The main settlement in the area of the fashionable town dates into the 9th century B.C. Ambracia was founded to be a Corinthian colony inside the seventh century B.C. In 294 BC, right after forty three a long time of semi-autonomy below Macedonian suzerainty, Ambracia was presented to Pyrrhus, king of the Molossians and of Epirus, who manufactured