Pieris
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Pieris can refer to:
- Organisms
- Pieris (plant) is the andromeda or fetterbush genus in the plant family Ericaceae
- Pieris (butterfly), described by Franz Paula von Schrank in 1801, is the garden white genus in the butterfly family Pieridae
- Pieris, described by Hübner around 1819, is a synonym of the genus Pierella in the butterfly family Nymphalidae
- Places
- Pieris, an hamlet of San Canzian d'Isonzo (Italy)
- Pieria (Πιερία) or Pieris, a region in Greece
- Pieris (Πιερίς), an ancient name of the Greek settlement Kondariotissa
- Pieres, an ancient Thracian tribe living in the Pieria region
- Pieris, an ancient region in East Macedonia, where the Pieres were relocated
- Piereis (Πιερείς) municipality in Kavala Prefecture
[edit] See also
- Peiris, surname
- Pierian Spring, the metaphorical source of knowledge about art and science.
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