 Today it is an important administrative and cultural centre on the Ionian Coast and within its province.Epizephyrian Locris (Greek Ἐπιζεφύριοι Λοκροί; from ἐπί "epi", "on", Ζέφυρος ("Zephyros"), West Wind, and the plural of Λοκρός, "Lokros", "a Locrian," thus "The Western Locrians") was founded about 680 BC on the Italian shore of the Ionian Sea, near modern Capo Zefirio, by the Locrians, apparently by Opuntii (East Locrians) from the city of Opus, but including Ozolae (West Locrians) and Lacedaemonians.Its Latin name, "Locri", is the plural of the Latin "Locrus", which was used both to mean an inhabitant of Locris and the eponymous ancestor of the Locrians.