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10 unusual facts about Acarnania


Acarnania

The Acarnanians later sided with Boeotia in their fight against Sparta, and with Athens against Philip II of Macedon at Chaeronea.

390 BC, the cities of Acarnania surrendered to the Spartans under King Agesilaus, and continued to be Spartan allies until joining the Second Athenian Empire in 375 BC.

Inchoatia megdova

Range: The type locality is "Triklonon 5.5 km Richtung Chalkiopuli"; Greece, West Greece, Aetolia-Acarnania: Triklono, 5.5 km to Chalkiopouli.

Kandyla

Kandila, Aetolia-Acarnania, a village in the municipal unit Alyzia, Aetolia-Acarnania

Maurice Spata

Sgouros did not retain the town, instead his nephew Maurice Spata took over Arta and Sgouros took over Angelokastron.

Napoleon Zervas

EOEA's activities were largely confined to Epirus, but Zervas had some control of Aetolia-Acarnania, in the Valtos area.

Papadates, Aetolia-Acarnania

Papadates is located 12 klm away from the city of Agrinio, on the foothills of Arakynthos mountain and is one of the villages surrounding Lake Trichonida, the biggest Greek natural lake.

Pavlos Karakostas

Pavlos Karakostas (Παύλος Καρακώστας, 1937-2002) was a Greek author from Perdikaki Valtou (Acarnania - Greece).

Philip I, Prince of Taranto

Upon the death of Nikephoros (c. 1297), Philip took the title of "Despot of Romania", claiming Epirus, Aetolia, Acarnania, and Vlachia.

Sgouros Bova Spata

Sgouros did not retain the town, instead his nephew Maurice Spata took over Arta and Sgouros took over Angelokastron.


426 BC

However when, later in the year, Ambracia invades Acarnania, and the Acarnanians seek help from Demosthenes, who is patrolling the Ionian Sea coast with twenty Athenian ships, he reaches the Athenian naval base in the Gulf of Corinth at Naupactus and secures it just in time to defend it against a large Spartan army from Delphi under Eurylochus which has come to assist the Ambraciots.

Aristomenes of Alyzia

Aristomenes, son of Menneas, was a native of the city of Alyzia in Acarnania, Greece.

Athanasios Tzoganis

Born in Skourtou, Aetolia-Acarnania, he entered the Hellenic Air Force Academy in 1959 and graduated first in his class in 1962.

Central Greece

Some important and well known rivers of Central Greece are Acheloos in Aetolia-Acarnania which is the second longest of the country, Spercheios in Phthiotis, Evenus in Aetolia-Acarnania and Mornos in Phocis.

Doliche

Doliche, also called Dulichium, the chief island of the Echinades, off the coast of Acarnania, Greece

Nicopolis

Many inhabitants of the surrounding areas – Kassopaia, Ambracia, parts of Acarnania (including Leukas, Palairos, Amphilochikon, Calydon, and Lysimachia) and western Aetolia – were forced to relocate to the new city.

Pigadaki

Pigadaki, a subdivision of Sparto in the municipality of Amfilochia, Aetolia-Acarnania