Epirotikos Agon

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Epirotikos Agon is one of the oldest newspapers published in Greece.Its headquarters are in Ioannina,Epirus.

[edit] History

It was set up in 1923 in the region of Epirus and was first published with the title “Thunder”. The next year it was retitled to “Epirotikos Echo” until 1927, when it took the title “Epirotikos Agon” which has had until now.

During the past 78 years the newspaper has been circulating daily withour failure. The only exception was during the Second World War, when the local newspapers were forced for two years to publish a common “News Bulletin”.

A second exception occurred during the period of 1973 to 1974 when the dictatorship in Greece stopped the circulation of the newspaper for some time, due to anti-dictatorship editions. During these 78 years there have been two publishers who have been connected more than anybody else with the publishing of the newspaper. Efthimios Tzallas was publisher until 1968, and after him his son Eleftherios became publisher and head of the newspaper until 1983.

In 2000 Epirotikos Agon celebrated it's 20,000 newspaper publication, making a special edition for old colleagues, people who worked for it, subscribers and readers, to “testify” their own experience through the history of their favourite newspaper.