Archangelos, Preveza
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| Archangelos Αρχάγγελος |
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 Distant view of Archangelos |
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| Prefecture: | Preveza |
| Province: | Nikopoli and Parga |
| Municipality: | Zalogos |
| Municipal district: | Nea Sinopi |
| Number of municipal districts: | 2 (Archangelos and Nea Sinopi) |
| Location: Latitude: Longitude: |
39.1018 (39° 6' 10") N 20.076 (20° 4' 44") E |
| Population: (2001) -Municipality (Change) -Town -Municipal district -Percent of the munucipal district-Percent of the municipality -Percent of the prefecture |
345 (--11 or -2.09% from 1991) 754 33.24% 6.84% |
| Altitude: -lowest: -centre: |
Ionian Sea (west) 40 m about 200 to 250 m (east) |
| Postal code: | GR-481 00 |
| Car designation: | PZ |
Archangelos (in Greek: Αρχάγγελος) is a village of Preveza, in the periphery of Epirus, in western Greece. It is located about 19 kilometers north of the town of Preveza, at an elevation of 40 meters. Archangelos belongs to the Zalogo municipality. Its population, according to the 1991 census was at 356, number which is estimated to have increased at around 500, until 2006.
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[edit] Location
Archangelos is cited at about 19 km north of Preveza, 85 km south of Igoumenitsa, 30 km west of Arta, Greece and 90 km southwest of Ioannina.
[edit] Population
| Year | Village population | Change | Percent of the municipal district | Percent of the municipality |
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| 1991 | 356 | - | - | - |
| 2001 | 345 | -11 or -2.09% | 33.24% | 6.84% |
[edit] Around Archangelos
It has a beach located 7 km along with the historic rock of Zalogo and the rubbles of ancient Kassopi (Κασσώπη).
[edit] History
Archangelos was founded in 1922, just after the Asia Minor Catastrophe (see: Population exchange between Greece and Turkey), when Greek population left their millennia old homelands in Minor Asia and Pontus, and forced to return to Greece. Many of them were from a village 46 km west-northwest of modern Sinop.
Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.ntff
[edit] The Roman aqueduct
In Archangelos, there are some remains of the Roman aqueduct of Nikopolis. The Roman aqueduct, 50 km long, carried the water from the springs of Louros to two cisterns in the Nymphaeum of Nikopolis, was constructed after the foundation of Nikopolis by Octavianus Augustus for the water supply of the new city.
[edit] Other
Archangelos has a school, a few churches, banks, a post office, and a square (plateia), its nearest lyceum (middle school) and gymnasium (secondary school) are in the municipal seat.
