Kompoti

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Municipality of Kompoti
Δήμος Κομποτίου
Dimos Kompotou
Statistics
Prefecture: Arta
Province: none
Municipality: Kompoti (seat)
Municipal district: 'Kompoti (seat)
Number of municipal districts: 3 (see below)
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
39.106 (39° 6' 3") N
20.0842 (20° 5' 3") E
Population: (2001)
-Municipality (Change)
-Town
-Municipal district
-Percent of the munucipal district-Percent of the municipality
-Percent of the prefecture
3,485 (-171 or -18.55% from 1991)
2,185
2,357
90.29%
61.06%
2.72%
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
Ambracian Gulf
87 m
about 600 to 800 m east
Postal code: GR-440 04
Car designation: AT

Kompoti, also Komboti and Koboti (Greek, Modern: Κομπότι) is a municipality in the prefecture of Arta, Greece. Its 2001 population was 2,128 for the town, 2,385 for the municipa; district and 3,485 for the municipality. Kompoti is linked with the road connecting the GR-5/E55 ((Patras - )Antirrio - Agrinio - Arta - Ioannina) and the Pindus mountains. Kompoti is located north of Amfilochia and Agrinio, east-northeast of Preveza and southeast of Arta. The Ambracian Gulf is to the south

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[edit] Subdivisions

  • Agios Nikolaos

[edit] Municipal districts

[edit] Population

Year Village population Change Municipal population Change Percent of the municipal district Percent of the municipality Percent of the prefecture
1981 2,002 - - - - - - -
1991 2,050 +48 or +2.4% - 3,287 - - - -
2001 2,128 +178 or +8.68% 2,357 3,485 +198 or +6.02% 90.29% 61.06% 2.72%

[edit] History

Kompoti did not join Greece until the liberation of the modern southeastern Arta which included most of Thessaly in 1881 and was one of the few towns to annex early to Greece. Its economy slowly improved after the end of the Turkish rule over the modern southeastern Arta and later Epirus.

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.

[edit] Other

Kompoti has a few schools, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office, and a square (plateia), its nearest hospital and university are in the city of Ioannina.

[edit] External links

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Northwest: Arta North: Peta Northeast: Georgios Karaiskakis
West: Arachthos
 Kompoti East: Georgios Karaiskakis and Menidi in the Etoloakarnania prefecture
South: Ambracian Gulf
Municipal districts of the municipality of Kompoti
Foteino | Kompoti (Agios Nikolaos) | Sellades (Alonia)
Greece | Epirus | Arta | Kompoti
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Municipalities and Communities of the Arta Prefecture
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Coordinates: 39°06′N, 21°05′E

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