Peta, Greece

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Municipality of Peta
Δήμος Πέτα
Dimos Peta
Statistics
Prefecture: Arta
Province: none
Municipality: Peta (seat)
Municipal district: 'Peta (seat)
Number of municipal districts: 3 (see below)
Location:
Latitude:
Longitude:
39.1646 (39° 9' 51") N
20.0345 (20° 2' 5") E
Population: (2001)
-Municipality (Change)
-Town
-Municipal district
-Percent of the munucipal district-Percent of the municipality
-Percent of the prefecture
4,904 (+133 or +2.79% from 1991)
1,916
3,896
49.18%
39.07%
6.28%
Altitude:
 -lowest:
 -centre:
Ambracian Gulf
132 m
about 600 to 800 m east
Postal code: GR-442 00
Car designation: AT

Peta (Greek: Πέτα) is a municipality in the prefecture of Arta, Greece. Population 4,904 (2001). Its 2001 population was 1,916 for the town, 3,896 for the municipal district and 4,904 for the municipality. Sellades is linked with the GR-30 (Volos - Farsala - Karditsa - Arta) connecting the GR-30 ((Patras - )Antirrio - Agrinio - Arta - Ioannina) along with Ioannina and the Pindus mountains along with Karditsa. Peta is located north of Amfilochia, northeast of Arta, south-southeast Ioannina and east of Preveza. The Arachthos River and its reservoir lies to the northwest.

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[edit] Subdivisions

  • Agios Dimitrios
  • Amfithea
  • Ano Agioi Anargyroi
  • Kleisto
  • Neochoraki
  • Pournari

[edit] Municipal districts

  • Markinada
    • Diasella
    • Megkla
    • Melates
    • Zygos
  • Megarchi

[edit] Population

Year Village population Change Municipal population Change Percent of the municipal district Percent of the municipality Percent of the prefecture
1981 3,515 - - - - - - -
1991 1,807 -1,708 or -48.59% - 4,771 - - - -
2001 1,916 +89 or +49.26% 3,896 4,904 +133 or +2.79% 49.18% 39.07% (village)
79.45%		 6.28%

[edit] History

Peta was ruled by the Ottomans with some interruption, the town was affected by the Greek War of Independence and lost their victory to become a part of Greece. The Turks recaptured the village and continued ruling the region until 1881 with a brief Greek occupation in the 1850s but it was reconquered.

Peta finally joined Greece during the liberation of the modern southeastern Arta which included most of Thessaly that ended the Ottoman Turkish rule in 1881 and was one of the few towns to annex early to Greece, the tract of land northwest of Peta remained in Ottoman hands until the Balkan Wars of 1913. Its economy slowly improved.

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt. The population lost by nearly half between 1981 and 1991. The population slowly climbed between the 1991 and the 2001 censuses.

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

Peta 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

North: Athamania Northeast: Irakleia
West: Vlacherna
 Kompoti East: Georgios Karaiskakis
Southwest: Arta South: Kompoti Southeast: Kompoti
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