| Archangelos Αρχάγγελος |
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| Country: | Greece |
| Region: | Epirus |
| Regional unit: | Preveza |
| Municipality: | Preveza |
| Municipal unit: | Zalongo |
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| - Population: | 345 |
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| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
| Auto: | ΡΖ |
Archangelos (Greek: Αρχάγγελος) is a village of Preveza regional unit, in the region 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 Nea Sinopi community of the Zalongo municipal unit. 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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Archangelos is situated about 19 km north of Preveza, 85 km south of Igoumenitsa, 30 km west of Arta and 90 km southwest of Ioannina.
| Year | Population |
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| 1991 | 356 |
| 2001 | 345 |
It has a beach located 7 km along with the historic rock of Zalongo and the rubbles of ancient Kassopi (Κασσώπη).
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
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.