| Foteino Φωτεινό |
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Foteino
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| Country: | Greece |
| Region: | Epirus |
| Regional unit: | Arta |
| Municipality: | Nikolaos Skoufas |
| Municipal unit: | Kompoti |
| Population statistics (as of 2001) | |
| - Area: | 8.953 km2 (3 sq mi) |
| - Density: | 0 /km2 (0 /sq mi) |
| Community | |
| - Population: | 374 |
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| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
| Postal: | 471 00 |
| Telephone: | 26810 |
Foteino (Greek: Φωτεινό []) is a village (community) in the municipal unit of Kompoti in the regional unit of Arta, Greece. In 2001 its population was 374.
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The old name of the village, Hósiana (Greek: Χώσιανα), appears for the first time in 1696, in a historic document in which the villages of Arta asked the Venetian Republic for protection from pirates.[1]
In 1899, a new church was built by destroying a small old one, dating to the early 12th century[2]
The village was constituted as a separate commune with the 186/10.08.1947 government gazette (ΦΕΚ). Until then it was part of the commune of Ano-Petra.[3] With ΦΕΚ 195/23.07.1953, its name changed from Hosiana to Fotino,[4] and with law 2539/1997, as part of the Kapodistrias reforms, the commune became a municipal district of the municipality of Kompoti.
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