List of cities in ancient Acarnania
Acarnania is a region of western Greece. Below is a list of the cities that existed in Acarnania in ancient times.[1]
The ancient Region of Acarnania, Greece.
Cities
- Medion (polis)[2] polis
- Oiniadai[2] polis
- Paleis[3] polis
- Phara[4] polis
- Phoitiai[4] polis
- Pronnoi[4] polis
- Same (polis)[5] polis
- Stratos (polis)[6] polis
- Torybeia[7] polis
- Amphilochia[8][9]
- Hyporeiai[10] polis
- Ithaka (polis)[10] polis
- Alyzeia founded by Corinthians[1][11] polis
- Kranioi[12] polis
- Koronta[13] polis
- Echinos (polis)[14] polis
- Euripos[14] polis
- Herakleia (Acarnania)[14] polis
- Ambracia founded by Corinthians[1][11] 650 BC polis
- Limnaia[15] polis
- Matropolis[15] polis
- Anaktorion founded by Corinthians[1][16] and Corcyrans 650 BC polis
- Thyrreion[17] polis
- Nerikos[18] pre Hellenistic
- Argos (Acarnania) founded by Ambrakians[1][19] polis
- Astakos founded by Corinthians[18]
- Korkyra (Acarnania) founded by Corinthians[1] 706 BC
- Leukas (polis) or Leucas (Epirus) founded by Corinthians[1][17] 650 BC polis
- Sollion or Sollium founded by Corinthians[1] polis
- Nicopolis founded by Octavian founded 31 BC[20]
- Zakynthos (polis) founded by Achaians[1] polis
- Ancient Paleros[21][22] or Palairos polis
- Ambrakos[23] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Dioryktos[23] pre Hellenistic settlement
- Ellomenon[23] pre Hellenistic settlement
- Euboia (Acarnania)[23] pre Hellenistic
- Idomene (polis)[1] pre Hellenistic fortress & sanctuary
- Ithoria[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Kraneia[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Krenai[1] pre Hellenistic
- Sauria (polis)[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Metropolis (polis)[1] pre Hellenistic
- Nellos[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Nerikos[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Nesos[1] pre Hellenistic harbour
- Olpai[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Ptychia[1] pre Hellenistic
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 367
- ↑ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 369
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 370
- ↑ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 371
- ↑ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 372
- ↑ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 373
- ↑ Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 (Hesperia Supplement) (v. 1) by James Wiseman and Konstantinos Zachos,2003,page 3,"... forced removal to Nikopolis of populations from other cities of Epirus, Acarnania, Leucas, Amphilochia, and Aetolia, ..."
- ↑ Battles of the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Chronological Compendium of 667 Battles to 31Bc, from the Historians of the Ancient World (Greenhill Historic Series) by John Drogo Montagu,2000,Illustrated,Index: "... 9, 179 Idomene (426), name given to two peaks in Amphilochia (Epirus), W Greece. ..."
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 360
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 354
- ↑ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 364
- ↑ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 363
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 359
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 366
- ↑ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 356
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Encyclopedia of ancient Greece by Nigel Guy Wilson,2006,ISBN 0-415-97334-1,page 4
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 340
- ↑ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 357
- ↑ The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth,2003,page 10: "... just outside the gulf, in which he was defeated by *Octavian (2 September). A few years later, when Octavian founded *Nicopolis (3) on the opposite (northern) side of the strait, he ..."
- ↑ Location in Acarnania
- ↑ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 368
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 352