Acarnania was a region of ancient central western Greece that lay along the Ionian Sea, west of Aetolia, with the Achelous River for a boundary, and north of the gulf of Calydon, which is the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth.
The founding tradition of Acarnania was that is was founded by a son of the king at Pylos, a Mycenaean city.
Roman Policy in Epirus and Acarnania in the Age of the Roman Conquest of...
Originally a tribal unit, Acarnania developed into a federal state with generals and other magistrates, a council, and an assembly by the late 5th century; its capital was at the city of Stratus.
Originally a tribal unit, Acarnania developed into a federal state with generals and other magistrates, a council, and an assembly by the late 5th century; its capital...
), it deprived Acarnania of Leucas, the capital of the revived confederacy, and compelled it to send hostages to Rome; but the confederacy, with its capital at Thyrrheum, survived until the Roman emperor Augustus incorporated many Acarnanians into his new city, Nicopolis Actia; the rest were included in the province of Achaea.
In fact, the alliance was extended in September with the participation of the klephts of Arta, Aitolia and Acarnania.
Moreover, Omer Vryoni which had returned from east-central Greece managed to win over the Albanian beys, but not the chieftains of Aitolia, Acarnania, Arta and Souli.
They all withdrew from the area of Arta but maintained their positions in Makrynoros in case of an Ottoman assault, which however, did not take place until the end of winter.
Nafpaktos, Latin: Naupactus or Naupactos (Italian, Lepanto; modern Greek, Ναύπακτος, rarely Epakto), is a town in the nomarchy of Acarnania and Aetolia, Greece, situated on a bay on the north side of the straits of Lepanto.
The harbour, once the best on the northern coast of the Corinthian Gulf, is now almost entirely choked up, and is accessible only to the smallest craft.
