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	Arta
		Arta prefecture is one of the least affluent regions of Greece and it is largely untouched by tourism.
		The city of Arta is built on the ruins of ancient Ambracia, and its history spans eons of diverse influences and foreign occupations.
		The modern city of Arta is intersected by the lazy waters of the river Arachthos and it is adorned by orange groves in the south, and olive groves in the North.
	www.greeklandscapes.com /greece/arta.html (768 words)

	Arta - LoveToKnow 1911
		EIS "Apra), a town of Greece, in the province of Arta, 59 m.
		This enters the Gulf of Arta some distance south of the town.
		In 1083 Arta was taken by Bohemund of Tarentum; in 1449 by the Turks; in 1688 by the Venetians.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Arta (288 words)

	... < G R E E C E >...
		It is situated on the left bank of the Arakhthos River north of the Gulf of Arta.
		A Byzantine bishopric, Arta survived a Norman seizure (1083) and the Greek despots of Epirus, passing in 1318 to the Orsini family of Cephalonia.
		The seat of a metropolitan bishop, Arta is a prosperous agricultural town surrounded by groves of orange, lemon, and citron trees.
	www.grecian.net /GREECE/epirus/arta/arta.htm (473 words)

	Ambracian Gulf
		The Ambracian Gulf is the humble dwelling of fishermen and farmers making a living among the rich nature of the shallow bay and the surrounding marshlands.
		The estuary around the Ambracian gulf with its twenty natural lagoons (two of the largest are the Logaro, and Tsokalio or Rodias lagoons) are the refuse for a wide variety of birds and aquatic animals many of which adorn the endangered species list with their perennial presence.
		The water of the gulf, while not the best in Greece, is a good cooling agent for the hot summer days, and those who relish wildlife and bird watching would do well to stroll around the shallow lagoons with binoculars and cameras handy.
	www.greeklandscapes.com /greece/ambracian/ambracian.html (638 words)

	Epirus (region) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was originally applied to the whole coast south to the Corinthian Gulf.
		The historical region of Epirus is generally regarded as extending from the Bay of Vlorë in Albania to the Gulf of Arta or Ambracian Gulf in Greece.
		Its eastern boundary is defined by the Pindus Mountains that form the spine of mainland Greece and separate Epirus from Macedonia and Thessaly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epirus_(region) (1860 words)

	The Walls of Nikopoli
		In 31 BC Octavian's General Agrippa defeated Antony and Cleopatra in an epic clash of some 800 vessels at the mouth of the Gulf of Arta (Amvrakikos Gulf) in north western Greece.
		Nikopolis was founded at the narrowest point of the peninsula which closes the Gulf of Arta.
		Today it is mainly known for its Turkish bridge on the river Arachthos, which is very similar to the bridge of Mostar, destroyed during the recent ethnic fights in former Yugoslavia.
	members.tripod.com /romeartlover/Nikopoli.html (798 words)

	Greece - Continental Greece
		Westward of the Pindus the boundary crosses transversely the valley of the Achelous, and the hills which separate it from the Gulf of Arta.
		To the south of the Gulf of Arta, which may not inaptly be described as a sort of lake communicating with the sea through a narrow opening, there are several sheets of water, the remains of an inland sea, silted up by the alluvial deposits of the Achelous.
		The entrance of the Gulf of Arta, between the Turkish Epirus and Greek Acarnania, does not present the saine phenomena, and its present width is about equal to that assigned to it by every ancient author; that is to say, about 1,000 yards.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles11/europe-12.shtml (3891 words)

	... < G R E E C E >...
		It extends from Valona Bay in Albania (northwest) to the Gulf of Arta (southeast); its hinterland extends eastward to the watershed of the Pindus Mountains.
		The Pindus Mountains separate Epirus from the Greek regions of Macedonia and Thessaly to the east.
		After the Aeacid monarchy ended in 232, the Epirote alliance was transformed from a coalition of tribes into a federal state, the Epirote League, with a parliament (synedrion).
	www.grecian.net /GREECE/epirus/epirus.htm (975 words)

	Active Service - Chapter IX.
		The opposing armies at Arta were engaged, principally in an artillery duel.
		Arta was on the road from Nikopolis into Greece.
		After night-fall they arrived at a town on the southern coast of the Gulf of Arta and the goaded dragoman was-thrust forth from the little inn into the street to find the first possible means of getting on to Arta.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/historical/ActiveService/chap9.html (4756 words)

	Arta
		Arta (Greek: Άρτα, Albanian: Artë)is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece.
		Much of the population lives in the west, within the Aous valley, the south and east of Arta, further southeast, the Athamanian mountains and the southeast with a few parts of the north are the least populated.
		The famous landmark which is over the Arachthos river is Arta's Old Bridge on its west side.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Regions/Arta.html (390 words)

	Vonizza
		Vonizza, is located on the southern coast of the Gulf of Arta (or Avramkikos Gulf), some ten miles to the east of Preveza.
		Because of its commanding view over the Gulf of Arta, the hill of Vonizza was fortified by the Byzantines and after them by the Turks and the Venetians.
		The shallow and closed waters of the Gulf of Arta give the impression of being part of a lake, rather than of a sea.
	members.tripod.com /romeartlover/Vonizza.html (453 words)

	Turkey In Europe - Albania And Epirus
		The crest of this latter runs at right angles to most of the ranges of Western Turkey, and although its culminating point is inferior in height to those of Slav Turkey, it is the point of junction between the Balkan and the mountain systems of Bosnia and Albania.
		Chamois and wild goats are still met with in the Skhar, as in the Pindus and Rhodope, and mentions an animal known to the Mirdits as a lucerbal, which appears to be a species of leopard.
		Arta, Yanina, and Prevesa are Hellenized towns, and only a few Mohammedan families there still speak Albanian.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles11/europe-21.shtml (5358 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Albania
		It is generally divided into three regions: Upper Albania, from the Montenegrin frontier to the river Shkumbi; Lower Albania, or Epirus, from the Shkumbi to the Gulf of Arta; and Eastern Albania, to the east of the Schar-Dagh chain.
		It is a mountainous and rugged territory, some of its peaks reaching a height of 8,500 feet, and has only one plain of note, that of Scutari (the ancient Scodra, `e Skódra), which holds the lake of the same name and is watered by its affluent, the Drin.
		Albania shares with Greece the peculiar phenomenon of subterranean rivers; the waters of the lake of Jamina flow through one of these underground channels into the Gulf of Arta, and this gave rise to the myth that here was the entrance to the infernal world of the ancient Greeks.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01253b.htm (2272 words)

	Hobby-O - Greece (The Diary of John Cam Hobhouse, edited by Peter Cochran)
		The view from several eminences commanding the sea, the Gulf, the theatre of action, the mountains of Albania to the south-east and north terminating the view.
		Mr D’Anville52 mentions that this country to the north of the Gulf is but little known, and it appears difficult of access.
		These certainly antique – Arta is conjectured to be on the site of the Ambrachia of Pyrrhus,217 and is on a peninsula formed by the river Arethon.
	www.hobby-o.com /greece.php (16926 words)

	Virtual Rome: Epirus caesari
		Nikopolis, Victory City (Paleopreveza) in Epirus (northwest Greece), on the hilly isthmus of a promontory closing the Ambracian Gulf (Gulf of Arta) from the north.
		By means of the largest of such amalgamations (synoecisms) ever recorded, Nicopolis was forcibly settled by people brought in from the decaying towns and villages of Ambracia, Amphilochia, Acarnania, Leucas (just outside the Gulf) and Aetolia, and statues and marble decorations were also removed from these places to embellish the new city.
		In addition, Nicopolis was the location of the Actian Games of the emperors in honor of Apollo, which are requently mentioned on the coinage for the city.
	www.magellannarfe.com /virtualrome/central/moesia/epirus/page.htm (483 words)

	CHAPTER XV. - GREECE AND EASTERN AFFAIRS.
		It was this financial experience of the Primates of the Morea which gave to the rebellion of the Greeks what little unity of organisation it exhibited in its earliest stage.
		On the north of the Gulf of Corinth the features of the communal system were less distinct than in the Morea.
		Maurokordatos, taking the command out of abler hands, pushed his troops forward to the neighbourhood of Arta, mismanaged everything, and after committing a most important post to Botzares, an Albanian chieftain of doubtful fidelity, left two small regiments exposed to the attack of the Turks in mass.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Europe/00000026.htm (18490 words)

	ACTIUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The final conflict was provoked by Antony, who is said to have been persuaded by Cleopatra to retire to Egypt and give battle to mask his retreat; but lack of provisions and the growing demoralization of his army would sufficiently account for his decision.
		The fleets met outside the gulf, each over 200 strong (the totals given by ancient authorities are very conflicting).
		Antony's heavy battleships endeavoured to close and crush the enemy with their artillery; Octavian's light and mobile craft made skilful use of skirmishing tactics.
	simplestartpage.com /2301_ACTIUM.HTML (329 words)

	Preveza, Greece
		The port of Préveza is attractively situated on the north side of the entrance, only 350m/380yd wide, to the Gulf of Árta (Ambracian Gulf).
		From this period dates the castle which is the only substantial remnant of the town's former fortifications, and which affords an excellent general view of the gulf.
		In 1797, under the treaty of Campo Formio, the town passed from the Venetians to the French, but in the following year the French forces were driven out by Ali Pasha of Ioánnina.
	www.planetware.com /greece/preveza-gr-epi-prev.htm (161 words)

	----- The region of Etoloakarnania -----
		Just a hop from Mitikas are the interesing ruins of the ancient city of Alizea, and there is a very pretty beach at Paliomagaza.
		At "Agios Petros" there are ruins of ancient temples and walls, while on the hill above a ruined medieval castle stands sentinel near the chapel of Divine Wisdom (12th c.) fashioned like a Byzantine fortress.
		The buildings of Amfilohia cover the slopes of two hills, providing a panoramic view towards the end of the gulf towards Arta.
	www.dilos.com /region/centgr/etoloak.html (1023 words)

	Amvrakikos Gulf (Preveza, Arta, Aitoloakarnania) - Important Bird Areas of Greece - Hellenic Ornithological Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Amvrakikos Gulf (Preveza, Arta, Aitoloakarnania) - Important Bird Areas of Greece - Hellenic Ornithological Society
		An extended network of brackish lagoons, sandy islets, saltflats, reedbeds and mudflats, formed in the northern side of Amvrakikos Gulf, from the deltas of Arachthos and Louros Rivers.
		The landscape is dominated by three rocky hills between the lagoons and the area is surrounded by hills to the north and east.
	www.ornithologiki.gr /en/sppe/en055.htm (338 words)

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		A Greek army and a Turkish army are looking at each other from the sides of the river at Arta-the river is there the frontier-and Nikopolis happens to be on the wrong side.
		But he reflected that for that day he had only attained the simple discovery that the approach to Nikopolis was surrounded with difficulties.
		CHAPTER X. The same afternoon Coleman and the dragoman rode up to Arta on their borrowed troop horses.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext00/tvsrv10.txt (22653 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Andrea Doria
		Absolute head of the naval forces of the house of Austria, he directed the maritime struggle against the Turks and the Barbary pirates; in 1532, just when Solyman threatened Hungary, Doria landed on the coast of Greece, took Coron and Patras, and even meditated an attack on Constantinople.
		In 1535 he co-operated in the siege of Tunis; in 1536 as head of the united squadron, made up of the ships of the pope, Venice, and the Knights of Malta, he surprised the famous Barbarossa in the Gulf of Arta and then allowed him to escape.
		Loaded with honours by Charles V, Doria retired to the territory of Genoa and lived in the beautiful palace he had built at Fassolo, where he dispensed royal hospitality to Charles V and Philip II.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05134b.htm (642 words)

	Ancient Nicopolis
		The city of Nicopolis was built to commemorate the Battle of Actium and to satisfy the military and trade needs of the region.
		It was located on the narrowest part of the peninsula, close to the Gulf of Arta, meaning it had two harbors, one in the gulf and one on the Ionian Sea.
		It was built in the typical Roman style of fortified towns, with four quarters and two main roads.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/JUL2004/Print/Nicopolis.htm (1888 words)

	C552 Conte di Cavour / New Major Unit / Nuova Unit?aggiore
		As an example, the aircraft carriers will be able to sail non stop to the Persian Gulf (distant from Taranto approximately 3,300 miles) using 50% of the boarded fuel.
		Absolute head of the naval forces of the house of Austria, he directed the maritime struggle against the Turks and the Barbary pirates in 1532.
		In 1536 as head of the united squadron, made up of the ships of the pope, Venice, and the Knights of Malta, he surprised the famous Barbarossa in the Gulf of Arta and then allowed him to escape.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/num.htm (1897 words)

	t32a-21 in sm97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		In addition to the GPS sites a dense temporary seismic network was installed around the Gulf of Arta to gain insight into the complex crustal structure and seismotectonic processes.
		The Katouna transform fault linking the active spreading zones of the Gulf of Arta and the Graben of Trikhonis north of the Gulf of Patras is clearly visible as a region of reduced P-wave velocity in the tomographic images.
		The western margin is particularly severely faulted in the northern parts of the Bombay coast and the Gulf of Cambay, the Cambay graben, Kutch and the offshore areas of the Arabian Sea with Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary basins.
	www.agu.org /cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=sm97&database=/data/epubs/wais/indexes/sm97/sm97&maxhits=200&="T32A-21" (12018 words)

	The Evil Eye by Mary Shelley : Arthur's Classic Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Thither then the hapless parents repaired; they embarked on board a small sacoleva, which dropt down the Gulf of Aegina, weathered the islands of Skvllo and Cerigo, and the extreme point of Tærus: favoured by prosperous gales, they made the desired port, and arrived at the hospitable mansion of old Camaraz.
		Misery is a more welcome visitant, when she comes in her darkest guise, and wraps us in perpetual fl, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.
		As a number of Moreots travelling together might attract too much attention, they resolved to land their comrades at different points, and travel separately into the interior of Albania: Yannina was their first place of rendezvous.
	arthurwendover.com /arthurs/horror/eviley10.html (6392 words)

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		We cannot assume that Marathon Bay in 490 BC was as it is today, but that the level of the Aegean dropped five or six feet by the time of Salamis a decade later.
		In Epirus Hammond cited six different points along the western coast of Greece, between the Gulf of Arta and the Gulf of Valona, where ancient remains can be seen beneath the surface of the sea.
		As late as the classical period an inlet of the Thermaic Gulf extended quite far west into what became the central plain, much as the sea stretches eastward today to form the Gulf of Salonica (see Map).
	www.indiana.edu /~ancmed/BORZA1.htm (9420 words)

	HyperWar: "The German Campaigns in the Balkans (Spring 1941)--Part III"
		After leaving Larisa according to plan, the heavily loaded, slow planes took two hours for the approach flight, covering the distance at an average speed of approximately 110 miles per hour.
		The airborne seizure of the Isthmus of Corinth had been coordinated with a drive across western Greece launched on 25 April.
		The 1st SS Motorized Infantry Regiment, assembled at Yannina, thrust along the western foothills of the Pindus Mountains via Arta to Mesolongion and crossed over to the Peloponnesus at Patras in an effort to gain access to the isthmus from the west.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/ETO/East/Balkans/Campaigns/Campaigns-3.html (11054 words)

	The Life of Lord Byron
		As we approached the gulf, or bay, of Cagliari, in Sardinia, a strong north wind came from the shore, and we had a whole disagreeable day of tacking, but next morning, it was Sunday, we found ourselves at anchor near the mole, where we landed.
		In the qualifications of this essential servant, the travellers were not fortunate—he never lost an opportunity of pilfering;—he was, however, zealous, bustling, and talkative, and withal good-humoured; and, having his mind intent on one object—making money—was never lazy nor drunken, negligent nor unprepared.
		In the morning of the 3rd of October they set out for Arta, with ten horses; four for themselves and servants, four for their luggage, and two for two soldiers whom they were induced to take with them as guards.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/0/4/2/10421/10421-h/10421-h.htm (16708 words)

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