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
- Alyzeia founded by Corinthians[1][2] polis
- Ambracia founded by Corinthians[1][2] 650 BC polis
- Ambrakos[3] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Amphilochia[4][5]
- Anaktorion founded by Corinthians[1][6] and Corcyrans 650 BC polis
- Ancient Paleros[7][8] or Palairos polis
- Argos (Acarnania) founded by Ambrakians[1][9] polis
- Astakos founded by Corinthians[10]
- Coronta[11]
- Dioryktos[3] pre Hellenistic settlement
- Echinos (polis)[12] polis
- Ellomenon[3] pre Hellenistic settlement
- Euboia (Acarnania)[3] pre Hellenistic
- Euripos[12] polis
- Herakleia (Acarnania)[12] polis
- Hyporeiai[13] polis
- Idomene (polis)[1] pre Hellenistic fortress & sanctuary
- Ithaka (polis)[13] polis
- Ithoria[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Korkyra (Acarnania) founded by Corinthians[1] 706 BC
- Koronta[14] polis
- Kraneia[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Kranioi[15] polis
- Krenai[1] pre Hellenistic
- Leukas (polis) or Leucas (Epirus) founded by Corinthians[1][16] 650 BC polis
- Limnaia[17] polis
- Matropolis[17] polis
- Medion (polis)[18] polis
- Metropolis (polis)[1] pre Hellenistic
- Nellos[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Nerikos[10] pre Hellenistic
- Nerikos[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Nesos[1] pre Hellenistic harbour
- Nicopolis founded by Octavian founded 31 BC[19]
- Oiniadai[18] polis
- Olpai[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Palaerus[20]
- Paleis[21] polis
- Phara[22] polis
- Phoitiai[22] polis
- Pronnoi[22] polis
- Ptychia[1] pre Hellenistic
- Same (polis)[23] polis
- Sauria (polis)[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
- Sollion or Sollium founded by Corinthians[1] polis
- Stratos (polis)[24] polis
- Thyrreion[16] polis
- Torybeia[25] polis
- Zakynthos (polis) founded by Achaians[1] polis
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 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.
- 1 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 354
- 1 2 3 4 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
- ↑ 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. ..."
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- 1 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 340
- ↑ Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
- 1 2 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 359
- 1 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 360
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- 1 2 Encyclopedia of ancient Greece by Nigel Guy Wilson,2006,ISBN 0-415-97334-1,page 4
- 1 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 366
- 1 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 367
- ↑ 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 ..."
- ↑ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=palaerus-geo
- ↑ 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
- 1 2 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 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
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