Acarnania

The regions of Acarnania and Aetolia as well as the islands of Kephalonia and Ithaca on a map from the 19th century.

Akarnania ( Greek Ακαρνανία Akarnanía ) is a mountainous country in western Greece between the Ambracian Gulf and the Acheloos . It extends up to 1600 m above sea level. In ancient times, the main places in Akarnania were Oiniadai at the mouth of the Acheloos and further upstream Stratos .

Antiquity

During the Peloponnesian War and later in the 4th century BC Acarnania was mostly allied with Athens , a position it had in 429 BC. At the battle of Stratos and 426 BC. Claimed in the battle of Olpai . Before it happened in the 2nd century BC BC was conquered by the Roman Empire , it had to defend itself from the Aetolian League and Epirus .

Middle Ages and Modern Times

It was part of the Byzantine Empire until 1204 , then it belonged to the Despotate of Epirus , and from 1480 to the Ottoman Empire . Akarnania has been part of today's Greece since 1832 and, as a province, was part of the Aetolia-Akarnania prefecture until 2010 , today the Aetolia-Akarnania district.

literature

• Percy Berktold et al. a. (Ed.): Akarnanien - A landscape in ancient Greece (= studies on the history of north-west Greece, vol. 1). Ergon-Verlag, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-928034-71-5 .
• Franziska Lang u. a. (Ed.): Interdisciplinary research in Akarnanien . Habelt-Verlag, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7749-3877-9
• Walther Judeich : Akarnania . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1150-1157.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lexicon of History . Orbis, 2001, ISBN 3-572-01285-6 , pp. 28 .