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.
Map of ancient Acarnania

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
  • Amphilochian Argos founded by Ambrakians[1][9] polis
  • Astakos founded by Corinthians[10]
  • Coronta[11]
  • Dioryktos[3] pre Hellenistic settlement
  • Echinus (Acarnania)[12] polis
  • Ellomenon[3] pre Hellenistic settlement
  • Euboia (Acarnania)[3] pre Hellenistic
  • Euripus_(Acarnania)[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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t 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. ^ a b 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
  3. ^ a b c d 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
  4. ^ 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, ..."
  5. ^ 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. ..."
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ Location in Acarnania[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ a b 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
  11. ^ Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
  12. ^ a b c 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
  13. ^ a b 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
  14. ^ 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
  15. ^ 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
  16. ^ a b Encyclopedia of ancient Greece by Nigel Guy Wilson,2006,ISBN 0-415-97334-1,page 4
  17. ^ a b 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
  18. ^ a b 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
  19. ^ 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 ..."
  20. ^ "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PALAERUS". perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  21. ^ 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
  22. ^ a b c 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
  23. ^ 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
  24. ^ 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
  25. ^ 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