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]

Cities[edit]

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[edit]

^ ^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.
^ ^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
^ ^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
^ 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^{[permanent dead link]}
^ 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
^ ^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
^ Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
^ ^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
^ ^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
^ 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
^ ^a ^b Encyclopedia of ancient Greece by Nigel Guy Wilson,2006,ISBN 0-415-97334-1,page 4
^ ^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
^ ^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
^ 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 ..."
^ "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PALAERUS". perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
^ 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
^ ^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
^ 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

[Classical_Poleis_2005,_page_353-1] ^ ^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.

[Classical_Poleis_2005,_page_354-2] 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

[Classical_Poleis_2005,_page_352-3] 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 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

[Classical_Poleis_2005,_page_340-10] 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

[Classical_Poleis_2005,_page_359-12] 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

[Classical_Poleis_2005,_page_360-13] 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

[Nigel_Guy_Wilson_2006,_page_4-16] Encyclopedia of ancient Greece by Nigel Guy Wilson,2006,ISBN 0-415-97334-1,page 4

[Classical_Poleis_2005,_page_366-17] 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

[Classical_Poleis_2005,_page_367-18] 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

[Classical_Poleis_2005,_page_370-22] 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

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