Acarnanie
The Acarnanie (in Greek old Ἀκαρνανία / Akarnanía ) is a Western area of the ancient Greece, delimited in north by the Golfe ambracic, in the west and south-west by the Ionian Mer. In the east, the river Achéloos separates it from the Étolie.
According to the Greek Mythology, it would have been founded by Acarnan, wire of Alcméon. At seventh century BC, the Corinthiens base colonies on the coast. Moved away from Greece of the cities, Acarnanie passes to the eyes of the other Greeks for a region semi-barbarian. Thucydide indicates that she saw, following the example Locride ozolienne and of Étolie, “with the old manner” (I, V, 3), i.e. at Pirate laughs and armed robbery. It emerges with as stake of battle between Sparte and Athens, during the Peloponnesian War.
Its principal cities are Stratos and Leucade.
When in 1204 the Fourth crusade eclipse the capacity of the Byzantine Empire, Acarnanie passes under the domination of the Despotat d' Epire. In 1480, it is included in the Ottoman Empire. It belongs to the modern Greek state since 1832.
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