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Makyneia
Makyneia ( el, Μακύνεια) is a seaside village and a community in Nafpaktia, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. According to the 2011 census, the village had 377 inhabitants, and the community, which also includes the villages Agrapidokampos, Agios Polykarpos and Riza, 563 inhabitants. Makyneia is situated on the northeast coast of the Gulf of Patras, 4.5 km west of Antirrio. The Greek National Road 5 (Patras-Antirrio-Agrinio-Ioannina), which has recently been bypassed by the Motorway 5 (also the E55), passes through the village. History Settlement at Makyneia, under various names, including the ancient town of Macynia, dates back to the ancient times, may be as early as the Homeric age. It was a town of western Locris and later Aetolia Aetolia ( el, Αἰτωλία, Aἰtōlía) is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional units of Greece, regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania. Geography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agrapidokampos
Agrapidokampos ( el, Αγραπιδόκαμπος) is a settlement forming part of the community of Makyneia in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. At the 2011 census, it had 7 inhabitants. The village is located 5 km north of Makyneia, 8 km northwest of Antirrio and 10 km west of Nafpaktos. History The name of the village literally means the "field of wild pears". Ancient ruins have been preserved on the ridge between Agrapidokampos and Velvina, Aetolia-Acarnania, Velvina, in the area named Elliniko.Prasino+Ble (Green+Blue) - Periodic edition for the environment , Embros Newspaper, July–August 2009 Agrapidokampos was a village of the earlier municipality of Nafpaktos until 1912, when it became part of the community of Riza (Makyneia). In 1989, Agrapidokampos became par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riza, Aetolia-Acarnania
Riza ( el, Ρίζα meaning ''roots'', outside Aetolia-Acarnania: Riza Nafpaktias) is a settlement in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. It is part of the community of Makyneia, within the municipality of Nafpaktia. According to 2011 census, it had 160 inhabitants. Geography Riza is situated at the foot of the mountain Klokova, near the northeast coast of the Gulf of Patras, 6 km northwest of Antirrio. Its elevation is 50 m amsl. The Greek National Road 5 (Antirrio-Agrinio-Ioannina), which has recently been bypassed by the Motorway 5, passes through the village. In the vicinity there is a thermal spring where the water heats to 37 °C at 255 m depth and is rich in hydrogen sulfide. History Riza was an independent community between 1912 and 1916. It was part of the community of Mamako (after 1980: Makyneia) between 1916 and 1989, when it became part of the municipality Antirrio. It became part of Nafpaktia Nafpaktia ( el, Ναυπακτία), Latinized Naupactia, is the histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antirrio
Antirrio ( el, links=no, Αντίρριο, pronounced , la, links=no, Antirrhium) is a town and a former municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nafpaktia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 50.794 km2. It is situated on the north side of the narrow (2.4 km) Strait of Rio, which separates the Gulf of Patras in the west from the Gulf of Corinth in the east. Since August 2004 the Rio–Antirrio bridge connects northwestern Greece with the Peloponnese. The name Antirrio means "opposite Rio". Subdivisions The municipal unit Antirrio is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): *Antirrio (Antirrio, Karaoulia, Myrtia, Spartorachi) *Makyneia (Makyneia, Agios Polykarpos, Agrapidokampos, Riza) *Molykreio (Molykreio, Ano Platanitis, Fragkaiika) Historical population Geography Antirrio is situated at the western entrance of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agios Polykarpos, Aetolia-Acarnania
Agios Polykarpos ( el, Άγιος Πολύκαρπος) is a seaside settlement in Nafpaktia, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece, located 6 km west of Antirrio and 15 km southwest of Nafpaktos. According to the 2011 census, it had 19 inhabitants. Description The settlement is named after the church of Saint Polycarpus. In 1981, Agios Polykarpos became a settlement of the community of Makyneia. In 1989, Agios Polykarpos became part of the municipality of Antirrio, which is a municipal unit of the municipality of Nafpaktia Nafpaktia ( el, Ναυπακτία), Latinized Naupactia, is the historical name for the region around the port town of Nafpaktos (Naupactus) in Central Greece. It is also the name of a municipality in the Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit, West G ... since 2011. Historical population References {{Reflist Populated places in Aetolia-Acarnania Nafpaktia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macynia
Macynia or Makynia ( grc, Μακυνία), Macyna or Makyna (Μακύνα),Plutarch ''Quaest. Graec.'' 15 or Macyneia or Makyneia (Μακύνεια), was a coastal town of ancient Aetolia at the foot of the eastern slope of Mount Taphiassus. According to Strabo it was built after the return of the Heraclidae into Peloponnesus. It is called a town of the Ozolian Locrians by the poet Archytas of Amphissa, who describes it in a hexameter line: "the grape-clad, perfume-breathing, lovely Macȳna." It is also mentioned in an epigram of Alcaeus of Messene, who was a contemporary of Philip V of Macedon. Pliny mentions a mountain Macynium, which must have been part of Mount Taphiassus, near Macynia, unless it is indeed a mistake for the town. Its site is tentatively located near the modern Makyneia Makyneia ( el, Μακύνεια) is a seaside village and a community in Nafpaktia, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. According to the 2011 census, the village had 377 inhabitants, and the community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Greece
Western Greece Region ( el, Περιφέρεια Δυτικής Ελλάδας, translit=Periféria Dhitikís Elládhas, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It comprises the western part of continental Greece and the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It occupies an area of and its population is, according to the 2011 census, at 679,796 inhabitants. The capital of the Western Greece is Patras, the third-largest-city in the country with a population of about 280,000 inhabitants. The NUTS 2 code for the region of Western Greece is EL63. Administration The region of Western Greece was established in the 1987 administrative reform. With the 2010 Kallikratis plan, its powers and authority were redefined and extended. Along with Peloponnese and the Ionian Islands regions, it is supervised by the Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands based at Patras. The region is based at Patras and is divided into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Route E55
European route E55 is an European Route, E-route. It passes through the following cities: Helsingborg … Helsingør – Copenhagen – Køge – Vordingborg – Nykøbing Falster – Gedser … Rostock – Berlin – Lübbenau – Dresden – Teplice – Prague – Tábor – Linz – Salzburg – Villach – Tarvisio – Udine – Palmanova – Venice – Ravenna – Cesena – Rimini – Fano – Ancona – Pescara – Canosa di Puglia – Bari – Brindisi … Igoumenitsa – Preveza – Rio, Greece, Rhion – Patras, Patrai – Pyrgos, Elis, Pyrgos – Kalamata, Kalamáta. From Helsingborg, the route was supposed to continue northward through Sweden and into Finland, but a decision was made to keep the European route E4, E4 designation in Sweden, formerly used for a European route from Lisbon to Helsinki. E55 is not and has not been signposted in Sweden. Since 2018 E55 is not signposted between Helsingør and Køge in Denmark, but is signposted south of Køge.Google Streetvie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Aetolia-Acarnania
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Aetolia
Aetolia ( el, Αἰτωλία, Aἰtōlía) is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania. Geography The Achelous River separates Aetolia from Acarnania to the west; on the north it had boundaries with Epirus and Thessaly; on the east with the Ozolian Locrians; and on the south the entrance to the Corinthian Gulf defined the limits of Aetolia. In classical times Aetolia comprised two parts: "Old Aetolia" ( el, Παλιά Αιτωλία, Paliá Aitolía) in the west, from the Achelous to the Evenus and Calydon; and "New Aetolia" ( el, Νέα Αιτωλία, Néa Aitolía) or "Acquired Aetolia" ( el, Αἰτωλία Ἐπίκτητος, Aitolía Epíktitos) in the east, from the Evenus and Calydon to the Ozolian Locrians. The country has a level and fruitful coastal region, but an unproductive and mountainous interior. The mountains contained many wild beasts, and acquired fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locris Ozolia
Ozolian Locris ( grc, Ὀζολία Λοκρίς) or Hesperian Locris ( grc, Λοκρίς Ἑσπερία, 3=Western Locris) was a region in Ancient Greece, inhabited by the Ozolian Locrians ( grc-gre, Ὀζολοὶ Λοκροί; la, Locri Ozoli) a tribe of the Locrians, upon the Corinthian Gulf, bounded on the north by Doris, on the east by Phocis, and on the west by Aetolia. Name Various etymologies were proposed by the ancients about the origin of the name of the region's inhabitants, the ''Ozolai'' (). Some derived it from the Greek verb (''ozein'') which means "to smell". According to Strabo, this version could be explained by the stench arising from a spring at the foot of Mount Taphiassus, beneath which Nessus and other centaurs had been buried, while according to Plutarch, that was due to the asphodel which scented the air. For the first of these two versions, Pausanias said that, as he had heard, Nessus, ferrying on Evenus, was wounded by Heracles but not killed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulf Of Patras
The Gulf of Patras ( el, Πατραϊκός Κόλπος, ''Patraikós Kólpos'') is a branch of the Ionian Sea in Western Greece. On the east, it is closed by the Strait of Rion between capes Rio, Greece, Rio and Antirrio, near the Rio-Antirrio bridge, that is the entrance of the Gulf of Corinth. On the west, it is bounded by a line from Oxeia island to Cape Araxos. To the north it is bounded by the shore of Aetolia-Acarnania in continental Greece, and to the south by Achaea in the Peloponnese peninsula. It is long, wide, and has an area of 350–400 km2. The port city of Patras lies to the southeast and is the only major port on the gulf. It serves ferries to Ancona and Brindisi in Italy and to Cephalonia. On the northern shore Missolonghi, also has a port. The old ports of Rio and Antirrio lie at the east end of the Gulf; there is a ferry service between them which complements the traffic over the Rio-Antirio bridge. The gulf is rich in fish and molluscs, including sea sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorway 5 (Greece)
The Greek Motorway 5 ( el, Αυτοκινητόδρομος 5; code: A5) is a motorway in Greece. The motorway, commonly referred to as Ionia Odos ( el, Ιόνια Οδός) or Ionia Motorway, starts at Ioannina and it follows the western coastline of mainland Greece down to the Gulf of Corinth. At Rio, it crosses the gulf via the Rio–Antirrio bridge and is connected with the A8 Motorway at an interchange near Patras. The future, currently under construction, Patras - Pyrgos motorway is typically part of the A5 Motorway. In August 2017, the last section under construction (Perdika-Ioannina) was completed and delivered to traffic by the Greek Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Network, making Ionia Odos a fully operational motorway. It is the second major north–south road connection after Motorway 1 and is also part of the trans-balkanic Adriatic–Ionian motorway and the European routes E55 and E951. The Ionia Odos motorway was one of the most challenging construc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
