Filippiada ( el, Φιλιππιάδα) is a small town and a former municipality in the
Preveza regional unit,
Epirus
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Greece
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Ziros, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 142.409 km
2.
It has a population of 8,106 (2011 census).
Geography
The town of Filippiada is situated at the foot of low hills on the right bank of the river
Louros
Louros ( el, Λούρος) is a town and a former municipality in the Preveza regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Preveza, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat of the municip ...
. The northern part of the municipal unit is mountainous. Filippiada is northwest of
Arta, northeast of
Preveza
Preveza ( el, Πρέβεζα, ) is a city in the region of Epirus, northwestern Greece, located on the northern peninsula at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf. It is the capital of the regional unit of Preveza, which is part of the region of Epiru ...
and south of
Ioannina
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. The
Greek National Road 5
National Road 5 ( el, Εθνική Οδός 5, abbreviated as EO5) is a single carriageway road in western Greece. It connects Antirrio, at the north end of the Rio-Antirrio bridge, with Ioannina in northwestern Greece, passing through Agrinio a ...
(
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 ...
-
Agrinio
Agrinio ( Greek: Αγρίνιο, , Latin: ''Agrinium'') is the largest city of the Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit of Greece and its largest municipality, with 106,053 inhabitants. It is the economical center of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its c ...
- Arta - Ioannina) passes through the town, and the
Greek National Road 21
Greek National Road 21 is a national highway of northwestern Greece. It connects Preveza with Greek National Road 5 near Filippiada
Filippiada ( el, Φιλιππιάδα) is a small town and a former municipality in the Preveza regional unit, E ...
connects it with Preveza.
History
The area of Filippiada has been inhabited since at least the 8th and 7th centuries BC. The ancient cities of
Charadron (Χάραδρον) and
Bouchetion Buchetium or Bouchetion ( grc, Βουχέτιον), or Buchaetium or Bouchaition (Βουχαίτιον), or Buchetum or Boucheton (Βουχετόν), or Bucheta or Boucheta (Βούχετα), was a city of the Cassopaei in ancient Thesprotia, a littl ...
(on which the medieval Byzantine castle of
Rogoi
Rogoi ( el, Ρωγοί) is a Byzantine castle in Nea Kerasounta near Preveza, in western Greece. It is located on the site of the ancient city of Bouchetion (Βουχέτιον), which was abandoned in the late 1st century BC. Re-occupied in t ...
was built) were located here. There are many sites such as Saint Bessarion Church, the monument in honor of the fighters of the
Battle of Bizani, and
Lake Ziros.
Subdivisions
The municipal unit Filippiada is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):
*
Agios Georgios
*
Dryofyto
* Filippiada
*
Gymnotopos
*
Kerasona (Kerasona, Agia Faneromeni)
*
Kleisoura (Kleisoura,
Pente Pigadia Pente Pigadia ( el, Πέντε Πηγάδια, or "Five Wells"; before 1971: Μπρίγκα - ''Brigka'') is a settlement in the municipal unit of Filippiada in the northern part of the Preveza regional unit in Greece. It is part of the community o ...
)
*
Nea Kerasounta (Nea Kerasounta, Iliovouni)
*
Panagia
Panagia ( el, Παναγία, fem. of , + , the ''All-Holy'', or the ''Most Holy''; pronounced ) (also transliterated Panaghia or Panajia), in Medieval and Modern Greek, is one of the titles of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern ...
(Panagia, Gonia, Voulista)
*
Petra
Petra ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرَاء, Al-Batrāʾ; grc, Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean Aramaic, Nabataean: ), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is an historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to t ...
*
Romia (Romia, Paidopoli Zirou)
Population
See also
*
List of settlements in the Preveza regional unit
This is a list of settlements in the Preveza regional unit, Greece.
* Acherousia
* Agia
* Agios Georgios
* Ammoudia
* Andonia
* Ano Rachi
* Ano Skafidoti
* Anogeio
* Anthousa
* Assos
* Cheimadio
* Despotiko
* Dryofyto
* Ekklisies
* Fi ...
References
Populated places in Preveza (regional unit)
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