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Encyclopedia Britannica



ACARNANIA

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 111 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ACARNANIA , a
district
  of ancient
Greece
 , bounded on the W. by the Ionian Sea, on the N. by the Ambracian Gulf, on the E. and S. by Mt. Thyamus and the Achelous. The Echinades islands, off the S.W.
coast
 , are gradually being joined up to the mainland. Its most populous region was the plain of the Achelous, commanded by the
principal
  town Stratus; communication with the
coast
  was impeded by mountain ridges and lagoons. Its people
long
  continued in semi-barbarism, having little intercourse with the rest of
Greece
 . In the 5th century B.C. with the aid of Athens they subdued the Corinthian factories on their coast. In 391 they submitted to the Spartan king Agesilaus; in 371 they passed under Theban
control
 . In the Hellenistic age the Acarnanians were constantly assailed by their Aetolian neighbours. On the advice of Cassander they made effective their ancient cantonal league, apparently after the pattern of Aetolia. In the 3rd century they obtained assistance from the Illyrians, and formed a close alliance with Philip V. of Macedonia, whom they supported in his Roman wars, their new federal
capital
 , Leucas,
standing
  a siege in his
interest
 . For their sympathy with his successor Perseus they were deprived of Leucas and required to send hostages to Rome (167). The country was finally desolated by
Augustus
 , who drafted its inhabitants into Nicopolis and Patrae. Acarnania took a prominent part in the national uprising of 1821; it is now joined with Aetolia as a nome. The sites of several ancient towns in Acarnania are marked by well-preserved walls, especially those of Stratus, Oeniadae and Limnaea.


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