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ARTA, GULF OF (anc. Sinus Ambracius)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 660 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ARTA, GULF OF (anc. Sinus Ambracius) , an inlet of the Ionian Sea, 25 M.
long
  and ro broad, most of the northern shores of which belong to Turkey, the southern and eastern to
Greece
 . Its only important affluent, besides the Arta, is the Luro (anc. Chandra), also from the north. The gulf abounds with mullets, soles and eels. Around its shores are numerous ruins of ancient cities:
Actium
  at the entrance, where the famous
battle
  was fought in 31 B.c.;
Nicopolis
 , Argos, Limnaea and Olpae; and several flourishing towns, such as Preveza, Arta (anc.
Ambracia
 ), Karavasara or Karbasaras, and Vonitza.
The river ARTA (anc. Arachthus or Aratthus, in Livy xxxviii. 3, Aretho) is the
chief
  river of
Epirus
 , and is said to have been navigable in ancient times as far as
Ambracia
 . Below this town it flows through a marshy plain, consisting mainly of its own
alluvium
 ; its upper course is through the territory of the Molossians; its
total
  length is about 8o m.


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