Periphery: Epirus
Prefectures : Arta , Ioannina , Preveza , Thesprotia

Arta, Arta municipality

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Arta (Greek: Άρτα, Albanian: Artë) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. It is also the capital with the same name, and was the capital of the Despotate of Epirus in the Middle Ages. The location is north of the Ambracian Gulf. Mountains surround the northeast with only one road linking into the Pineios valley and Thessaly, and low-land agricultural plains to its west. It is bounded by Preveza in the west, the prefecture of Ioannina to the north, the prefecture of Trikala in the east, Karditsa to the east and the prefecture of Aitoloacarnania to the south. The eastern boundary is bounded with the Acheloos River and the western boundary up to near GR-5/GR-21 jct is the Louros River.

Much of the population lives in the west, within the Aous valley, the south and east of Arta, further southeast, the Athamanian mountains and the southeast with a few parts of the north are the least populated.

Geography

Acheloos River
Arachthos River
Athamanian Mountains, situated in the northeast and is part of the Pindus ranges.
Louros River.

Church of Agios Vasileios (St. Basil)

Byzantine Church of Agia Theodora, Arta,

Church of Agia Theodora, Build in the 11th century as a church of St. George, extended around 1270 by Theodora who lived there, in the monastery, after the death of her husband. The grave of St. Theodora in front of the church.

Since 1996 or 1997 the bypass of Arta (GR-5) which will become Ioniki Odos linking Albania and Athens via Patras opened. Construction began in 1995. It runs in much of the prefecture.

Transportation

Greece Interstate 5/E55, S, Cen., W
Greece Interstate 21, W
Greece Interstate 30, Cen., E

Communications

Television

Art TV

Places

Arta
Kompoti
Peta

Chalkiades, Arta

Municipalities and communities

Division of the Arta Municipality

• Arta / Δ.δ. Αρταίων [ 21.642 ]
  
  • Arta / η Άρτα [ 19.435 ]
    
  • Agia Trias / η Αγία Τριάς [ 147 ]
    
  • Agioi Anargyroi / οι Άγιοι Ανάργυροι [ 605 ]
    
  • Agios Georgios Glykorrizou / ο Άγιος Γεώργιος Γλυκορρίζου [ 77 ]
    
  • Glykorrizon / το Γλυκόρριζον [ 285 ]
    
  • Eleousa / η Ελεούσα [ 903 ]
    
  • Marathovouni / το Μαραθοβούνι [ 104 ]
    
  • Moni Geniseos Theotokou (or Kato Panagias) / η Μονή Γεννήσεως Θεοτόκου (ή Κάτω Παναγίας) [ 86 ]
    
• Keramates / Δ.δ. Κεραματών -- οι Κεραμάτες [ 394 ]
  
• Kostakioi / Δ.δ. Κωστακιών [ 1.508 ]
  
  • Kostakioi / οι Κωστακιοί [ 1.404 ]
    
  • Thanasaiika / τα Θανασαίικα [ 34 ]
    
  • Sygouneika / τα Συγγουνέικα [ 70 ]
    
• Limini / Δ.δ. Λιμίνης -- η Λιμίνη [ 319 ]
  

Persons

Nikolaos Skoufas, Filiki Etaireia

Links

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