Foteino | |
Name Local: | Φωτεινό |
Type: | community |
Periph: | Epirus |
Periphunit: | Arta |
Municipality: | Nikolaos Skoufas |
Municunit: | Kompoti |
Population: | 165 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Area: | 8.953 |
Elevation: | 500 |
Coordinates: | 39.1344°N 21.1075°W |
Postal Code: | 471 00 |
Area Code: | 26810 |
Foteino (el|Φωτεινό [{{Audio|Gr-Fotino.ogg|pronunciation /fotinó/ }}]) is a village (community) in the municipal unit of Kompoti in the regional unit of Arta, Greece. In 2021 its population was 165.
The old name of the village, Hósiana (el|Χώσιανα), appears for the first time in 1696, in a historic document in which the villages of Arta asked the Venetian Republic for protection from pirates.[1]
In 1899, a new church was built by destroying a small old one, dating to the early 12th century[2]
The village was constituted as a separate commune with the 186/10.08.1947 government gazette (ΦΕΚ). Until then it was part of the commune of Ano-Petra.[3] With ΦΕΚ 195/23.07.1953, its name changed from Hosiana to Fotino,[4] and with law 2539/1997, as part of the Kapodistrias reforms, the commune became a municipal district of the municipality of Kompoti.