List of cities in ancient Acarnania explained

Acarnania is a region of western Greece. Below is a list of the cities that existed in Acarnania in ancient times.^[1]

Cities

• Alyzeia founded by Corinthians^{[1] [2]} polis
• Ambracia founded by Corinthians^{[1] [2]} 650 BC polis
• Ambrakos^[3] pre Hellenistic fortress
• Amphilochia^{[4] [5]}
• Anaktorion founded by Corinthians^{[1] [6]} and Corcyrans 650 BC polis
• Ancient Paleros^{[7] [8]} or Palairos polis
• Amphilochian Argos founded by Ambrakians^{[1] [9]} polis
• Astakos founded by Corinthians^[10]
• Coronta^[11]
• Dioryktos^[3] pre Hellenistic settlement
• Echinus (Acarnania)^[12] polis
• Ellomenon^[3] pre Hellenistic settlement
• Euboia (Acarnania)^[3] pre Hellenistic
• Euripus_(Acarnania)^[12] polis
• Herakleia (Acarnania)^[12] polis
• Hyporeiai^[13] polis
• Idomene (polis)^[1] pre Hellenistic fortress & sanctuary
• Ithaka (polis)^[13] polis
• Ithoria^[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
• Korkyra (Acarnania) founded by Corinthians^[1] 706 BC
• Koronta^[14] polis
• Kraneia^[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
• Kranioi^[15] polis
• Krenai^[1] pre Hellenistic
• Leukas (polis) or Leucas (Epirus) founded by Corinthians^[1] 650 BC polis
• Limnaia^[16] polis
• Matropolis^[16] polis
• Medion (polis)^[17] polis
• Metropolis (polis)^[1] pre Hellenistic
• Nellos^[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
• Nerikos^[10] pre Hellenistic
• Nerikos^[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
• Nesos^[1] pre Hellenistic harbour
• Nicopolis founded by Octavian founded 31 BC^[18]
• Oiniadai^[17] polis
• Olpai^[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
• Palaerus^[19]
• Paleis^[20] polis
• Phara^[21] polis
• Phoitiai^[21] polis
• Pronnoi^[21] polis
• Ptychia^[1] pre Hellenistic
• Same (polis)^[22] polis
• Sauria (polis)^[1] pre Hellenistic fortress
• Sollion or Sollium founded by Corinthians^[1] polis
• Stratos (polis)^[23] polis
• Thyrreion^[24] polis
• Torybeia^[25] polis
• Zakynthos (polis) founded by Achaians^[1] polis

Notes and References

1. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005.
2. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 354
3. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 352
4. Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 (Hesperia Supplement) (v. 1) by James Wiseman and Konstantinos Zachos,2003,page 3,"... forced removal to Nikopolis of populations from other cities of Epirus, Acarnania, Leucas, Amphilochia, and Aetolia, ..."
5. Battles of the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Chronological Compendium of 667 Battles to 31Bc, from the Historians of the Ancient World (Greenhill Historic Series) by John Drogo Montagu,2000,Illustrated,Index: "... 9, 179 Idomene (426), name given to two peaks in Amphilochia (Epirus), W Greece. ..."
6. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 356
7. http://www.paleros.eu/local_info/interactive_map.html Location in Acarnania
8. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 368
9. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 357
10. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 340
11. Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
12. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 359
13. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 360
14. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 363
15. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 364
16. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 366
17. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 367
18. The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth,2003,page 10: "... just outside the gulf, in which he was defeated by *Octavian (2 September). A few years later, when Octavian founded *Nicopolis (3) on the opposite (northern) side of the strait, he ..."
19. Web site: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PALAERUS . 2023-12-26 . perseus.tufts.edu.
20. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 369
21. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 370
22. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 371
23. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 372
24. Encyclopedia of ancient Greece by Nigel Guy Wilson,2006,,page 4
25. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 373