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ACARNANIA

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ACARNANIA , a See also:

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

Acarnania took a prominent See also:

part in the See also:national uprising of 1821; it is now joined with Aetolia as a See also: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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