In ancient times Párga had various names such as Paragiros, Ypargos and Paragaia. Based on the excavations, it is estimated that the area was first inhabited during the Middle Paleolithic era (300,000 – 30,000 BC). The inhabitants of the city had built Párga on Mount Pezovolos. From the Mycenaean years to its union with Greece,…
The word Sývota comes from the compound word “Sivosion”, which means “many islands area”. In other words, Sývota got its name from the many islands in the area (Ágios Nikólaos, small and large Mourteméno and Moúrtos). In ancient times it was also called “Sývota”. During the Middle Ages until 1927 Sývota had the name “Vólia”,…
Thucydides in his tours, when referring to Igoumenítsa, called it “Limín Érimon (Deserted Port)”. According to mythology, the two islands at the entrance of the port of Igoumenítsa (Ágios Diónysos and Prasoúdi), were the rocks thrown by the Cyclops on the ships of Odysseus, during the Homeric Odyssey. The first settlement of the island began…
The name “Paxoí” derives from the ancient Phoenician word “Paks” which means trapeze. The name probably came from the fact that Paxoí has a roughly flat shape (no high mountains or sudden peaks) and therefore reminds of the geometrical shape of trapeze. In all the ancient maps and books, the name “Paxoí” was used for…