The town of Astakos is built at the foot of Mount Veloutsa (Dikorfo), at the cove of the homonymous bay. It took its name from the mythical Astakos who was the son of Poseidon and Olivia. The word today means “lobster” in Greek, but it has nothing to do with the tasty crustaceans. The first…
Mytikas is a seaside village, the name of which probably derives from its geographical location, as it is built on an edge (nose), east of Cape Kamilafka. There is little historical evidence for the village, which actually developed after the Turkish occupation (1830). The 19th century British traveler William Martin Leek mentions the existence of…
Paleros until 1928 was called Zaverda, a name that probably derives from the composition of the Slavic prefix «za», which means behind or on the sides and from the Latin «verde», which means green or garden. In other words, the “green slope”. Paleros is considered to have been settled, according to Thucydides, like the rest…
The word “kastos” in ancient Greek means solid earth. Kastos has an area of only seven and a half square kilometres and a width of nine hundred metres, and is the smallest inhabitable island of the Ionian islands. It consists of low hills, the highest of which is around 150 metres. It is adjacent to…
Kalamos island is the second largest island in the Televoid cluster of islands. It is located in the southeast of Lefkada, between western Etoloakarnania and Meganisi. Most of it is mostly mountainous. It has an altitude of 745 meters. Its area is 20 square kilometers. The first signs of habitation of the island date back…
Meganisi is the largest island of the Prigipónisa cluster of islands (as its name suggests), with an area of 20 square kilometers, and is located 4 miles southeast of Lefkada. In the municipality of Meganisi, apart from the homonymous island, belongs the well-known islet of Scorpios as well as the islets of Skorpidi, Sparta, Madouri,…
It is the island that, as Homer says, “almost touches” the opposite Aitoloakarnania of mainland Greece. In the Drepano Strait there is a floating bridge about 25 meters long that connects the island with the opposite mainland. Together with Evia, it is the only two islands in Greece that can be accessed by road. It…
The name of Amfilochía came from the hero Amfilochos, who when he returned from the Trojan War conquered the entire East and North side of the Amvrakikós, naming it Amfilochía. The first city he built was Amfilochikó Árgos. In ancient times, according to Thucydides’s tour, Amfilochía was called the wider region, which included almost all…
It was built in 395 AD immediately after the first abandonment of Nikopolis. From its foundation until the Fall of Constantinople (1453) Vónitsa was attacked by pirates. In 1070 AD the Venetians built a castle in Vónitsa and took control of its ports (it was one of the privileges given to them by the Byzantine…
There are various versions about the origin of the name of Preveza. According to some, it is believed that the word came from the Slavic word “perevoz”, which means “passage”. According to others, the word comes from the old Albanian expression “prevëzë-za”, which means “transport for” (probably Preveza was a commercial or shipping centre from…