Listed 6 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "AKTIO - VONITSA Municipality ETOLOAKARNANIA" .
AKTION (Ancient port) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Battle of.
ANAKTORION (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Colony of Corinth.
AKTION (Ancient port) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Beginning at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf the first place which belongs to the Acarnanians is Actium. The temple of the Actian Apollo bears the same name, as also the cape which forms the mouth of the Gulf and has a harbor on the outer side.(Strabo 10,2,7)
ANAKTORION (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
As for cities, those of the Acarnanians are Anactorium, which is situated on a peninsula near Actium and is a trading center of the Nicopolis of today, which was founded in our times.
PALEROS (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Next after Leucas one comes to Palaerus and Alyzia, cities of Acarnania; of these, Alyzia is fifteen stadia distant from the sea, where is a harbor sacred to Heracles and a sacred precinct. It is from this precinct that one of the commanders carried to Rome the "Labours of Heracles," works of Lysippus, which were lying out of place where they were, because it was a deserted region. Then one comes to Cape Crithote, and the Echinades, and the city Astacus, which bears the same name as the city near Nicomedeia and Gulf Astacenus, the name being used in the feminine gender. Crithote also bears the same name as one of the little cities in the Thracian Chersonesus. All parts of the coast between these places have good harbors.
VOULKARIA, LAKE (Lake) VONITSA
Between Leucas and the Ambracian Gulf is a salt lake, called Myrtuntium (Strab. 10.2.21).
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