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Agrinio (Greek: Αγρίνιο, pronounced [aˈɣrinio], Latin: Agrinium) is the biggest city of the Aetolia-Acarnania regional system of Greece as well as its largest district, with 106,053 inhabitants. It is the affordable center of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its funding is the community of Mesolonghi. The settlement dates back to ancient times. Old Agrinion was 3 kilometres (2 miles) northeast of today city; some walls as well as structures of which have been excavated. In middle ages times and also up until 1836, the city was referred to as Vrachori (Βραχώρι).

Most of the local population was inhabited for a vital time period in the tobacco market, from the last decades of http://edition.cnn.com/search/?text=ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ ΝΕΑ 19th till the end of the 20th century. Big cigarette firms were started in the city, consisting of the popular Papastratos, alongside Panagopoulos and Papapetrou. Agrinion is also agriculturally known for its production of Agrinion olives.

Antiquity

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Stratos old cinema

According to folklore, the old city of Agrinio (situated in the location of Megali Chora) was constructed by king Agrios, kid of AGRINIO NEWS Portheus [2] and also a great grandson of Aetolos (king of Plevron as well as Calydon) around 1600-1100 BC. The community, built near the banks of river Achelous (the natural boundary in between Aetolia and also Acarnania), was asserted by both states during old times. Agrinio became member of the Aetolian Organization and also it was later on destroyed by Cassander in 314 BC throughout the Organization's wars against the Kingdom of Macedonia.

Ottoman Era

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The city comes back during the Ottoman duration with the name Vrachori and besides its Greek population it was likewise occupied by many Turks (Muslims). In 1585 it was deserted throughout the revolt of Theodoros Migas. At the beginning of the 18th century it became the administrative centre of Aetolia-Acarnania (then as the sanjak of Karleli), depended upon the imperial harems. Vrachori participated in the Greek Transformation and was temporarily liberated, by a military group led by Alexakis Vlachopoulos, on June 11, 1821. In August 1822, while Reşid Mehmed Pasha's (Kütahi) troops were marching in the direction of Vrachori, its people determined to shed as well as evacuate their city, following the technique of scorched earth. The deserted city was regained by the Turks. The city was finally consisted of in the boundaries of the newborn Greek state completely in 1832 with the Treaty of Constantinople (July 9, 1832) and also was renamed after its old name, Agrinion.

Modern Period

Christmas Central Square

Papastratos warehouses

View of the city

Central square

In the years adhering to the liberation, Agrinio experienced an important development and also advancement, particularly at the end of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th. After the Greco-Turkish Battle and the Asia Minor Catastrophe, lots of refugees from Asia Minor (western Turkey) got here in the city as well as resolved in the district of Agios Konstantinos. At the very same period there was a crucial internal migration to Agrinio from the whole Aetolia-Acarnania area, together with migration from the locations of Epirus as well as Evrytania.

Throughout the Interwar duration, in spite of cost-effective situation, jobs of framework took place in the city, like the paving of streets as well as the installment of electrical energy, while a water tower was mounted in 1930. At the same time excavations disclosed the ancient city of Agrinion. Growth as well as prosperity returned after World War II and also the Greek Civil Battle. This development was increased by the structure of 2 significant hydroelectric dam installations at Kremasta and Kastraki, on the north of the city. The tobacco industry as well as olive tree farming came to be the primary income resources of the city.