The Ultimate Glossary of Terms About ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ

Posted by Azar on June 21st, 2021

Agrinio (Greek: http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ ΝΕΑ Αγρίνιο, pronounced [aˈɣrinio], Latin: Agrinium) is the biggest city of the Aetolia-Acarnania local device of Greece and also its biggest district, with 106,053 occupants. It is the cost-effective center of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its funding is the town of Mesolonghi. The settlement goes back to old times. Old Agrinion was 3 kilometres (2 miles) northeast of today city; some walls and structures of which have been excavated. In medieval times and also up until 1836, the city was referred to as Vrachori (Βραχώρι).

The majority of the regional population was occupied for a crucial time period in the tobacco industry, from the last decades of 19th till completion of the 20th century. Huge cigarette business were established in the city, consisting of the famous Papastratos, alongside Panagopoulos and also Papapetrou. Agrinion is additionally agriculturally recognized for its production of Agrinion olives.

Antiquity

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Stratos old cinema

According to mythology, the old city of Agrinio (located in the location of Megali Chora) was built by king Agrios, boy of Portheus [2] as well as a great grand son of Aetolos (king of Plevron as well as Calydon) around 1600-1100 BC. The town, built near the financial institutions of river Achelous (the natural boundary between Aetolia and Acarnania), was asserted by both states during old times. Agrinio entered of the Aetolian Organization and also it was later damaged by Cassander in 314 BC throughout the Organization's battles against the Kingdom of Macedonia.

Footrest Period

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The city comes back throughout the Footrest period with the name Vrachori as well as besides its Greek population it was likewise populated by numerous Turks (Muslims). In 1585 it was deserted throughout the revolt of Theodoros Migas. At the beginning of the 18th century it came to be the administrative centre of Aetolia-Acarnania (then as the sanjak of Karleli), depended on the royal hareems. Vrachori participated in the Greek Revolution as well as was momentarily liberated, by an army team 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 decided to shed as well as evacuate their city, adhering to the method of scorched earth. The deserted city was regained by the Turks. The city was ultimately included in the boundaries of the newborn Greek state ΕΙΔΗΣΕΙΣ ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ permanently in 1832 with the Treaty of Constantinople (July 9, 1832) as well as was renamed after its ancient name, Agrinion.

Modern Age

Xmas Central Square

Papastratos warehouses

View of the city

Central square

In the years complying with the liberation, Agrinio underwent an important development as well as advancement, specifically at the end of the 19th century and also the dawn of the 20th. After the Greco-Turkish Battle and the Asia Minor Disaster, numerous evacuees from Asia Minor (western Turkey) showed up in the city as well as cleared up in the district of Agios Konstantinos. At the very same period there was an important inner immigration to Agrinio from the whole Aetolia-Acarnania region, along with migration from the locations of Epirus and Evrytania.

Throughout the Interwar duration, despite economical situation, works of framework occurred in the city, like the paving of roads and also the installation of electricity, while a water tower was mounted in 1930. At the exact same time excavations revealed the old city of Agrinion. Growth and success returned after The second world war as well as the Greek Civil Battle. This growth was enhanced by the building of two significant hydroelectric dam installments at Kremasta and Kastraki, on the north of the city. The cigarette sector and also olive tree cultivation came to be the main revenue resources of the city.