Agrinio (Greek: Αγρίνιο, articulated [aˈɣrinio], Latin: Agrinium) is the biggest city of the Aetolia-Acarnania local device of Greece as well as its largest town, with 106,053 residents. It is the cost-effective facility of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its capital is the community of Mesolonghi. The settlement dates back to ancient times. Ancient Agrinion was 3 kilometres (2 miles) northeast of the present city; some wall surfaces and also foundations of which have been excavated. In medieval times and till 1836, the city was referred to as Vrachori (Βραχώρι).
The majority of the local populace was occupied for a vital time period in the tobacco industry, from the last ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ ΝΕΑ decades of 19th till the end of the 20th century. Huge tobacco companies were started in the city, including the famous Papastratos, together with Panagopoulos and Papapetrou. Agrinion is additionally agriculturally recognized for its manufacturing of Agrinion olives.
Antiquity
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According to mythology, the ancient city of Agrinio (positioned in the area of Megali Chora) was developed by king Agrios, child of Portheus [2] and a great grand son of Aetolos (king of Plevron and Calydon) around 1600-1100 BC. The community, built near the financial institutions of river Achelous (the all-natural border in between Aetolia and Acarnania), was claimed by both states during old times. Agrinio entered of the Aetolian League and it was later ruined by Cassander in 314 BC during the League's wars versus the Kingdom of Macedonia.
Footrest Age
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The city reappears throughout the Ottoman duration with the name Vrachori and also in addition to its Greek population it was also populated 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 (after that as the sanjak of Karleli), depended on the imperial hareems. Vrachori participated in the Greek Transformation and was temporarily liberated, by a military team led by Alexakis Vlachopoulos, on June 11, 1821. In August 1822, while Reşid Mehmed Pasha's (Kütahi) troops were marching towards Vrachori, its citizens decided to melt as well as leave their city, adhering to the technique of scorched planet. The deserted city was recaptured by the Turks. The city was finally included in the borders of the newborn Greek state completely in 1832 with the Treaty of Constantinople (July 9, 1832) as well as was renamed after its old name, Agrinion.
Modern Period
Christmas Central Square
Papastratos storehouses
View of the city
Central square
In the years adhering to the freedom, Agrinio underwent an important growth as well as advancement, especially at the end of the 19th century and also the dawn of the 20th. After the Greco-Turkish Battle and also the Asia Minor Disaster, lots of refugees from Asia Minor (western Turkey) got here in the city as well as worked out in the district of Agios Konstantinos. At the very same duration there was an important inner immigration to Agrinio from the whole Aetolia-Acarnania region, together with immigration from the locations of Epirus and also Evrytania.
During the Interwar duration, even with affordable crisis, works of facilities happened in the city, like the paving of roads and the installment of electricity, while a water tower was installed in 1930. At the very same time excavations exposed the ancient city of Agrinion. Development as well as success returned after The second world war and also the Greek Civil Battle. This growth was boosted by the building of two major hydroelectric dam setups at Kremasta as well as Kastraki, on the north of the city. The cigarette sector and olive tree growing ended up being http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ ΝΕΑ the primary income sources of the city.