Agrinio (Greek: Αγρίνιο, articulated [aˈɣrinio], Latin: Agrinium) is the biggest city of the Aetolia-Acarnania local unit of Greece and also ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ ΝΕΑ its biggest municipality, with 106,053 citizens. It is the economical facility of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its funding is the town of Mesolonghi. The negotiation goes back to ancient times. Old Agrinion was 3 kilometres (2 miles) northeast of the present city; some walls and foundations of which have actually been excavated. In middle ages times and till 1836, the city was called Vrachori (Βραχώρι).
Most of the regional population was occupied for a crucial time period in the tobacco industry, from the last years of 19th till completion of the 20th century. Large cigarette business were established in the city, including the popular Papastratos, along with Panagopoulos as well as Papapetrou. Agrinion is additionally agriculturally known for its manufacturing of Agrinion olives.
Antiquity
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According to folklore, the ancient city of Agrinio (situated in the area of Megali Chora) was constructed by king Agrios, child of Portheus [2] and a great grandson of Aetolos (king of Plevron as well as Calydon) around 1600-1100 BC. The town, constructed near the banks of river Achelous (the natural boundary between Aetolia and Acarnania), was claimed by both states throughout old times. Agrinio became member of the Aetolian Organization and it was later destroyed by Cassander in 314 BC during the League's battles against the Kingdom of Macedonia.
Ottoman Period
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The city comes back during the Footrest period with the name Vrachori and aside from its Greek populace it was likewise inhabited by lots of Turks (Muslims). In 1585 it was deserted during the rebellion of Theodoros Migas. At the beginning of the 18th century it ended up being the administrative centre of Aetolia-Acarnania (then as the sanjak of Karleli), depended on the imperial hareems. Vrachori participated in the Greek Transformation and was momentarily freed, by an army team led by Alexakis Vlachopoulos, on June 11, 1821. In August 1822, while Reşid Mehmed Pasha's (Kütahi) soldiers were marching towards Vrachori, its citizens determined to melt and evacuate their city, adhering to the technique of scorched planet. The deserted city was recaptured by the Turks. The city was ultimately included in the borders of the newborn Greek state completely in 1832 with the Treaty of Constantinople (July 9, 1832) and also was relabelled after its old name, Agrinion.
Modern Period
Christmas Central Square
Papastratos warehouses
Sight of the city
Central square
In the years adhering to the freedom, Agrinio experienced an important development as well as development, particularly at the end of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th. After the Greco-Turkish War and also the Asia Minor Disaster, lots of evacuees from Asia Minor (western Turkey) showed up in the city and cleared up in the district of Agios Konstantinos. At the very same duration there was an important internal migration to Agrinio from the whole Aetolia-Acarnania region, together with immigration from the locations of Epirus as well as Evrytania.
During the Interwar period, even with cost-effective crisis, works of infrastructure happened in the city, like the paving of roads as well as the installation of electrical energy, while a water tower was installed in 1930. At the exact same time excavations exposed the old city of Agrinion. Development as well as prosperity returned after World War II as well as the Greek Civil Battle. This development was improved by the building of 2 major hydroelectric dam installments at Kremasta as well as Kastraki, on the north of the city. The tobacco industry as well as olive tree cultivation came to be the main income sources of the city.