Agrinio (Greek: Αγρίνιο, articulated [aˈɣrinio], Latin: Agrinium) is the largest city of the Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit of Greece and also its largest municipality, with 106,053 residents. It is the economical facility of Aetolia-Acarnania, although its funding is the community of Mesolonghi. The negotiation goes back to ancient times. Old Agrinion was 3 kilometres (2 miles) northeast of the here and now city; some wall surfaces as well as foundations of which have been dug deep into. In medieval times ΝΕΑ ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟΥ and also till 1836, the city was called Vrachori (Βραχώρι).
The majority of the regional population was occupied for an important time period in the cigarette sector, from the last decades of 19th till the end of the 20th century. Huge cigarette firms were founded in the city, consisting of the renowned Papastratos, alongside Panagopoulos and also Papapetrou. Agrinion is likewise agriculturally understood for its manufacturing of Agrinion olives.
Classical times
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According to folklore, the old city of Agrinio (positioned in the area of Megali Chora) was developed by king Agrios, kid of Portheus [2] and a great grandson of Aetolos (king of Plevron and also Calydon) around 1600-1100 BC. The town, built near the financial institutions of river Achelous (the natural boundary in between Aetolia as well as Acarnania), was claimed by both states during ancient times. Agrinio entered of the Aetolian League as well as it was later ruined by Cassander in 314 BC during the League's wars versus the Kingdom of Macedonia.
Ottoman Period
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The city comes back during the Ottoman period with the name Vrachori and also in addition to its Greek populace it was additionally lived in by several Turks (Muslims). In 1585 it was deserted during the revolt of Theodoros Migas. At the beginning of the 18th century it ended up being the management centre of Aetolia-Acarnania (then as the sanjak of Karleli), depended upon the royal harems. Vrachori participated in the Greek Revolution as well as was temporarily freed, by a military group led by Alexakis Vlachopoulos, on June 11, 1821. In August 1822, while Reşid Mehmed Pasha's (Kütahi) troops were marching towards Vrachori, its residents decided to melt and also evacuate their city, complying with the technique of scorched planet. The deserted city was regained by the Turks. The city was finally included in the borders of the newborn Greek state permanently in 1832 with the Treaty of Constantinople (July 9, 1832) and also was renamed after its ancient name, Agrinion.
Modern Age
Xmas Central Square
Papastratos storehouses
Sight of the city
Central square
In the years complying with the freedom, Agrinio underwent an essential development and also development, specifically at the end of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th. After the Greco-Turkish War as well as the Asia Minor Disaster, lots of evacuees from Asia Minor (western Turkey) arrived in the city and https://en.search.wordpress.com/?src=organic&q=ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ ΝΕΑ also settled in the area of Agios Konstantinos. At the same duration there was an important inner immigration to Agrinio from the whole Aetolia-Acarnania region, in addition to migration from the areas of Epirus and Evrytania.
Throughout the Interwar period, even with economical situation, jobs of framework occurred in the city, like the paving of roads and the installment of electrical power, while a water tower was set up in 1930. At the exact same time excavations exposed the old city of Agrinion. Growth and also success returned after The second world war and the Greek Civil War. This development was improved by the structure of two significant 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 the main income resources of the city.