Agrinio (Greek: Αγρίνιο, pronounced [aˈɣrinio], Latin: Agrinium) is the biggest city of the Aetolia-Acarnania local system of Greece as well as its biggest community, with 106,053 residents. It is the cost-effective center of Aetolia-Acarnania, ΝΕΑ ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟΥ although its resources is the community of Mesolonghi. The settlement dates back to old times. Old Agrinion was 3 kilometres (2 miles) northeast of today city; some walls as well as structures of which have been dug deep into. In medieval times as well as up until 1836, the city was known as Vrachori (Βραχώρι).
Most of the neighborhood populace was occupied for an essential amount of time in the cigarette market, from the https://en.search.wordpress.com/?src=organic&q=ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ ΝΕΑ last decades of 19th till the end of the 20th century. Huge cigarette business were started in the city, including the renowned Papastratos, along with Panagopoulos and also Papapetrou. Agrinion is additionally agriculturally understood for its production of Agrinion olives.
Antiquity
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Stratos old theater
According to mythology, the old city of Agrinio (positioned in the location of Megali Chora) was built by king Agrios, son of Portheus [2] and also a fantastic grand son of Aetolos (king of Plevron and also Calydon) around 1600-1100 BC. The town, built near the banks of river Achelous (the all-natural boundary in between Aetolia and also Acarnania), was declared by both states during old times. Agrinio entered of the Aetolian Organization and also it was later ruined by Cassander in 314 BC throughout the Organization's battles versus the Kingdom of Macedonia.
Footrest Age
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The city comes back during the Footrest duration with the name Vrachori and aside from its Greek populace it was also inhabited by numerous Turks (Muslims). In 1585 it was deserted during the rebellion of Theodoros Migas. At the start of the 18th century it came to be the management centre of Aetolia-Acarnania (after that as the sanjak of Karleli), depended on the royal harems. Vrachori participated in the Greek Revolution as well as 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 towards Vrachori, its residents decided to burn and leave their city, following the technique of scorched planet. The deserted city was recaptured by the Turks. The city was lastly included in the boundaries 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 Era
Xmas Central Square
Papastratos storehouses
Sight of the city
Central square
In the years following the liberation, Agrinio underwent a crucial development and development, especially at the end of the 19th century and also the dawn of the 20th. After the Greco-Turkish War as well as the Asia Minor Disaster, many evacuees from Asia Minor (western Turkey) showed up in the city and also settled in the district of Agios Konstantinos. At the same duration there was a crucial internal immigration to Agrinio from the entire Aetolia-Acarnania region, together with immigration from the areas of Epirus and also Evrytania.
Throughout the Interwar period, in spite of economical crisis, jobs of facilities happened in the city, like the paving of roads as well as the installation of power, while a water tower was installed in 1930. At the exact same time excavations revealed the old city of Agrinion. Development as well as success returned after World War II and also the Greek Civil Battle. This development was improved by the structure of two significant hydroelectric dam installments at Kremasta as well as Kastraki, on the north of the city. The tobacco industry and also olive tree farming ended up being the primary revenue sources of the city.