Agrinio (Greek: Αγρίνιο, articulated [aˈɣrinio], Latin: Agrinium) is the largest city of the Aetolia-Acarnania local unit of Greece and its biggest municipality, with 106,053 occupants. It is the affordable center 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 walls and structures of which have been dug deep into. In medieval times as well as till 1836, the city was called Vrachori (Βραχώρι).
Most of the neighborhood populace was occupied for a vital time period in the cigarette market, from the last decades of 19th till the end of the 20th century. Large tobacco business were started in the city, consisting of the popular Papastratos, along with Panagopoulos as well as Papapetrou. Agrinion is additionally agriculturally known for its production of Agrinion olives.
Classical times
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Stratos ancient movie theater
According to mythology, the ancient city of Agrinio (located in the location of Megali Chora) was built by king Agrios, child of Portheus [2] and a terrific grand son of Aetolos (king of Plevron as well as Calydon) around 1600-1100 BC. The community, developed near the banks of river Achelous (the all-natural boundary between Aetolia as well as Acarnania), was asserted by both states during ancient times. Agrinio entered of the Aetolian League and it was later damaged by Cassander https://en.search.wordpress.com/?src=organic&q=ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ ΝΕΑ in 314 BC throughout the Organization's battles versus the Kingdom of Macedonia.
Ottoman Era
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The city reappears throughout the Ottoman period with the name Vrachori and aside from its Greek population it was also inhabited 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 upon the royal harems. Vrachori took part in the Greek Change and was momentarily freed, by an army group led by Alexakis Vlachopoulos, on June 11, 1821. In August 1822, while Reşid Mehmed Pasha's (Kütahi) soldiers were marching towards Vrachori, its people made a decision to shed as well as evacuate their city, adhering to the approach of scorched planet. The deserted city was recaptured by the Turks. The city was finally consisted of in the boundaries 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 Period
Xmas Central Square
Papastratos storehouses
Sight of the city
Central square
In the years following the freedom, Agrinio underwent an important growth as well as advancement, specifically at the end of the 19th century and also the dawn of the 20th. After the Greco-Turkish War and the Asia Minor Disaster, lots of evacuees from Asia Minor (western Turkey) arrived in the city as well as resolved in the district of Agios Konstantinos. At the same period there was an important inner migration to Agrinio from the whole Aetolia-Acarnania region, together with immigration from the areas of Epirus and also Evrytania.
Throughout the Interwar period, despite economical crisis, works of infrastructure took place in the city, like the paving of streets and the installation of electrical power, while a water tower was mounted in 1930. At the very same time excavations disclosed the ancient city of Agrinion. Growth and prosperity returned after World War II and also the ΕΙΔΗΣΕΙΣ ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟ Greek Civil War. This growth was improved by the structure of 2 significant hydroelectric dam installments at Kremasta as well as Kastraki, on the north of the city. The cigarette sector and olive tree growing became the major income resources of the city.