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Ambracia

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Ambracia was a city of ancient Greece on the site of what is now Arta, founded by the Corinthians in 625 BC. It stood about 11 kilometers from the Ambracian Gulf, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos, amid a fertile wooded plain.

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