Anactorium, also called Anaktorion, was an ancient town in Acarnania in western Greece, on a promontory on the Ambraciot Gulf, the first town encountered in Acarnania after Actium. Jointly colonized by Corinth and Corcyra, it fell under sole Corinthian control by fraud during a war between the two cities in 432 BCE, and was taken from Corinth by the Acarnanians with Athenian help in 425 BCE. The emperor Augustus later resettled its inhabitants in his new city of Nicopolis across the gulf, and its site is now identified near modern Nea Kamarina.
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Founding Year Founding Year Latitude38.920833 degrees north 2 Sources
1. Wikipedia (Greek): Ανακτόριο
Wikipedia (Greek)Article text: founding statementQuote, Article text: founding statement
Σύμφωνα με τον Θουκυδίδη ιδρύθηκε από τον νόθο γιο του τυράννου Εχιάδη γύρω στα 630 π.Χ. σε θέση ευνοϊκή για εμπόριο, ναυτιλία και λιγότερο για την κτηνοτροφία και τη γεωργία.
2. Anactorium (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 38.920833, longitude 20.843333
Wikidata: Anactorium
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