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Anactorium

Southern Europe

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.

Facts
Founding Year
630 BCE 1
Founding Year
630 BCE 1
Latitude
38.920833 degrees north 2
Longitude
20.843333 degrees east 2
Elevation Band
Sea Level 3
Climate Zone
Temperate 4
Time Zone
UTC+02:00 5
Sources
1. Wikipedia (Greek): Ανακτόριο
Wikipedia (Greek)Article text: founding statement
Quote, 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.
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2. Anactorium (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 38.920833, longitude 20.843333
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3. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 38.9208,20.8433
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevation
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"elevation": 1.0
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4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.75, 20.75
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.75, 20.75
38.75 20.75 Csa
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5. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, europe zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Europe/Athens; GR has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Quote, Zone Europe/Athens; GR has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Europe/Athens 1:34:52 - LMT 1895 Sep 14 ... # go with EU rules instead, since Greece joined Jan 1. 2:00 EU EE%sT
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Wikidata: Anactorium
Wikidata Q12873561, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Anactorium (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
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