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History (2)

Foundation/Settlement of the place

Kypselos & Gorgos, 7th century BC

ANAKTORION (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
The Corinthians sent by Cypselus and Gorgus took possession of this shore and also advanced as far as the Ambracian Gulf; and both Ambracia and Anactorium were colonized at this time. (Strabo 10,2,8)

Participation in the fights of the Greeks

Battle of Plataea

. . . next again, five hundred Ampraciots. After these stood eight hundred Leucadians and Anactorians, and next to them two hundred from Pale in Cephallenia

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