Peta, Greece

Peta (Greek: Πέτα) is a municipality in the prefecture of Arta, Greece. Population 4,904 (2001). Its 2001 population was 1,916 for the town, 3,896 for the municipal district and 4,904 for the municipality. Sellades is linked with the GR-30 (Volos - Farsala - Karditsa - Arta) connecting the GR-30 ((Patras - )Antirrio - Agrinio - Arta - Ioannina) along with Ioannina and the Pindus mountains along with Karditsa. Peta is located north of Amfilochia, northeast of Arta, south-southeast Ioannina and east of Preveza. The Arachthos River and its reservoir lies to the northwest.

ubdivisions

*Agios Dimitrios
*Amfithea
*Ano Agioi Anargyroi
*Kleisto
*Neochoraki
*Pournari

Municipal districts

*Markinada
**Diasella
**Megkla
**Melates
**Zygos
*Megarchi

Population

History

Peta was ruled by the Ottomans with some interruption, the town was affected by the Greek War of Independence and lost their victory to become a part of Greece. The Turks recaptured the village and continued ruling the region until 1881 with a brief Greek occupation in the 1850s but it was reconquered.

Peta finally joined Greece during the liberation of the modern southeastern Arta which included most of Thessaly that ended the Ottoman Turkish rule in 1881 and was one of the few towns to annex early to Greece, the tract of land northwest of Peta remained in Ottoman hands until the Balkan Wars of 1913. Its economy slowly improved.

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt. The population lost by nearly half between 1981 and 1991. The population slowly climbed between the 1991 and the 2001 censuses.

Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.

Other

Peta has a few schools, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches, banks, a post office, and a square ("plateia"), its nearest hospital and university are in the city of Ioannina.

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=2315 Peta (town) on GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=39.1646&longitude=21.0345&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=39.1646&lons1=20.0345&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=39.1646,21.0345 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=39.1646&lon=21.0345&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
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*Coordinates: coord|39|9|52|N|21|2|5|E|type:city(2,926)_municipality_(4,904)_region:GR|display=inline,title

	North: Athamania	Northeast: Irakleia
West: Vlacherna	Kompoti	East: Georgios Karaiskakis
Southwest: Arta	South: Kompoti	Southeast: Kompoti