- Archangelos, Preveza
Archangelos (in Greek: Αρχάγγελος) is a village of
Preveza , in the periphery of Epirus, in westernGreece . It is located about 19 kilometers north of the town of Preveza, at an elevation of 40 meters. Archangelos belongs to the Zalogo municipality. Its population, according to the 1991 census was at 356, number which is estimated to have increased at around 500, until 2006.Location
Archangelos is cited at about 19 km north of
Preveza , 85 km south ofIgoumenitsa , 30 km west ofArta, Greece and 90 km southwest ofIoannina .Population
Around Archangelos
It has a beach located 7 km along with the historic rock of Zalogo and the rubbles of ancient Kassopi (Κασσώπη).
History
Archangelos was founded in 1922, just after the Asia Minor Catastrophe (see:
Population exchange between Greece and Turkey ), when Greek population left their millennia old homelands in Minor Asia andPontus , and forced to return toGreece . Many of them were from a village 46 km west-northwest of modernSinop .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.ntff
The Roman aqueduct
In Archangelos, there are some remains of the Roman aqueduct of
Nikopolis . The Roman aqueduct, 50 km long, carried the water from the springs ofLouros to two cisterns in the Nymphaeum of Nikopolis, was constructed after the foundation of Nikopolis byOctavianus Augustus for the water supply of the new city.Other
Archangelos has a school, a few churches, banks, a post office, and a square ("
plateia "), its nearest lyceum (middle school) and gymnasium (secondary school) are in the municipal seat.External links
* [http://www.archangelos.net The website of Archangelos, Preveza]
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