- Sellades
Sellades or Selades (Greek: Σελλάδες) is a village in the municipality of
Kompoti in the prefecture of Arta,Greece . Its 2001 population was 687 for the town and 754 for the municipal district. Sellades is linked with the road connecting the GR-5/E55 ((Patras - )Antirrio -Agrinio - Arta -Ioannina ) and thePindus mountains. Sellades is located north ofAmfilochia andAgrinio , northwest ofKompoti , east-northeast ofPreveza , southeast ofArta . TheAmbracian Gulf is to the south.ubdivisions
*Alonia
Nearest places
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Kompoti , southeastPopulation
Origin of the name
Its origin of the name came from various sources other that it does not have as now. One of the origin of the name were the first inhabitants of the villages known as Selloi, they were people that arrived from
Dodona in theIoannina Prefecture . Another one was that its inhabitants moved and constructed horse lights and a third one was named that way in which it was constructed as a horse light.Strabo described the area as the area ofMakrynoros "Selaida" ("Σελαΐδα"). Another orign was its first inhabitants had their last name Selladitis or Seladitis (Σελλαδίτης). There is no explanation on its origin of Sellades.History
In its Venetian documents and sources dating from 1696 said that ellades along with the neighbouring village
Megarchi paid several subjections to the Venetians. It was ruled again by the Ottomans for the next two and a half centuries. There is no written document between 1696 and theGreek War of Independence on its history except on its names which took place in the revolutionary war. The Turks recaptured the village and continued ruling the region until 1881.Sellades 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. Its economy slowly improved.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
Sellades 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 is in the city ofArta and university in the city ofIoannina .External links
* http://www.sellades.com
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=2308 Sellades on GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=39.1018&longitude=21.076&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/map.aspx?&lats1=39.1018&lons1=20.076&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=39.1018,21.076 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=39.1018&lon=21.076&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
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*Coordinates: coord|39|6|10|N|21|4|44|E|type:city(687)_municipality_(754)_region:GR|display=inline,title
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