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 the Pindus mountains. Sellades is located north of Amfilochia and Agrinio, northwest of Kompoti, east-northeast of Preveza, southeast of Arta. The Ambracian Gulf is to the south.

ubdivisions

*Alonia

Nearest places

*Kompoti, southeast

Population

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 the Ioannina 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 of Makrynoros "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 the Greek 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 of Arta and university in the city of Ioannina.

External links

* http://www.sellades.com
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=2308 Sellades on GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
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*Coordinates: coord|39|6|10|N|21|4|44|E|type:city(687)_municipality_(754)_region:GR|display=inline,title