Place:Arta, Ipeiros, Greece

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NameArta
Alt namesArtasource: Wikipedia
Ártasource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Árta departmentsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypePrefecture
Coordinates39.167°N 21.0°E
Located inIpeiros, Greece
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Arta
Kompoti
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Arta is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the Epirus region. Its capital is the town of Arta.

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History

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Arta was one of the capitals of the Despotate of Epirus in the late Middle Ages. The territory of the regional unit was ceded to Greece in 1881 by the Ottoman Empire, along with Thessaly, in accordance with the 1878 Congress of Berlin. A famous landmark of Arta is the Old Bridge over the Arachthos river.

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