Achelous River
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The Achelous, also Acheloos, is a river in Epirus, western Greece. It is 220 km long. It formed the boundary between Acarnania and Aetolia of antiquity. It empties into the Ionian Sea. In ancient time
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A Roman fresco from Herculaneum depicting Hercules (from Etruscan Hercle and ultimately Greek Herakles) and Achelous (patron deity of the Achelous River in Greece) from Greco-Roman mythology, 1st century AD
Oeniadae
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Oeniadae or Oiniadai, or Oeneiadae or Oineiadai, was a town in ancient Acarnania, situated on the west bank of the Achelous River, about 10 miles from its mouth. It was one of the most important of th
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…Dolopians and Agraeans, entered the plain of Acarnania and Aetolia near Stratus, and discharged itself into the Ionian Sea, near the Acarnanian town of Oeniadae. It subsequently formed the boundary between Acarnania and Aetolia, but in the time of Thucydides the territory of Oeniadae extended east of the river…
Remains of the ancient shipsheds at Oeniadae
Fortifications of the harbor