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Aetolia

Aetolia (Greek: Αἰτωλία, romanizedAἰtōlía) is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania.

For the online video game, see Aetolia (online game).

Aetolia
Αἰτωλία

Aetolian League
(290–189 BC)

Geography[edit]

The Achelous River separates Aetolia from Acarnania to the west; on the north it had boundaries with Epirus and Thessaly; on the east with the Ozolian Locrians; and on the south the entrance to the Corinthian Gulf defined the limits of Aetolia.


In classical times Aetolia comprised two parts: "Old Aetolia" (Greek: Παλιά Αιτωλία, romanizedPaliá Aitolía) in the west, from the Achelous to the Evenus and Calydon; and "New Aetolia" (Greek: Νέα Αιτωλία, romanizedNéa Aitolía) or "Acquired Aetolia" (Greek: Αἰτωλία Ἐπίκτητος, romanizedAitolía Epíktitos) in the east, from the Evenus and Calydon to the Ozolian Locrians. The country has a level and fruitful coastal region, but an unproductive and mountainous interior. The mountains contained many wild beasts, and acquired fame in Greek mythology as the scene of the hunt for the Calydonian Boar, also called the Aetolian Boar.[1]

general [11]

Agetas

mythological hero

Aitolos

Queen of Sparta and mother of Helen, Clytemnestra, and the Dioscuri by Zeus and Tyndareus

Leda

father of Thoas

Andraemon

hero of the Trojan War

Thoas

wrestler

Titormus

poet

Alexander Aetolus

Damocritus, general

Dorimachus, general

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general

Nicolaus of Aetolia

general

Theodotus of Aetolia

Pyrrhias, Olympic racer in 200 BC [13]

stadion

general [14]

Pyrrhias of Aetolia

leading man of the Aetolian League

Agelaus of Naupactus

(1714–1779) monk

Cosmas of Aetolia

fighter of the Greek War of Independence (1821)

Dimitrios Makris

Aetolian League

List of traditional Greek place names

Aetolia Game

This article incorporates material from Harry Thurston Peck's (1898).

Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities