Akri
Sign in to savethumb|300px|A map showing the Battle of Actium. Actium, also known as Aktion or Aktio (, ), is a peninsula on the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf in Acarnania, Greece, and the site of an ancient town of the same name. It is most known for the Battle of Actium, in which Octavian gained his celebrated victory over Antony and Cleopatra, on September 2, 31 BC. The peninsula has been connected to Preveza in Epirus since 2002 via the Aktio–Preveza Undersea Tunnel.
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- History
- Archaeology
- The Aktio–Preveza Undersea Tunnel
- See also
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thumb|300px|A map showing the Battle of Actium. Actium, also known as Aktion or Aktio (, ), is a peninsula on the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf in Acarnania, Greece, and the site of an ancient town of the same name. It is most known for the Battle of Actium, in which Octavian gained his celebrated victory over Antony and Cleopatra, on September 2, 31 BC. The peninsula has been connected to Preveza in Epirus since 2002 via the Aktio–Preveza Undersea Tunnel.
==History== thumb|Battle of Actium by [[Laureys a Castro, 1672. Note anachronisms.]] Actium belonged originally to the Corinthian colonists of Anactorium, who probably founded the sanctuary of Apollo Actius. This temple was of great antiquity. In the 3rd century BC it fell to the Acarnanians, who subsequently held their religious summits there.