Palairos
Sign in to savePalairos () is an ancient city and a modern town in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. The modern village is also known locally by the name of Zaverda (Ζαβέρδα), in official use till 1928. Since the 2011 local government reform Palairos is part of the municipality Aktio-Vonitsa, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 205.843 km2. The municipal unit was formed as the independent municipality Kekropia in 1994 from the former communities Palairos and Pogonia, and was expanded with the former communities Vatos, Plagia and Peratia as a part of the 1997 Kapodistrias reform.
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Place details
- Locality
- Δημοτική Ενότητα Παλαίρου
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Δυτικής Ελλάδας
- Country
- Ελλάς
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Palairos
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Πάλαιρος
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Palerou.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- West Greece
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Aetolia-Acarnania
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Aktio-Vonitsa
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 3799
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 2029
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 205.8
- Greek Dimos.elevation
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Palairos () is an ancient city and a modern town in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. The modern village is also known locally by the name of Zaverda (Ζαβέρδα), in official use till 1928. Since the 2011 local government reform Palairos is part of the municipality Aktio-Vonitsa, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 205.843 km2. The municipal unit was formed as the independent municipality Kekropia in 1994 from the former communities Palairos and Pogonia, and was expanded with the former communities Vatos, Plagia and Peratia as a part of the 1997 Kapodistrias reform. The name of the municipal unit was changed to Palairos in 2004.
==History== upright|thumb|left Palairos (, ) was a city of ancient Greece, situated in the southern part of the region of Epirus. The city, ruinous for centuries, is thought to have existed during the Mycenean period, since parts of the city walls appear to date back to 2000 B.C. The construction of the walls interchanges between the square-shaped and the polygonal system and the parts belong to different periods. It lies high in the mountains overlooking the Ionian Sea and Lake Vourkaria. The city is thought to have had a population of over 10,000 people.