Astakos in the context of "Agrinio"

Astacus or Astakos (Ancient Greek: Ἄστακος) was a town on the west coast of ancient Acarnania, on a bay, one side of which is formed by the promontory anciently named Crithote. Astacus is said to have been a colony of Cephallenia. At the commencement of the Peloponnesian War, it was governed by a tyrant, named Evarchus, who was deposed by the Athenians in 431 BCE, but was shortly afterwards restored by the Corinthians. It is mentioned as one of the towns of Acarnania in a Greek inscription, the date of which is subsequent to 219 BCE.

Its site is located near the modern Astakos.

38°30′05″N 21°01′55″E / 38.50139°N 21.03194°E / 38.50139; 21.03194Cape Skopia (Greek: Άκρα Σκοπιά - Ákra Skopiá, meaning "cape lookout"; anciently Ancient Greek: Κριθωτή - Krithotí, Latin: Crithote; also formerly Turkovekla and Tourkovígla) is a headland in Acarnania forming the northern arm of land enclosing the Bay of Astakos. It is southwest of Astakos. It was one of the few natural features of Acarnania that is mentioned in the writings of antiquity, along with the more famous cape of Actium.

Xiromero (Greek: Ξηρόμερο) is a municipality in the Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit, West Greece region, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Astakos. Its borders do not coincide with the historical region of Xiromero, which extends to parts of the territory of the neighbouring municipality of Aktio-Vonitsa and most notably the area around Katouna. The municipality has an area of 590.113 km.

The Acarnanian Mountains (Greek: Ακαρνανικά όρη, Akarnanika ori) is a mountain range in the northwestern part of the Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit in western Greece. It stretches from the village Monastiraki, near Vonitsa, in the north to Astakos in the south, with a total length of nearly 40 km. The Ionian Sea lies to the west.