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A charming coastal town at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf with Venetian architecture, excellent seafood, and proximity to ancient Nikopolis.
20 km · about 25 min drive
West Greece, Greece · Europe
Monastiráki is worth a stop: 15 minutes from Vónitsa, 51km from Acheron Springs.
Monastiráki is a town located in West Greece, Greece. With a population of 1,299, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Monastiráki sits in Greece, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Athens time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Monastiráki to your route.
Thyrium or Thyrion (Ancient Greek: Θύριον), or Thyreum or Thyreon (Θύρεον), or Thurium or Thourion (Θούριον), or Thyrreium or Thyrreion (Θύρρειον), was a city in ancient Acarnania. Cicero tells us that in sailing from Alyzia to Leucas, he touched at Thyrium, where he remained two hours; and from this statement, asRead more
well as from the history of the events in which Thyrium is mentioned, we may infer that it was situated on or near the Ionian Sea, and that it was the first town on the coast south of the channel which separated Leucas from the mainland.
Thyrium is first mentioned in 373 BCE, when its territory was invaded by Iphicrates. Xenophon describes it as a place of importance; and it appears as one of the chief cities of Acarnania at the time of the Roman wars in Greece, when its name frequently occurs. When Acarnania allied itself with Philip V of Macedon against Rome in 200 BCE, although it lost Leucas because of this, and the city of Thyrreion was anointed as its new capital. At this period Thyrium was one of the places at which the meetings of the Acarnanian League were usually held. It was one of the many towns whose ruin was occasioned by the foundation of Nicopolis to which its inhabitants were removed by order of Augustus.
Its site is located near the modern Thyrio (formerly Ag. Vasilios), near Vonitsa.
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Monastiráki is located in West Greece, Greece, Europe. The coordinates are 38.8505 latitude, 20.9446 longitude.
Monastiráki has a population of approximately 1,299 people, making it a town in Greece.
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