Place - History of Preveza

Η Preveza is located at the southwestern tip of Epirus. It borders to the north with the prefectures of Thesprotia and Ioannina, to the east with the prefecture of Arta and is bathed by the Amvrakikos gulf and to the west by the Ionian Sea. The location of the prefecture, its morphology and climate were among the main advantages that brought it to the surface. The main occupations of the inhabitants are agriculture, animal husbandry and fishing. Early fruits and vegetables, citrus fruits, oil, olives and cereals are the main products of the prefecture.

In the area of ​​the Prefecture of Preveza there are archaeological findings that prove the habitation of the area from the Paleolithic years. In ancient times the area of ​​today's city of Preveza was not inhabited. Its geography was probably quite different from today, due to the many alluviums that occurred. There are, however, data that it was a port of King Pyrrhus I, during the Hellenistic years.

Epirus was conquered by the Romans in 168 BC. On September 2 of the year 31 BC, the famous Battle of Aktio took place in the area of ​​Preveza between the navy of the allied Marcos Antonios and Cleopatra against Octavian. The only painting in the world depicting the Battle of Aktio is the oil painting by Lonenzo Castro kept in the personal office of the Director of the Greenwich Maritime Museum 30 km from London.

Today's Preveza was founded after the final decline of Nikopolis, silently as a fishing village, probably in the 11th century by Greek and Venetian fishermen from the island of Burano when it was ceded by the Byzantine Emperor to the Venetians as a "trade".

This is followed by a period of three and a half centuries during which Preveza experienced the alternating rule of the Most Peaceful Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire.

Following the Passarovic Treaty between the Hapsburgs, the Venetians and the Ottomans of 21 July 1718 AD, Preveza and Vonitsa were granted, inter alia, de jure to the Venetians, who had already occupied the two cities de facto since October 1717. A.D.

Preveza and the rest of the Venetian possessions would automatically fall to the French in 1797, after the overthrow of the Republic of Venice by Napoleon and as stipulated in the Treaty of Campo Formio. The short-lived French occupation of Preveza will be sealed the following year, 1798, with the unequal and bloody Battle of Nikopolis and the subsequent Destruction of Preveza by Ali Pasha Tepelenlis.

In March 1800 and after negotiations between the Russians and the Ottomans, Preveza, Vonitsa, Parga and Vouthroto formed the "Cape Confederation" with several privileges and relative autonomy.

On October 21, 1912, one day after the battle of Nikopolis, Preveza surrendered de jure to the Greek army after the mediation of the consuls of England, Russia and Austria.

(source: Wikipedia)

 

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