Kravara

Kravara (Greek: Κράβαρα) is a mountainous region north of Nafpaktos locked between the rivers Mornos and Evinos. More broadly, it is the Southern Pindus, also called the Nafpaktia Mountains. Administratively, it falls within the territory of Aetolia-Acarnania.[1]

Тhe Kravara.

The name appears for the first time in Ottoman times, as the Land of Kravari (Ottoman Turkish: Kravari Ili), part of the Sanjak of Tirhala, in a cadaster dated to 1454/55.[2]

To the west of Kravara is the historical region of Apokouro in Panaitoliko[3], coinciding wit theh municipality Thermo, and further west in the Acarnanian Mountains was medieval Little Wallachia.

The Varnakova monastery is located in Kravara.[4]

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  1. François Pouqueville, Voyage de la Grèce, t. 4, Paris, Firmin Didot, 530 p., chap. VII, p. 31–33.
  2. Τα Κράβαρα και οι Κραβαρίτες
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  4. THE HISTORY OF THE MONASTERY OF VARNAKOVA
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