Astakos (Greek: Αστακός), Latin: Astacos or Astacus is a community and a municipality located in the eastern part of the Ionian Sea but small hills does not overlook most of the islands. The place was founded in the ancient times. It is located on a road linking Agios Nikolaos and GR-5 near Messolonghi slightly east of Aitoliko. In the Byzantine Era, the town was known as Dragamesti. A tiny bay is south of Astakos. It is located SSE of Lefkada and Preveza, S of Arta and Amfilochia, W of Agrinio and NW of Aitoliko and Messolinghi.
The community has a school, a gymnasium, a church, a post office, a small port with a small pier and a beach located not far from the centre, and a square (plateia) Much of the municipality and the commune are deforested and rocky while mountains is founded in the north and northeast.
Akarnania was comprised of the western part from the Ionian sea till the Acheloos and from the Amvrakiko Gulf till the Gulf of Astakos and the estuaries of the Acheloos.
However, we have important remnants of facilities and mansions of the early age of copper at Platygiali near Astakos, (St. Pantelemonas) at Palaia Plevron and at Palaiomanina (Savria).
Graves, Astakos: On the southernmost peak of the hill of graves, at a distance of 1500 meters
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