Foteino is a village (community) in the municipal unit of Kompoti

Kompoti

Kompoti is a village and a former municipality in the Arta peripheral unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nikolaos Skoufas, of which it is a municipal unit. Its 2001 population was 2,128 for the town, 2,385 for the community and 3,485 for the...

 in the peripheral unit of Arta, Greece

Greece

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. Its 2001 population was 374.

History

The old name of the village, Hósiana , appears for the first time in 1696, in a historic document in which the villages of Arta asked the Venetian Republic for protection from pirates.

In 1899, a new church was built by destroying a small old one, dating to the early 12th century

The village was constituted as a separate commune with the 186/10.08.1947 government gazette (ΦΕΚ). Until then it was part of the commune of Ano-Petra. With ΦΕΚ 195/23.07.1953, its name changed from Hosiana to Fotino, and with law 2539/1997, as part of the Kapodistrias reforms, the commune became a municipal district of the municipality of Kompoti.

See also

• Kompoti
  Kompoti
  Kompoti is a village and a former municipality in the Arta peripheral unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nikolaos Skoufas, of which it is a municipal unit. Its 2001 population was 2,128 for the town, 2,385 for the community and 3,485 for the...
  
  
• Sellades
  Sellades
  Sellades is a village in the municipal unit of Kompoti in the peripheral unit of Arta, Greece. Its 2001 population was 687 for the town and 754 for the community . Sellades is linked with the road connecting the GR-5/E55 and the Pindus mountains...
  
  
• Menidi
• Ambracian Gulf
  Ambracian Gulf
  The Ambracian Gulf, also known as the Gulf of Arta or the Gulf of Actium, and in some official documents as the Amvrakikos Gulf , is a gulf of the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece. About long and wide, it is one of the largest enclosed gulfs in Greece...
  
  
• Ionian Sea
  Ionian Sea
  The Ionian Sea , is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula to the west, southern Albania to the north, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and...
  
  
• Arachthos River
  Arachthos River
  The Arachthos is a river in eastern Epirus in Greece that flows from the Pindus mountains and begins in the area southeast of Metsovo in the Ioannina Prefecture near the Trikala Prefecture and flows by numerous village including Elliniko...