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The naval Battle of Preveza was fought off the shores of Preveza on 29 September 1538, where the Ottoman fleet of Hayreddin Barbarossa defeated a united Christian fleet under the Genoese captain Andrea Doria. This day is a Turkish Navy National Holiday, and some of today's Turkish submarines are called "Preveze".
Preveza was established as a prefecture in 1915 (Greek: Νομός Πρέβεζας). As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the regional unit Preveza was created out of the former prefecture Preveza. The prefecture had the same territory as the present regional unit.
The Battle of Preveza (also known as Prevesa) was a naval engagement that took place on 28 September 1538 near Preveza in the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece between an Ottoman fleet and that of a Holy League. The battle was an Ottoman victory which occurred in the same area in the Ionian Sea as the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. [5]
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Anthousa (Greek: Ανθούσα), known before 1927 as Rapeza (Greek: Ράπεζα [2] [3]) is a village in the municipality of Parga, Preveza regional unit of Epirus, in western Greece. In 2021 its population was 673 for the community, which also includes the village Trikorfo.
The sanjak's Kaza of Arta was ceded to Greece but the kazas of Louros and Preveza itself remained part of the empire. [ 1 ] During the First Balkan War of 1912–1913, the sanjak was occupied by the Greek Army [ 1 ] but the new Governorate of Epirus kept the Ottoman administration and officials in place until Preveza Prefecture was established ...
Ziros (Greek: Ζηρός, named after Lake Ziros) is a municipality in the Preveza regional unit, Epirus, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Filippiada . [ 2 ] The municipality has an area of 380.601 km 2 .