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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".
The Assembly of Preveza (Albanian: Kuvendi i Prevezës, Greek: Συνέλευση Πρέβεζας, romanized: Synélefsi Prévezas) was a meeting of Albanian delegates from 11 to 13 January 1879, in Preveza, Ottoman Empire, aiming to halt the annexation of Epirus by Greece, following the Congress of Berlin.
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.
Rizovouni is a village and a community of Epirus in the municipality of Ziros in the Preveza regional unit. Its former name, Podogora (until 1927), [2] is of Slavic origin and means at the foot (or root) of the mountain. The late modern "Rizovouni" attributes to the Greek content of the Slavic word. [3]
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 ...
Albanian (endonym: shqip ⓘ, gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ], or arbërisht [aɾbəˈɾiʃt]) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group. [9] It is the native language of the Albanian people.
St. George's castle, as it was named after 1912, was designed by French engineers, who also oversaw the construction of the fort. It was constructed at the southern edge of Preveza in order to defend the narrow water channel leading from the Ionian Sea into the Gulf of Arta.
Petra (Greek: Πέτρα) is a historical village in the Preveza Prefecture in western Greece, near the town of Filippiada. [2] [3] According to the 2021 Greek census, it had 308 inhabitants.