Arachthos is a former municipality in the Arta peripheral unit, Epirus

Epirus (periphery)

Epirus , formally the Epirus Region , is a geographical and administrative region in northwestern Greece. It borders the regions of West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, West Greece to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and the country of Albania to the north. The...

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Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nikolaos Skoufas

Nikolaos Skoufas (municipality)

Nikolaos Skoufas is a municipality in the regional unit of Arta, Greece, named after Nikolaos Skoufas, a leader of the Greek independence movement...

, of which it is a municipal unit. It is situated along the lower course of the river Arachthos, south of Arta

Arta, Greece

Arta is a city with a rich history in northwestern Greece, capital of the peripheral unit of Arta, which is part of Epirus region. The city was known in ancient times as Ambracia . Arta is famous for its old bridge located over the Arachthos River, situated west of downtown...

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Population 6,011 (2001). The seat of the municipality was in Neochori

Neochori, Arta

Neochori is a village in the Arta regional unit, Epirus, Greece. It was the seat of the former Arachthos municipality. As of 2001, the town's population was 2,207....

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Near Arachthos, there is the static inverter plant of HVDC Italy-Greece

HVDC Italy-Greece

The HVDC Italy–Greece is a monopolar submarine power cable link between Italy and Greece with a maximum transmission power of 500 megawatts. It went in service in 2001. The HVDC Italy-Greece begins in the static inverter plant Galatina situated at in Italy and is implemented in its first as...

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