Arta

Arta (Turkish Narda, the ancient Ambracia), capital of a division of Thessaly, ceded to Greece by Turkey in 1881 (area, 395 sq. m.; pop. 31,178). The town stands on the left bank of the river Arta (the ancient Aracthus), 8 miles from its mouth in the Gulf of Arta (the ancient Ambracian Gulf), an arm of the Ionian Sea between Greece and Albania. It is the see of a Greek archbishop, and has a considerable trade. Pop. 7048, of whom more than two-thirds are Greeks.