Peta (Greek: Πέτα) is a municipality in the
prefecture of Arta,
Greece. Population 4,904 (2001). Its 2001 population was 1,916 for the town, 3,896 for the municipal district and 4,904 for the municipality. Sellades is linked with the
GR-30 (
Volos -
Farsala -
Karditsa - Arta) connecting the
GR-30 (
Patras -
Antirrio -
Agrinio -
Arta -
Ioannina) along with Ioannina and the
Pindus mountains along with
Karditsa. Peta is located north of
Amfilochia, northeast of
Arta, south-southeast
Ioannina and east of
Preveza. The
Arachthos River and its reservoir lies to the northwest.
Subdivisions
Municipal districts
Population
History
Peta was ruled by the
Ottomans with some interruption, the town was affected by the
Greek War of Independence and lost their victory to become a part of Greece. The Turks recaptured the village and continued ruling the region until 1881 with a brief Greek occupation in the 1850s but it was reconquered.
Peta finally joined Greece during the liberation of the modern southeastern Arta which included most of
Thessaly that ended the
Ottoman Turkish rule in 1881 and was one of the few towns to annex early to Greece, the tract of land northwest of Peta remained in Ottoman hands until the
Balkan Wars of 1913. Its economy slowly improved.
After
World War II and the
Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt. The population lost by nearly half between 1981 and 1991. The population slowly climbed between the 1991 and the 2001 censuses.
Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.
Notable people
