Kravara

Kravara (Greek: Κράβαρα) is a historical socio-cultural mountain region[1] in Aetolia-Acarnania, central Greece.

The name appears for the first time in Ottoman times, as the Land of Kravari (Ottoman Turkish: Kravari Ili), part of the Sanjak of Tirhala, in a cadaster dated to 1454/55.

[2] To the west of Kravara is the historical region of Apokouros in Panaitoliko,[3] coinciding with the modern municipality of Thermo, and further west in the Acarnanian Mountains was medieval Little Vlachia.

The Varnakova monastery is located in Kravara.

[4] As per the traditions of Kravarite, the mulberry trees found in Perista were planted by Jews in the 17th century.