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Actium
Actium
(
Greek
: Ἄκτιον) was the ancient name of a
promontory
of western Greece in northwestern
Acarnania
, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius (
Gulf of Arta
) opposite
Nicopolis
, built by
Augustus
on the north side of the strait.
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