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{{Infobox Greek Dimos
 |name = Argithea
 |name_local = Αργιθέα
|type = municipality
|image_map = 2011 Dimos Argitheas.png
 |periph = [[Thessaly]]
|periphunit         =  [[Karditsa (regional unit)|Karditsa]]
|pop_municipality   = 3496
|area_municipality  = 372.9
|pop_municunit   = 1421
|area_municunit   = 150.4
|pop_community   = 155
 |population_as_of = 2021
 |elevation = 
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 |licence = ΚΑ
 |mayor = 
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'''Argithea''' ({{langx|el|Αργιθέα|Argithéa}}) is a village and a historic municipality in the [[Karditsa (regional unit)|Karditsa regional unit]] of [[Greece]]. The seat of the municipality is in [[Anthiro]].<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL8-SrPzKAEPjjtIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIukI0UzcPsWCK0LpLhpa7rhiWB4R5ntTnoWw7U8E1Amg.|title=ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text|language=el|publisher=[[Government Gazette (Greece)|Government Gazette]]}}</ref> The name derives from ἀργός + θέα (argós + théa, “white view”).

==Municipality==
The municipality Argithea was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:<ref name=Kallikratis/>
*[[Acheloos (municipality)|Acheloos]]
*[[Anatoliki Argithea]]
*Argithea

The municipality has an area of 372.877 km<sup>2</sup>, the municipal unit 150.377 km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }}</ref>

==History==
Anciently, Argithea or '''Argethia''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀργεθία}}) was the capital of [[Athamania]] straddling the border between [[Ancient Epirus]] and [[Ancient Thessaly]], to the left of the main stream of the [[Achelous River]].<ref>{{Cite Livy|Liv. 38.1.}}</ref> The first evidence we have of the place is [[epigraphy|epigraphic]]. In the fourth century&nbsp;BCE, the appointment of a [[proxenos]] of Argithea is documented. Circa 230-220&nbsp;BCE, a [[theorodokoi]] for the city is appointed to receive [[theoroi]] from [[Delphi]].<ref name=Hansen>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Thessaly and Adjacent Regions|page= 727}}</ref> It was also a [[polis]] (city-state).<ref name=Hansen/>

In the time of [[Livy]] it was the capital of Athamania. In the year 189&nbsp;BCE. there was a rebellion by the [[Athamanians]] to try to reestablish [[Amynander of Athamania]] in power, which the help of the [[Aetolian League]] and this rebellion succeeded in expelling the garrison left by [[Philip V of Macedon]]. Later Philip sent more troops against Argithea in an attempt to recover the city, but the effort failed.<ref>{{Cite Livy|38, 1-2.}}</ref>

The editors of the [[Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World]] and [[Mogens Herman Hansen]] locate the ancient city at the modern village of [[Ellinika, Karditsa|Ellinika]] (or ''Hellenika'') in the community of Hellenika, municipal unit and municipality of Argithea.<ref>{{Barrington|55}}</ref><ref name=Hansen/> Ellinika is located at {{coord|39|22|54|N|21|23|30|E}}.

==References==
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