Nafpaktos known as Lepanto during part of its history, is a town and a former municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, West Greece, situated on a bay on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, 3 km (2 mi) west of the mouth of the river Mornos. It is named for Naupaktos an important Athenian naval station in the Peloponnesian war. As a strategically crucial possession controlling access to the Gulf […]