The Aspropotamos–Spercheios line or Achelöos–Spercheios line () was Greece's first land border with the

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, established by the

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. The border was decided upon by the three

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(

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and the

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). It would start at the mouth of the

Achelous River The Achelous (, ''Akhelôios''), also Acheloos, is a river in Epirus, western Greece. It is long. It formed the boundary between Acarnania and Aetolia of antiquity. It empties into the Ionian Sea. In ancient times its spirit was venerated as ...

(then known as "Aspropotamos"), pass through

Artotina Artotina () is a mountain village in the municipal unit of Vardousia, northwestern Phocis, Greece. It is situated on the western slope of the Vardousia mountains, near the source of the river Evinos, at about 1200 m elevation. Artotina is located 1 ...

along the ridge of

Mount Oeta Mount Oeta (; , polytonic , ''Oiti'', also transcribed as ''Oite'') is a mountain in Central Greece. A southeastern offshoot of the Pindus range, it is high. Since 1966, the core area of the mountain is a national park, and much of the rest has ...

and reach the

Malian Gulf The Malian or Maliac Gulf () is a gulf in the western Aegean Sea. It forms part of the coastline of Greece's region of Phthiotis. The gulf stretches east to west to a distance of , depending on the definition, and is very shallow, with a maximum ...

at the mouth of the

Spercheios River The Spercheios (, ''Sperkheiós''), also known as the Spercheus from its Latin name, is a river in Phthiotis in central Greece. It is long, and its drainage area is . It was worshipped as a god in the ancient Greek religion and appears in some ...

, passing south of the city of Zitouni (modern

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), which would remain in Ottoman hands. The island of

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(Negroponte), the

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, and the

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including the island of

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would become part of Greece. Πρωτόκολλο Της Ανεξαρτησίας Του Ελληνικού Κράτους - ...
/ref> It was replaced in the

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by the

Ambracian Gulf The Ambracian Gulf, also known as the Gulf of Arta or the Gulf of Actium, and in some official documents as the Amvrakikos Gulf (), is a gulf of the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece. About long and wide, it is one of the largest enclosed gulfs ...

– Pagasetic Gulf line (or

Arta–Volos line The Arta–Volos line () or Ambracian–Pagasetic line () was the land border of the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire between 1832 and the Annexation of Thessaly in 1881. It was named after the two principal cities in proximity of the bor ...

), which had already been envisaged in the

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as the northern boundary of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty.

References

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