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'''Artotina''' is a town in the municipality of [[Vardousia]], [[Phocis prefecture]], [[Central Greece]].

Its population in [[2001]] was 499 inhabitants.

Artotina is built on the western foothills of the Vardousia mountains, at an altitude of 1,180m.
Nearby is the monastery of Saint John the Forerunner where [[Athanasios Diakos]], the hero of the Greek [[War of Independence]], served as a monk.

Artotina is one of two villages that claim to be the birthplace of [[Athanasios Diakos|Diakos]]. The hero himself claimed to have been born in [[Ano Mousounitsa]] where his family originated, however the documentary evidence points to Artotina.

Besides, Diakos, Artotina was the home town of several other Kapetanei and revolutionaries: [[Loukas Kaliakoudas]], who fought alongside captain [[Lambros Katsonis]]; [[Dimos Kaltsas]]; [[Ioannis Roukis]]; [[Andritsos Siafakas]] and [[Gerantonos]].

[[Category:Phocis prefecture]]
[[Category:Cities and towns in Greece]]

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