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Agrafa is a mountainous region in Eurytania south of Thessaly in mainland Greece. It is mainly comprised of small villages, including Krioneri, Morfovouni, Vounesi, and others. Agrafa is famous for its complete autonomy throughout the entire 400 years of Ottoman Turkish occupation of Greece and the Balkans. The word Agrafa literally translates to, unwritten. Because the Turks were unable to conquer this region, the area and its population were not recorded in the Sultan's tax register.
 
Agrafa is the third largest community in Eurytania after Domnitsa and Karpenisi. Agrafa is accessed with the road linking with GR-38 and the northern villages with a poor road to the Karditsa Prefecture. Agrafa located west-northwest of Karpenisi, east-northeast of Agrinio, south of Karditsa and east-southeast of Arta. The Agrafiotis River flows to the west and further east is the Megdova River. The Agrafa region has been populated for approximately 2,500 years. The fiercely independent spirit of its people, known as Agrafiotes, is matched by a harsh and forbidding landscape. The central Agrafiotis River valley is surrounded on three sides by a steep 2,000-meter wall of mountains, and on its south side the river drains via a series of narrow and often impassable gorges into the man-made Lake Plastiras. Agrafa has a school, a lyceum or a middle school, a gymnasium or a secondary school, churches, a post office, banks, and a few squares or plateies.

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