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Evrytania Prefecture Νομός Ευρυτανίας
Periphery	Central Greece
Capital	Karpenisi
Population	34,855 (2005)Ranked 53rd
Area	1,868.911 km² Ranked 35th
Population density	18.6/km²Ranked 53rd
Number of municipalities	11
Postal codes	36x xx
Area codes	22370
Licence plate code	ΚΗ
ISO 3166-2 code	GR-05
Website	www.evritania.gr

Evrytania (Greek: Ευρυτανία, alternative romanization Evritania, Latin: Eurytania) is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the periphery of Central Greece and its capital is Karpenisi (approx. 8,200 inhabitants). The prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Aitolia-Acarnania prefecture. It is almost entirely formed of mountains , including the Tymfristos and the Panaitoliko in the south, rivers including the Acheloos in the west, Agrafioti to the east, and Megdova in the east flowing down to the Ionian Sea. It is one of the least populated prefectures in Greece, and also one of the few prefectures to use only one area code. The area borders Aetolia-Acarnania to the west, southwest and south (west over the Acheloos river), Karditsa to the north, and Phthiotis to the east. Evyrtania also features a famous skiing resort located near Karpenisi on the Tymfristos mountain ; since 2004, the 1.4 km-long Tymfristos Tunnel lies to the east.

• GR-38, W, Cen., E

• List of settlements in the Evrytania prefecture

Its climate is a mixture of Mediterreanean and mountainous in the western portion, much of the area receive winter with snow and warm during the summer months.

Evrytania dates to ancient times. It fell into the Roman hands, and was later incorporated into the Byzantine Empire, before rule by the Franks and lastly the Ottomans. Unlike other parts of Greece at the time, while the eastern and the southern parts were definitively ruled by the Ottomans, the area around Agrafa managed to sustain complete autonomy with the difficuties experienced in conquest of the region. After 400 years, Evrytania finally became part of Greece following the Greek War of Independence ; the economy boomed with agriculture, whle its village economy has been poor. The areas was affected by World War II , and later the Greek Civil War ; peace finally returned to Evrytania at the end of the 1940s and its economy expanded, though the village population began to decline. It received electricity, radio communications, motor transport and fuller roads in the 1950s, the GR-38 became paved, and the prefecture's only ski resort opened. Computer and Internet connections were put in place in the 1990s.

• Pavlos Bakoyannis
• Markos Giolias, artist
• Demosthenis Goulas, artist
• Stefanos Granitsas, artist
• Christos Kagaras, painter
• Spyros Paliouras, a Greek artist
• Zacharias Papantoniou, artist
• Michael Stafylas, artist
• Lefteris Theodorou, painter

• Evrytania

Coordinates: 39°00′N, 21°40′E