We present angular dependent EPR measurements in NaV2O5 at X-band frequencies in the temperature range 4.2 K ≤ T ≤ 670 K. A detailed analysis in terms of the antisymmetric DzyaloshinskiMoriya and the anisotropic exchange interactions yields the following scheme of charge order: On decreasing temperature a quarter-filled ladder with strong charge disproportions, existing for T ≥ 100 K, is followed by zig-zag charge-order fluctuations which become long-range and static below TSP = 34 K.The observation of an exponential decrease in magnetic susceptibility in α'-NaV 2 O 5 below 34 K [1] triggered many experimental and theoretical investigations. Following the determination of the crystal structure by Carpy and Galy [2] as space group P2 1 mmn with linear chains of V 4+ ions (spin S = 1/2) separated by non magnetic V 5+ chains, NaV 2 O 5 , analogous to CuGeO 3 , was classified as inorganic spin-Peierls system. Later on a re-investigation of the crystal structure showed that NaV 2 O 5 has to be considered a quarter-filled ladder system [3][4][5] with only one vanadium site in the hightemperature phase described by space group Pmmn. The direction of the ladders is given by the crystallographic b axis. Each rung consists of two VO 5 pyramids along the a axis, which share one corner at their base. Based on this structure a charge-order transition followed by different kinds of spin order were proposed [3,6,7]. A recent investigation suggested a low-temperature phase consisting of modulated ladders with zig-zag charge order alternating with non modulated ladders with vanadium ions of intermediate valenceElectron-paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is ideally suited for the investigation of the magnetic properties of vanadium systems, since the vanadium ions themselves (as V 4+ with electron configuration 3d 1 in the present case) can be used as a microscopic probe of the spin system. In this paper we present angular dependent EPR measurements at X-band frequencies (9.48 GHz) within the temperature range 4.2 K < T < 670 K. The experimental details concerning the crystal growth of NaV 2 O 5 and EPR measurements have been described in previous papers [9]. For all temperatures the EPR spectrum consists of a single strongly exchange-narrowed Lorentzian line. The EPR intensity does not show any angular dependence within experimental error. Its temperature behavior follows that of a one dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain at high temperatures T > 100 K [10], whereas it decreases exponentially below the transition temperature T SP . Strong deviations from the model predictions were observed between 100 K and T SP [9]. The g-values are found as g a ≈ g b ≈ 1.98 and g c ≈ 1.94, which are typical for V 4+ in octahedral crystal symmetry [11], and increase only slightly below T SP . Here we confine ourselves to the discussion of the angular and temperature dependence of the resonance linewidth, which carries the information about the interactions of the vanadium spins with their local environment. Figure 1 shows the temperature de...