Mystras
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 20, 2021 07:04 PM
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History
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A fortified town in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Mystras was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1989.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/410249370
37.068681, 22.375808
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- location of Mystras (AD 1200 - AD 1450)
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- Mystras (English, modern)
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Pleiades
Mystras, referred to as the 'wonder of the Morea', dates to 1249 and was built by the prince of Achaia, William of Villehardouin. It was conquered by the Byzantines, then subsequently occupied by both the Turks and the Venetians. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the site was the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea. The city was abandoned in 1832.
Jeffrey Becker, Ingrid Luo, Tom Elliott, and Brady Kiesling, 'Mystras: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/410249370> [accessed: 21 September 2023]
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