Karytaina
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Karytaina or Karitaina is a village and a community in Arcadia, Greece. Karytaina is situated on a hill on the right bank of the river Alpheios, near its confluence with the Lousios. The village dates
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Belltower with the Karytaina Castle in the background
Old tower house
Kingdom of the Morea
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The Kingdom of the Morea, or Realm of the Morea, was the official name the Republic of Venice gave to the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece after it was conquered from the Ottoman Empire during
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…until the time of the Ottoman conquest in 1460. The 17th-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi mentions the town but did not visit it, while under Venetian rule (1687–1715) only the town, and not the castle, is mentioned by the Venetian governors. During the second period of Ottoman rule after 1715, the castle…
The fortified town of Nafplio in the 16th century
Venetian Lion of Saint Mark and halberds from the time of the "Kingdom of the Morea" in the National Historical Museum, Athens.