Mystras or Mistras, also known in the Chronicle of the Morea as Myzethras or Myzithras, is a fortified town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Situated in the Taygetus range, a
Sparta is a city and municipality in the Peloponnese region of Greece, serving as the capital of the Laconia regional unit. It lies at the site of ancient Sparta within the Evrotas Valley. The municip
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…inhabited throughout the Ottoman period, when foreign travellers mistook it for ancient Sparta. In the 1830s, it was abandoned and the new town of Sparta was built, approximately eight kilometres to the east. The 2011 local government reform attached it to the municipality of Sparta. As an exceptionally…
Modern Sparta
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The entrance to the Archaeological Museum of Sparta