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"Mystras (Greek: ???????, ????????, Myzithras in the Chronicle of the Morea) is a fortified town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Sparti, of which it is a municipal unit. Situated on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta, it served as the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea in the 14th and 15th centuries, experiencing a period of prosperity and cultural flowering. The site remained inhabited throughout the Ottoman period, when it was mistaken by Western travellers for ancient Sparta. In the…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2009Lost capital of ByzantiumHarvard University Press · 144 pages · 9780674034051
- Other · English · 2009Lost capital of ByzantiumTauris Parke Paperbacks · 144 pages · 9781845118952
- Other · English · 1980Thames and Hudson · 160 pages · 9780500250716
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