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During the period of the Ottoman rule, Veria still remains a very
important commercial and intellectual center of the Greek nation.
From this period there are many two integral neighborhoods, with the
names Kiriotissa and Barbouta. Inside Barbouta exists the old Jewish neighborhood.
Veria is liberated from the Turks on the 16th October 1912.
This text (extract) is cited November 2003 from the Greek
National Tourism Organization tourist pamphlet (1998).
The famous city of Beroia, with a history uninterrupted from antiquity
to modern times, acquired particular importance as the frontiers of the medieval
Greek state continued to shrink. In 1001 the emperor Basil II Bulgaroktonos (the
Bulgar-Slayer) brought a brief Bulgarian occupation of the city to an end. Beroia
faced further disturbance from foreign conquerors (Franks, Bulgars, Serbs) in
the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1433 it was taken by the Turks.
The importance of Beroia in the closing years of Byzantium is evident
in the place it occupied in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Patriarchate of
Constantinople: an archiepiscopal see at the end of the 13th century, it became
a metropolis in the early 14th. Forty-eight historic churches still survive in
Beroia, of which 39 possess wall--paintings dating from the very beginning of
the 13th to the 18th century.
By kind permission of:Ekdotike Athenon
This text is cited Nov 2003 from the Macedonian Heritage URL below, which contains image.
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