Listed 11 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for wider area of: "SOULI Province THESPROTIA" .
PARAMYTHIA (Municipality) THESPROTIA
ACHERODAS (Municipality) SOULI
The 67.343.000 m2 Municipality, takes up the eastern section of the valley of Kokytos, with natural boundaries towards A the river Acheron and towards B the mass of the mountains of Paramythia. The valley of Kokytos, which is considered the wealthiest region in stone tools in all of Greece, dating back to the Earlier Paleolithic period up to the Copper Period, comprised one of the most important habitation area of the prehistoric man in Thesprotia.
PARAMYTHIA (Municipality) THESPROTIA
SOULI (Community) THESPROTIA
The fourth in size - 93.230.000 m2 - Local Authority of the Prefecture of Thesprotia with a population of 1.000 residents, as the especially mountainous region, at the borders of the Prefectures of Thesprotia and Ioannina, has been severely blighted by emigration
FOTIKI (Ancient city) THESPROTIA
A roman colony and, afterwards, a byzantine city.
OZDINA (Byzantine settlement) PARAMYTHIA
This Byzantine city (Ozdina) was built on a rocky hill called Paleochora, on an unknown ancient settlement. On the site there are also two well-preserved post-Byzantine churches.
FOTIKI (Ancient city) THESPROTIA
Identified by inscriptions (CIL III, Suppl. 2. 12299), it is N of
Paramythia in S Epeiros. A city of Roman and Byzantine times stood on the watershed
between the Acheron valley and the Thyamis valley. Its predecessor of Greek times,
situated above Paramythia, was strongly fortified then and later (Procop. Aed.
4.1.34); there are remains of ancient walls, gateways and rock cuttings, which
indicate a circuit wall ca. 2100 m long.
N.G.L. Hammond, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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