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PARAMYTHIA (Municipality) THESPROTIA
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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