Cities, Towns and Villages in the Thesprotia Prefecture - Paramythia, Filiates, Igoumenitsa, Sagiada, Souli, Margariti, Syvota, Parapotamos (Paperback)

Chapters: Paramythia, Filiates, Igoumenitsa, Sagiada, Souli, Margariti, Syvota, Parapotamos, Keramitsa, Perdika, Acherontas. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Paramythia - The town's population is about 10,000. Paramythia is sea of the Paramythia Municipality which includes 22 municipal departments. Paramythia was a small Byzantine town built around 1,000 A.D. It lies in an amphitheatre at an altitude of 750 m, at the foot of Mount Koryla, between the Acheron and the Kalamas rivers. The Koryla range (altitude 1,658 m) lies on the eastern side of the city and the Chionistra (1,644 m) to the Northeast. At the city limits is the Kokytos River, known from mythology. Among the city's attractions are the Byzantine bath, the Koulia tower, the castle of Paramythia and the Elea's castle, unique for its structure watch. Paramythia's valley is one of the largest in Thesprotia Prefecture and one of the major residential and cultural area in Epirus. The archaeological remainder - stone tools, ceramics from the Paramythia's valley, of the richest area in Greece, date from the latest Paleolithic and the copper age- attest the uninterrupted inhabitancy in all Stone age. South of Paramythia, in 'Tsardakia' area, a polygonal wall and a box-shape tomb, date in the latest Copper age, are among the few samples of the Mycenaean culture in Thesprotia. The city of Fotiki was named after Fotios, the leader of Chaonians. Recording the historical ages, in the eastern side of Kalamas river, among natural fortified hills, or mountains' foothills, was constructed fortified settlements (Five churches, Petrovitsa, Gousbany, Plakoti, Kallithea etc.), which controlled the Kalamas' valley. In the same period grew a settlements' chain in the Valley of Kokytos River (Paramythia, E...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=6171427