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  Mystra St. Demetrios - The Metropolis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Proceeding a short distance one sees on the the right a stone with dark stains that suggest drops blood is protected by a grille on the exterior wall of the courtyard.
This is traditionally believed to be the spot where Ananias Lambardis, Metropolitan bishop of Lacedaemonia, was executed my the Turks, because he was one of the instigators of the insurrection which ended, three years later, in the uprising of Orloff.
The manner whereby the transformation of the shape of the roof was effected - and the reason for which is unknown- resulted the complete destruction of a series of frescoes depicting scenes from the life of Christ on the north side and in lopping off the upper part of others in the central nave.
www.laconia.org /Mystra1_ST_demetrios.htm   (1036 words)

  
 Mystra - History
After this victory, William did in effect consider launching an attack on Mystra.; but a revolt of the natives of Arcadia, which he could not ignore, caused him to postpone the enterprise.
The constant friction and frequent campaigns between Byzantines and Franks during the course of these two years created a feeling of insecurity among the inhabitants of lacedaemonia, as Sparta was called in the Middle Ages.
They consequently begun to abandon their homes in the plain and to settle at the foot of the hill, where they felt more secure under the shallow of the castle of Mystra.
www.laconia.org /Mystra1_history.htm   (1551 words)

  
 Talk:Pericles - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The navy (Athens' stongest military force) would then embark of campains against the Peloponessian states, usually disrupting supplies for the spartan soldiers.
They also encouraged internal instability in Sparta, by 'stirring' the Helots (slave population in Lacedaemonia).
The perklean policy according Thucididyes, also involved avoiding general war with sparta (the spartan army was much larger, better disciplined and was by reputation 'invinsible'.).
www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Talk:Pericles   (560 words)

  
 Peloponnese, Lakonia, Mani, Monemvasia, Mystras, Elafonissos, Travel Greece
Mistras offered security, so that the inhabitants of neighbouring Lacedaemonia, as Sparti was then called, made their homes on the slopes surrounding the fortress.
The settlement and the Hora (town) were protected by a wall, but the new houses were built outside the enclosure.
Mistras became in the mid-14th century the capital of the Peloponnese and the seat of the Seignioly (Despotate) of the Moreas, with a ruler or despot who enjoyed a tenure for life.
www.thegreektravel.com /lakonia/mystras.html   (793 words)

  
 Sparta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Sparta was the ruling polis, but the area it controlled was Lacedaemonia.
The number of Spartiate (full citizens) was always less than 5% of the total population of over 200,000 in Lacedaemonia.
Though Spartan society was based on duties owed to the state rather than any notion of individual rights, it was the only Greek city-state that provided education for girls similar to that given to boys, and women enjoyed relatively more rights there than anywhere else in Greece.
www.atharta.com /Sparta   (97 words)

  
 Spartan Villages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It seems that the worship of lakinthos (Hyacinth), the personification of vegetation, had been established from those times.
lakinthos was the handsome youth so loved by Apollo, the legendary son of Diomede and king Amyklas of Lacedaemonia.
Even after the settlement of the Dorians in Sparta, Amykles, an Achaean centre, retained its independence for a long time.
idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/spartan_villages.htm   (211 words)

  
 Nikon - Byzantine Art and Orthodox Tradition - OramaWorld.Com
Forsaking his parents and homeland, he passed throughout the parts of the East, crying to all men, "Repent ye," because of which he received this name.
Finally, he came to Lacedaemonia of the Peloponnesus, where he built a church in honour of Christ our Saviour.
After having dwelt there many years in solitude, and having converted many from paganism, he departed to the Lord about the end of the ninth century.
www.oramaworld.com /product_info.php/products_id/10065   (146 words)

  
 CHARLEMAGNE’S LIE OF 794 AND THE PRIMITIVE GREEK ROMANS
They were joined by some of the Greek Sabines of Italy who had been settled on the adjacent Quirinal Hill.
The Sabines had migrated to Italy from Lacedaemonia in Southern Greece.
The Romans continued the process of subduing and including the rest of the Greek Latins and Sabines into their political system.
www.vic.com /~tscon/romanity/romans.htm   (2424 words)

  
 Mystra
As a result, various churches and monasteries were built in the city.
As a result various holy orders and the bishop of Lacedaemonia moved into the city.
All this work increased the importance of the city.
members.tripod.com /apollo_photocards/photos/greece/mystra/history.html   (928 words)

  
 Mystras the Medieval town
Monemvasia and so pass through the whole of Laconia.
There it was that he came and built a castle on this wisely chosen inaccessible hill in order to rule over the whole of Lacedaemonia.
However, the sovereign with his iron-clad knights did not enjoy this land for long.
greece-private.com /mystras.htm   (670 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Spartan: Technically, an inhabitant of the POLIS called "Sparta", which was really an amalgamation (SYNOECISM) of five villages or townships inside the geographical area called Lacedaemonia.
When used loosely, the term Spartan meant a Spartiate, full citizen.
PERIOIKOI: `Those dwelling round about': natives of Lacedaemonia who did not have full citizen rights; farmers and merchants mostly perioikoi.
web.ics.purdue.edu /~bmckinne/English102C/sparta-c.htm   (480 words)

  
 A Look at Closed Harbor Sites in the Ancient Mediterranean
The first we hear about Phalasarna is from a document dating to 350 B.C.E. written by Scylax of Caryanda.
"A day's sail from Lacedaemonia to the Cape of Crete on which the first town is situated toward the setting sun and is called Phalasarna; it has a closed harbor" (1).
After that she goes under the radar until Dionysus of Kalliphion writes a single sentence noting her existence in the second century A.D. Archaeological remains indicate that the city had an occupation as early as the Middle Minoan period (2).
www.softassteel.com /files/bio/work/harbors.html   (4755 words)

  
 Sparta-Foreclosures Georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Located at the crossroads of the county's two main corridors -- US 21 and NC 18 -- Sparta is the physical center as well...
Sparta - Lacedaemonia - Resources on the Ancient Greek City of Sparta
Resources on the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta (Lacdaemonia) whose citizens were known for their harsh lifestyle and terse (laconic) speech.
www.foreclosure-georgia-us.info /sparta.html   (542 words)

  
 lachesisfalling - Lachesis Falling RPG - Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War (abridged): Table of Contents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Note that in these selections there are a number of silent changes to Crawley's text, apart from the omissions.
These affect certain names: Sparta and Spartan have replaced Lacedaemonia and Lacedaemonian, Troy has replaced Ilium, Persian has replaced Median, and so on.
Moreover, some of Crawley's longer paragraphs have been broken up into shorter units.
www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/thucydides/tofc.htm   (675 words)

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