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	Mystras
		In the next two centuries Mystras became known as "the Florence of the East" and was very respected by both the countries to the West and the Byzantine Empire.
		In 1715 it was recaptured by the Turks.
		Mystras was one of the first cities to be liberated from the Turks in 1821.
	www.idcnet.com /~dchristo/mystras.htm (628 words)

	Mystras
		Mystras (also Mistra, Mystra and Mistras Greek: Μύστρας) was a fortified town in Morea (the Peloponnesus), on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta.
		Mystras became the seat of the Latin Despotate of Morea, a vassal state of the Latin Principality of Achaea, established in 1205 after the conquest of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.
		Mystras was also the last centre of Byzantine scholarship; the Neoplatonist philosopher George Gemistos Plethon lived there until his death in 1452.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/my/mystras.html (361 words)

	Mystras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mystras (also Mistra, Mystra and Mistras Greek: Μυστράς, Μυζηθράς Mizithras or Myzithras in the chronicle of Morea) was a fortified town in Morea (the Peloponnesus), on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta.
		In 1249, Mystras became the seat of the Latin Principality of Achaea, established in 1205 after the conquest of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, and Prince William II Villehardouin, a grand-nephew of the Fourth Crusade historian Geoffrey of Villehardouin, built a palace there.
		In 1261, the Latins ceded Mystras and other forts in the southeastern Peloponnese as ransom for William II, who had been captured in Pelagonia, and Michael VIII Palaeologus made the city the seat of the new Despotate of Morea.
	www.donkeylink.com /en/Mystras.htm (425 words)

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		The area unfolded to a remarkable city and Mystras became the capital of Peloponnesus with permanent lord who had the title of "despot", so it was created the "despotato of Morea".
		Mystras began to decline in the years of the Turkish rule, although it continued to enumarate over 40 thousand of inhabitants and have a flourishing trade.
		In the cathedral church is also roofed the Byzantine Museum of Mystra in which, exept the bas-reliefs found in the area, it worths to see the part of the reddish with the hologram and the coat of arms of Isabella Lousinian, the inscriptions, the byzantine pictures, the wall paintings and the bric-a-bracs.
	hellas.teipir.gr /prefectures/english/Lakonias/Mistras.htm (1089 words)

	Athens News
		Mystras was one of Byzantium's last spiritual and artistic centres, drawing thinkers and artists from Constantinople and the West.
		Mystras is separated into three zones: the castle, the Upper Town of the Despots and the Lower Town; the whole is surrounded by walls.
		According to the legend, Constantine Palaeologos was crowned emperor of Constantinople on the marble plaque with the Byzantine eagle on the floor.
	www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13138&t=06&m=A24&aa=1 (2376 words)

	Greece Travel: Byzantine Mystras
		The impregnable fortress that crowns its summit was built in 1249 by the Frank Guillaume II de Villehardouin, fourth Frankish Prince of Morea and Duke of Achaia, to control the region of Lakonia, and especially to protect it from marauding Slavs in the Tagetos region.
		Monemvasia gave way to Mystras as central fortress, and from 1349 the peninsula was governed by various Byzantine despots (and was called the Despotate of Mystras).
		During its peak in the 14th and early 15th centuries, Mystras was the main cultural and intellectual center of the Byzantine world.
	www.greeceathensaegeaninfo.com /destinations_greece_mystras_laconia.htm (1187 words)

	MYSTRAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mystras est devenu le siège du Despotate latin de Morea, un état vassal du principality latin d'Achaea, établi en 1205 après la conquête de Constantinople pendant la quatrième croisade.
		Mystras et le reste de Morea sont devenus relativement prospères après 1261, comparé au reste de l'empire.
		Mystras était également le dernier centre de la bourse bizantine ; le philosophe George Gemistos Plethon de Neoplatonist a vécu là jusqu'à sa mort en 1452.
	www.faktis.com /wiki/fr/my/Mystras.htm (341 words)

	Encyclopedie :: Mystras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mystras meestal gespeld als Mistrás is een laat-Byzantijnse spookstad op de Peloponnesos, zo'n 7 km ten westen van het moderne Sparta.
		The castle at Mystras on the Peloponnesus was built by William de Villehardouincaptivity, William handed over the castle to the Byzantine emperor.
		The Byzantine stronghold of Mystras boasts palaces, churches and a nunnery, notscenes from the life of Christ and hell.
	www.encyclopedie.ws /Mystras (532 words)

	Mystra Introduction
		A Byzantine << Basileus and Emperor of the Romans>> regained his throne at Constantinople in 1261 and henceforth Mystra became a center of culture and civilization destined to illuminate the art and spirit of the Byzantine age for the last time.
		Mystra's achievement is a very important one; but it is the sphere of art in particular that the modern traveler will be most impressed.
		Early characteristics of fresco-work are found in the painted decoration of the Metropolis (13th -14th centuries) which already foreshadows the final flowering of the Palaelogue period.
	www.laconia.org /Mystra1_intro.htm (234 words)

	Third Wave Travel - The Byzantine Empire - Mystras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The entire Byzantine city of Mystras is an open-air museum, evidence of a glorious era.
		The castle of Mystras was built in 1249 by the Franks but in 1262 it passed to the Greeks and for two hundred years it was one of the last outposts of Byzantine civilization.
		Mystras both castle and town was a creation of the last centuries of the Byzantine Empire and has preserved its byzantine character to our own time.
	www.thirdwavetravel.com /Mystras.htm (469 words)

	MYSTRAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mystras war eine verstärkte Stadt in Morea, auf Millitorr Taygetos, nahe altem Sparta.
		Mystras wurde der Sitz des lateinischen Despotate von Morea, ein vassal Zustand des lateinischen Fürstentums von Achaea, hergestellt 1205 nach der Eroberung von Konstantinopolise während des vierten Kreuzzugs.
		Er und andere Gelehrte, die in Mystras gegründet wurden, beeinflußten die italienische Renaissance, besonders nachdem er den Kaiser John VIII Palaeologus nach Florenz 1439 begleitete.
	www.faktedon.com /wiki/de/my/Mystras.htm (306 words)

	Archaeological Museum of Mystras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		he Archaeological Museum of Mystras is housed in the two-storeyed building at the west wing of the north courtyard of the Cathedral of St. Demetrios.
		It is one of the slabs used in the paving of the floor of the church of Peribleptos at Mystras.
		The second vase is a jug made of red clay, decorated with painted spirals on the shoulder, dated to the end of the 12th century A.D. Fragments of frescoes from ruined churches at Mystras.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/212/21205m/e212em01.html (473 words)

	Die Ruinenstadt Mystras (Mistras) auf dem Peloponnes in Griechenland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Die mittelalterliche Ruinestadt Mystras (auch "Mistras" geschrieben) liegt auf dem Peloponnes in der Region Lakonien, 5 km nordwestlich von Sparta auf einem steil aus der Ebene ragenden Berg.
		Aus der Kreuzfahrerburg Mystras entstand in den folgenden Jahrzehnten sehr schnell eine blühende Stadt, die Sitz eines Orthodoxen Bischofs war und schnell zum kulturellen Zentrum der Region wurde.
		In den Blütezeiten sollen hier bis zu 42.000 Menschen gelebt haben.
	www.poseidon-peloponnes.de /mystras.php (343 words)

	Mystras \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Mystras (also Mistra, Mystra and Mistras Greek: Μυστράς, Μυζηθράς Mizithras or Myzithras in the chronicle of Morea) was a fortified town in Morea (the Peloponnesus), on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta.
		It lies approximately eight kilometres west of the modern town of Sparti.In 1249, Mystras became the seat of the Latin Principality of Achaea, established in 1205 after the conquest of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, and Prince William II Villehardouin, a grand-nephew of the Fourth Crusade historian Geoffrey of Villehardouin, built a palace there.
		In 1261, the Latins ceded Mystras and other forts in the southeastern Peloponnese as ransom for William II, who had been captured in Pelagonia, and Michael VIII Palaeologus made the city the seat of the new Despotate of Morea.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Mystras (211 words)

	Sparta, Mystras the medieval town
		Houses covered the hill, mansions and palaces, churches and fortified monasteries were built and the densely settled city was encircled by two enclosure walls.
		Mystras developed at such a rate that a hundred years after the building of the castle, in 1348, it became the capital of the Despotate of Morea with Manuel Kantakouzenos as first Despot, son of the Emperor John VI.
		The gloomy world of the ruins remained as a testimony of a state which in its day constituted the unique hope of the revival of an empire which was slowly dying and which is today the sole example of a medieval settlement with its castle, the fortification walls encircling it, its palaces, churches and mansions.
	www.greecetaxi.gr /index/mystras.html (698 words)

	Archaeological Site of Mystras - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		At the end of the 14th century, Mystras was the centre of the Peloponnesus and flourished as never before.
		The focuspoints are the Byzantine churches of Mystras.
		Mystras is one of these, but unusual, in that it is now an uninhabited and largely ruined city.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/mystras.html (789 words)

	Mystras Travel information and services by Windmills Travel
		For two centuries Mystras was at the forefront of developments and had a brilliant history full of glory, splendour and political, social and cultural contributions.
		Mystras offered security, so that the inhabitants of neighbouring Lacedaemonia, as Sparti was then called, made their homes on the slopes surrounding the fortress.
		Mystras 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.windmillstravel.com /destination.php?id=305&type=city (329 words)

	Athens News
		Once the seat of the Morea, as the Peloponnese was called by the Franks, Mystras later became a symbol of Byzantium, luring scholars and artists from throughout the Byzantine Empire.
		Abandoned shortly after the modern Greek state was created, Mystras stood stubbornly on the lower slopes of Mount Taygetos even as its population seeped to the modern towns of Sparta and Neos Mystras.
		Later, as Constantinople faltered, Mystras flourished, and its churches are decorated with some of the finest examples of Byzantine frescoes.
	www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.prnt_article?e=C&f=13032&t=06&m=A24&aa=1 (1490 words)

	Mystras Old City
		Suspended on the side of Taigetos Mountain, 5 km on the West side of the town of Sparta, the dead city of Mystras casts a silent gaze over the waters of Evrotas river.
		Mystras, the 'wonder of the Morea', was built as an amphitheatre around the fortress erected in 1249 by the prince of Achaia, William of Villehardouin.
		Reconquered by the Byzantines, then occupied by the Turks and the Venetians, the city was abandoned in 1832, leaving only the breathtaking medieval ruins, standing in a beautiful landscape.
	members.tripod.com /tai95112/mystras.html (109 words)

	The Stutz's Travel Pictures
		Mystras grew so large and was in such a strategic location that it was considered the effective Capitol of the Byzantine Empire from 1380 to 1460.
		Mosaics are made by cementing small pebbles, jewels or gold pieces to the wall or the floor to create a large scene.
		Most the churches in Mystras still have fragments of frescoes and mosics on the interior walls.
	stutzfamily.com /TravPix/Greece/mystras.html (470 words)

	Hellenic Ministry of Culture \| Mystras
		The castle on the top of the hill was founded in 1249 by the Frankish leader William II de Villeharduin.
		In 1448 the last emperor of Byzantium, Constantine XI Palaeologos, was crowned at Mystras.
		For a short period Mystras came under the control of the Venetians (1687-1715) but was again taken over by the Turks.
	odysseus.culture.gr /h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=2397 (148 words)

	Peloponnese, Lakonia, Mani, Monemvasia, Mystras, Elafonissos, Travel Greece
		Magnificent, spectacular a glorious place, Mystras (5 Km north-west of Sparti) is one of the most exciting cities in Peloponnese.
		The most significant -because better preserved- are the Laskaris mansion near Marmara, the Frangopoulos mansion between the Perivleptos and the Pantanassa, and the Palataki near Agios Nikolaos in Pano Hora; the various stages of its construction place it between the second half of the 13th and the first years of the 15th century.
		The museum of Mystras is housed in the two-storeyed building at the west wing of the north courtyard of the Cathedral of Agios Demetrios.
	www.thegreektravel.com /lakonia/mystras.html (793 words)

	Gythion & Mystras
		Slept like babies after all the food and drink, and woke as we were docking in Gythion after the long passage along the west side of the Peloponnese.
		After breakfast, we boarded a bus for our “complimentary” tour of Mystras – after passing through modern Sparta, which was built on top of the ancient ruins (sadly).
		Mystras is fascinating – the ruins of a
	www.patstravels.com /gython_&_mystra.htm (240 words)

	Mystical Mystras: A Castle-Town's Lure
		Ironically, it was the irreversible shrinking of the Byzantine realm and the continuous war and instability that laid the foundations for Mystras' impressive cultural, artistic and social life.
		Plethon's decision to settle in Mystras reflects the town's importance.
		According to the legend, Constantine Palaeologos was crowned emperor of Constantinople on the marble plaque with the Byzantine eagle on the floor.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /mysticalmystras.html (2319 words)

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