Inscription, Church of St Demetrios, Mystras, Peloponnese

Inscribed text registering ownership of the diocese by bishop Nikophoros Moschopoulos, 1311-12, on a column in the nave of the Church of St Demetrios, built c. 1262, in Mystras, a ruined fortified town, capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea, 14th - 15th century, on Mount Taygetus near ancient Sparta, in Peloponnese, Laconia, Greece. The Byzantine town full of churches decorated with frescoes was also settled by the Ottomans but was abandoned in the 1830s and is now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1262 Agios Byzantium Demetrios Despotate Diocese Fortified Frescoes Hagios Hellenic Laconia Lakonia Language Mistras Morea Mystras Myzethras Myzithras Ottomans Ownership Palaeologan Peloponnese Registering Settled Sparta Taugetus Taygetos Taygetus

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