Paleothiva
| Paleothiva (Παλαιοθήβα) | ||
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| height | 855 m (Paleothiva peak) | |
| location | Boeotia Regional District , Central Greece | |
| Mountains | Helicon | |
| Coordinates | 38 ° 21 '51 " N , 22 ° 58' 53" E | |
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Paleothiva ( Greek Παλαιοθήβα ) is a mountain on the northern foothills of the Helikon Mountains . To the northeast of the mountain is Mount Tilphossion . The Paleothiva lies between Koroneia and Ypsilantis and separates the valleys of Koroneia and Evangelistria . In ancient times, a castle was built here, of which remains of the stone wall and a tower in the north have been preserved. In the middle of the fortress, a 5 m deep cistern was driven into the rock. During the Greek Revolution , the inhabitants of Koroneias fled here. In 1829 Dimitrios Ypsilantis used the castle ruins as a base.
The monastery of Agios Nikolaos was built on the eastern slope near a spring. There is a memorial to Dimitrios Ypsilantis, who defeated the Turkish army here on September 12, 1829 in the last battle of the Greek struggle for freedom - the Battle of Petra .
literature
- Siegfried Lauffer (Ed.): Greece. Lexicon of historical sites from the beginning to the present. CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33302-8 , p. 504
- Robert J. Buck: A History of Boeotia. The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1979, ISBN 0-88864-051-X , p. 9