Veligosti (, before 1918: Σαμαρά - ''Samara''Name changes of settlements in Greece
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Falaisia Falaisia (, before 1918: Μπούρα - ''Boura'') is a village and a former municipality in southwestern Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Megalopoli, of which it is a municipal ...

, Arcadia,

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. It is situated on a low hill, on the left bank of a tributary of the river

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. It is 2 km west of Leontari, 3 km north of

Ellinitsa Ellinitsa () is a village in the municipal unit of Falaisia, in Arcadia, Greece. It is located on a hillside, 2 km west of Potamia, 3 km southwest of Leontari, 4 km southeast of Paradeisia and 11 km south of Megalopoli. Pop ...

, 4 km east of Paradeisia and 9 km south of

Megalopoli Megalopoli () is a town in the southwestern part of the regional unit of Arcadia, southern Greece. It is located in the same site as ancient Megalopolis ( literally ''large/great city''). When it was founded in 371 BCE, it was the first large urba ...

Population

History

Veligosti was founded during the

Byzantine era The Byzantine calendar, also called the Roman calendar, the Creation Era of Constantinople or the Era of the World (, also or ; 'Roman year since the creation of the universe', abbreviated as ε.Κ.), was the calendar used by the Eastern Orth ...

and the ruins of the Byzantine settlement and a tower are still visible today. During the Frankish period, according to the ''

Chronicle of the Morea ''The Chronicle of Morea'' () is a long 14th-century history text, of which there are four extant versions: in French, Greek (in verse), Italian and Aragonese. More than 9,000 lines long, the ''Chronicle'' narrates events of the Franks' estab ...

'',

Geoffrey I Villehardouin Geoffrey I of Villehardouin () (''c.'' 1169 – ''c.'' 1229) was a French knight from the County of Champagne who joined the Fourth Crusade.Evergates 2007, p. 246.Setton 1976, p. 24.Longnon 1969, p. 242. He participated in the conquest of the Pelo ...

made it a

barony Barony may refer to: * Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron * Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron * Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...

(one of the twelve in the Peloponnese). The barony was destroyed in about 1300, and during the

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it lost its importance.

References

*''The Franks in the Peloponnese'', H. F. Tozer,

Journal of Hellenic Studies ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in Hellenic studies. It also publishes reviews of recent books of importance to Hellenic studies. It was established in 1880 and is published by Camb ...

, Vol. 4, 1883 (1883), pp. 165–236,

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{{Falaisia Populated places in Arcadia, Peloponnese

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