ΤΥΠΟΣ ΛΗΜΜΑΤΟΣ
Γενικά Θέματα |
ΠΕΡΙΛΗΨΗ
Agriculture and pastoralism had been the base of medieval Boeotia's economy and prosperity, even above the lucrative silk-business, which the region was so famous for. Archaeological evidence indicates a demographic and maybe even economic peak in the 13th century, during Boeotia's Frankish period. The Black Death and the constant warfare between Byzantine, Frankish and Ottoman forces led to village-desertion and to a dramatic loss of population in the second half of the 14th century. Evidence indicates a population rise and recovery throughout the 16th century in most Boeotian villages, but the political and economic crisis that started affecting the Ottoman Empire from the 1580s onwards led to the decline of rural Boeotia in the 17th c. |
|