Religious Festivals and Fairs in Boeotia |
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Religious transformations in Boeotia in Late Antiquity, 3rd-7th centuries |
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The entry will examine the last manifestations of traditional cults in Boeotia (polytheism, paganism) and the implantation of Christianity. On this process, our sources are primarily archaeological, and epigraphical, since literary sources on religious life in the late antique period in Boeotia are quite rare. |
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Routes and harbours in Byzantine Boeotia |
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In Boeotia there was a main road axis along the river Kephisos, the demosia hodos (public road) connecting large centers in Boeotia with Athens and Corinth to the south and with Thermopylae to the north. Other roads led to its harbors, such as Euripos, Antikyra, Livadostra and Anthedona, through which Boeotia preserved contacts, both at a local level and with other regions of the Empire as well with Western centers. |
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Rural economy in late Μedieval and Ottoman Boeotia |
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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... |
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