Makrygialos. Kitros.
Makrygialos. Kitros.
MACEDONIA
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and a fryctoria from the military camp into which the church
had been converted by the Franks, covered by the sanctuary
apse. North of the episcopal church, part of the enclosure
of the Byzantine fortress has been excavated, consisting of
the inner wall with arches of the 6th c., a subsequent outer
wall (10th c.) and a tower. Across the modern road, opposite
the church, part of the west enclosure, with a gate flanked
by two towers, has been investigated. The Byzantine settle-
ment stretching S of the fortress excavations have revealed
an inn, a bath house, houses, and a pottery workshop with a
furnace and a crucible for metal casting. The city, which had
been laid waste by the Franks in 1204, was liberated in 1219
by the Despot of Epirus Theodore Angelos and soon recov-
ered thanks to the growth of pottery workshops. In 1343-45
it participated in the civil war between John Cantacuzenos
and the legitimate heir to the throne John V Palaeologus; in
1345 it was conquered by the Serbs, in 1386-90 enslaved by
the Turks, and was eventually abandoned. The inhabitants
moved to an inland area of Pieria, to the site of the modern
village of Kitros.
114. Louloudies Kitrous, the complex (Λουλουδιές Κίτρους, το συγκρότημα)
