Thasos.
Thasos.
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565. Thasos, Limenas, basilica at the square, ground plan (Θάσος, Λιμένας, βασιλική πλατείας, κάτοψη)
a storeroom, a bath, and walls have been excavated. It is a 5th c.
complex with repairs of the 6th c., destroyed in the first decades
of the 7th c. Above the ruins stretched a Mid-Byzantine cemetery.
A few kilometres W of Limenas, at Aghia Irene, a three-aisled
Early Christian basilica with atrium (5th-6th c.) has been partly
excavated.
Skala Rachoni. (3)
At the Aghia Paraskevi site has been excavated a Late Roman
bath that had fallen into disuse before the end of the Roman era.
At the site a structure of unknown use was built in the 10th-11th c.
Skala Sotiros. (4)
On the hill of Prophitis Elias a building complex of the 6th c. has
been excavated and an Early Christian church has been discov-
ered on the summit. SW of the old village survives the Byzantine
church of Analepsis (5).
Maries. (6)
At the Melissa-Palaiokastro site survive ruins of defensive walls
with two gates and towers. Within the walls the remains of a
house (?) and a cistern have been detected.
Kastro. (8)
Kastro is a deserted village in the centre of the island of Thasos,
perhaps from the Late Byzantine period. From its fortifications
survives the base of a rectangular tower with a barrel-vaulted cis-
tern in the interior. A marble inscription mentions that the fortifica-
tions were established in 1403 by Constantinopolitans Constan-
tine and Ioannis, officials of Byzantine Emperor Manuel Palaeo-
logus II, who tried to reinforce the defence of the last territories of
the empire. A second inscription can be dated to 1414 or 1416,
and is associated with the reinforcement of Kastro’s fortifications
by the ruling Gattilusi family.
Potos. (11)
On the coast are the ruins of an Early Christian basilica and scat-
tered architectural components have been discovered. On the
hill of Aghios Antonios survive the remains of a three-aisled, Early
Christian basilica.
Astris. (14)
Ruins of an Early Christian basilica are to be found.
Thymonia. (12)
At the Schidia site are the ruins of an Early Christian village and
church.
Alyki. (13)
There are twin three-aisled basilicas with lifespans from the 4th to
the 7th c. The N church features a narthex and baptistery and the
