With a visit to the beautiful area of West Evia, the ruins of an entire settlement, which flourished during the Turkish occupation and was abandoned after liberation, dominate in front of you. The reason for the well-known Sarai which is a monument of a feudal form of economic relations and stands imposing, transporting us to another era.
The ancient woodland city that has survived to this day, was located on a hill east of the lake of the same name. It appears from the years of the Neolithic era until its years. Of Christianity. It is said to have been an agricultural settlement developed in the small but fertile plain. There are ruins around the lake, which testify to the existence of important rural settlements, whose inhabitants found safety in the citadel of Dystos which was on the hill Kastri above the lake.
During the years of Ottoman rule, it was a Turkish fortress of Chalkida. After the liberation the area was bought by him. Alexandros Kontostavlos, who became a member of parliament for Karystia in 1856, while he was speaker of parliament and minister of finance. His name is associated with the purchase of steam-powered frigates by American shipyards in February 1825, from which he received large percentages from the closing of the order by the American owners, who stole the coffers of revolutionary Greece.
and With this money it is said that he bought from the Turks the area from Aliveri to Lepoura and Argyro. The area was expropriated in 1910 and distributed to the locals.
The ancient ruins of the area attracted the interest of many researchers and archaeologists, such as L. Ross (1844), A. Ragavi (1853) and HG Lolling (1876-1877). T. Wiegand (1895) was the first archaeologist to design the ancient ruins in 1898. Several decades later, in 1976, the German archaeologists L. Schwandner and W. Hoepfner and their collaborators proceeded to the most accurate design and study of the building remains preserved on the hill.
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