The Salmeniko Castle (Greek: Κάστρο του Σαλμενίκου, Kastro tou Salmenikou) or Orgia or Oria Castle (Κάστρο Οργιάς/Ωριάς, cf. Kastro tis Orias) was a castle at the foot of Panachaiko mountain, in the modern municipality of Aigialeia, Achaea, Greece. In 1461 it was the last garrison of the Byzantine Empire, holding out until eight years after the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
9389°E / 38.2675; 21.9389 The SalmenikoCastle (Greek: Κάστρο του Σαλμενίκου, Kastro tou Salmenikou) or Orgia or Oria Castle (Κάστρο Οργιάς/Ωριάς, cf. Kastro...
reigns of Bayezid II and Süleyman I. In July 1461, the last holdout, SalmenikoCastle, was taken. The peninsula was captured for the Republic of Venice by...
was Salmeniko, in the Morea's northwest. Graitzas Palaiologos was the military commander there, stationed at SalmenikoCastle (also known as Castle Orgia)...
Γραίτζας Παλαιολόγος) was the commander of the Byzantine garrison at SalmenikoCastle near Patras during the invasion of the Despotate of Morea by the forces...
July – Byzantine general Graitzas Palaiologos honourably surrenders SalmenikoCastle, the last garrison of the Despotate of the Morea, to invading forces...
July – Byzantine general Graitzas Palaiologos honourably surrenders SalmenikoCastle, last garrison of the Despotate of the Morea, to invading forces of...
last holdout was Salmeniko, in the Morea's northwest. Graitzas Palaiologos was the military commander there, stationed at SalmenikoCastle. While the town...
was Salmeniko, in the Morea's northwest. Graitzas Palaiologos was the military commander there, stationed at SalmenikoCastle (also known as Castle Orgia)...
death of his father Charles VII. July. Graitzas Palaiologos surrenders SalmenikoCastle, the last garrison of the Despotate of the Morea, to Ottoman forces...
July – Byzantine general Graitzas Palaiologos honourably surrenders SalmenikoCastle, the last garrison of the Despotate of the Morea, to invading forces...
last holdout was SalmenikoCastle, under military commander Graitzas Palaiologos. Graitzas and his garrison held out in the castle until July 1461, when...
capturing the fortresses of Achaia and Ilia, and in July 1461, Salmenikos, the last castle of the Greek despot, was surrendered. Thus, apart from the Venetian...
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