The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Monemvasia
Also known as Malvasia
- fortress
- Byzantine
The rock-island fortress of the southeastern Peloponnese, Malvasia to the Latins and Monemvasia to the Greeks. Gibbon notes it as a nearly impregnable Byzantine holdout.
- Type
- fortress
- Style
- Byzantine
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 276
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The rock-island fortress of the southeastern Peloponnese, Malvasia to the Latins and Monemvasia to the Greeks. Gibbon notes it as a nearly impregnable Byzantine holdout.
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