Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
During recent excavations in the region of Rakita an ancient temple, sacred to the Goddess Artemis, was discovered. Also in the settlement lies the historic old church of Agia Paraskevi (built in 1700) where the Greek rebels under Theodoros Kolokotronis attended the divine liturgy just before the crucial victorious battle in Kafkaria against the Turkish general Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt. (26 August 1827).