page_title: Elassona
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Elassona / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Elassona, Greece. Monument to revolutioner Nikotsaras (1774-1807)
context_page_description: Elassona is a town and a municipality in the Larissa regional unit in Greece. During antiquity Elassona was called Oloösson and was a town of the Perrhaebi tribe. It is situated at the foot of Mount Olympus. Elassona is bypassed by the GR-3.
context_section_description: Due to its location on the passes leading from the Thessalian plain to Macedonia, the site of Elassona was always of some strategic importance.
  Known as Olo[ö]sson (Ὀλο[ο]σσών) in antiquity, in the early Byzantine period it was known as Lossonos, and was one of the sites refortified under Justinian I (r. 527–565). the modern name first appears in the writings of the 12th-century scholar and archbishop Eustathius of Thessalonica, who considered it "barbaric". At the turn of the 14th century, the Panagia Olympiotissa Monastery was founded on the hilltop citadel. In 1304, Guy II de la Roche, Duke of Athens, passed through during a campaign against the Despotate of Epirus.
  Following the death of Stephen Gabrielopoulos in 1333, Elasson was one of the Thessalian towns (along with Stagoi, Trikala, Damasis, and Fanari) that for a short while fell under the rule of the Epirote ruler John II Orsini (r. 1323–1335). Under Andronikos III Palaiologos (r. 1328–1341), privileges were granted to the Olympiotissa monastery, and the town became the seat of an archbishopric, a status it retained into the Ottoman period.
  Unlike the rest of Thessaly, which was annexed by Greece in 1881, Elassona remained part of the Ottoman Empire until 1912, when it joined Greece (along with Crete, Macedonia and Epirus) following victory in the Balkan Wars.
caption: Monument to fighter Nikotsaras
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