page_title: Mount Oeta
section_title: Middle Ages
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Oeta / History / Middle Ages
caption_attribution_description: English: The ancient akropolis of Hypate, modern Ypati, Central Greece. The acropolis was heavily modified during the Genevan and Catalan rule of Greece.
context_page_description: Mount Oeta is a mountain in Central Greece. A southeastern offshoot of the Pindus range, it is 2,152 m high. Since 1966, the core area of the mountain is a national park, and much of the rest has been declared a protected area under Natura 2000.
context_section_description: Hypate is still mentioned in the 6th century by the historian Procopius of Caesarea, who recorded repairs to its walls by Emperor Justinian I, and in the Synecdemus. The city may have been abandoned after the Slavic invasions of the 7th century, and reappears in the 10th century under the name Neai Patrai ("New Patras") or Patrai Helladikai ("Patras in [the theme of] Hellas"). Until the 13th century, the city is mentioned only as an ecclesiastical center, being a metropolitan bishopric with one (10th century) and eventually twelve (12th century) suffragans.
  The city played a major role in the latter 13th century, when it was the capital of the independent Greek rulers of Thessaly, John I Doukas, Constantine Doukas and John II Doukas. The Catalan Company seized Neopatras and much of Phthiotis and southern Thessaly in 1319, forming the new Duchy of Neopatras, a vassal of the Duchy of Athens. It was one of the last remaining Catalan possessions in Greece, and fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1394. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the fortress town of Siderokastron was also located on the eastern slopes of Oeta. The Agathonos Monastery, dating at least to the 15th century, lies on the northern slopes of the mountain near Ypati.
caption: The ancient acropolis of Ypati
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