Mount Oeta

Coordinates: 38°49′43″N 22°17′19″E / 38.82861°N 22.28861°E / 38.82861; 22.28861
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Oeta
Mount Oeta
Highest point
Elevation2,152 m (7,060 ft)
Coordinates38°49′43″N 22°17′19″E / 38.82861°N 22.28861°E / 38.82861; 22.28861
Geography
Oeta is located in Greece
Oeta
Oeta
Location in Greece
LocationPhthiotis and Phocis, Greece
Parent rangePindus
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Mount Oeta (

polytonic Οἴτη, Oiti, also transcribed as Oite) is a mountain in Central Greece. A southeastern offshoot of the Pindus range, it is 2,152 m (7,060 ft) high. Since 1966, the core area of the mountain is a national park, and much of the rest has been declared a special area under Natura 2000
.

Location and description

Mount Oeta is located on the boundaries of the

caverns, giving rise to many springs, small rivers, and seasonal ponds in the main plateaus, chiefly those of Livadies (Λιβαδιές), Amaliolaka (Αμαλιόλακα) and Katavothra (Καταβόθρα). Three major rivers spring forth from the mountain: Gorgopotamos and Asopos from the east, and Vistriza/Inachos from the west, all of which are tributaries of Spercheios. The streams of the southern slope flow into the river Mornos.[2] The mountain's tallest peak, Pyrgos (Πύργος), has a height of 2,152 metres (7,060 ft),[3] while the second-tallest is that of Greveno (Γρεβενό) at 2,117 metres (6,946 ft).[4]

A total of 22 settlements are located on Mount Oeta:[5]

National Park

In 1966, Mount Oeta became the sixth of Greece's

Ministry of the Environment in 2002 (Law 3044/2002).[8]

Flora

Fauna

Mammals in the park are

is one of the amphibians living in the park and is endangered.

The park also hosts a great variety of bird species. Woodpecker species are present on Oiti, such as grey–headed woodpecker, the white–backed woodpecker, the black woodpecker and the syrian woodpecker. Other bird species include the ortolan bunting, the horned lark, the eurasian skylark, the tawny pipit, the alpine accentor, the black redstart, the northern wheatear, the common rock thrush, the black stork and the white–winged snowfinch. As well as a great number of rare predatory birds, for example the golden eagle, the short–toed snake eagle and the peregrine falcon.

Fish species of the parks rivers and lakes are Sperchios barbel, Macedonian chub, Sperchios spirlin, Greek trout and probably the endangered Marathon minnow.[9]

History

Antiquity

In

Roman times.[5][12]

In historical times, the area of Oeta belonged to southern

Aenianes, and a member of the Aetolian League.[13][14]

The women of Hypate were associated with witchcraft in Antiquity: the sorceresses Mycale and Agaonice, called the Pharmacidae, inhabited the area.[13][11] Even in more recent times, the precipice of Anemotrypa near the town was said to be the haunt of the crone Lyousa Armagou.[11]

Middle Ages

The ancient acropolis of Ypati

Hypate is still mentioned in the 6th century by the historian

suffragans.[13][15]

The city played a major role in the latter 13th century, when it was the capital of the independent Greek rulers of

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.[15] In the 13th and 14th centuries, the fortress town of Siderokastron was also located on the eastern slopes of Oeta.[16] The Agathonos Monastery, dating at least to the 15th century, lies on the northern slopes of the mountain near Ypati.[17]

Modern era

The area played an important role in the

References

  1. ^ Kastanioti & Stamellou 2013, pp. 4–5.
  2. ^ Kastanioti & Stamellou 2013, pp. 5–6.
  3. ^ Kastanioti & Stamellou 2013, p. 4.
  4. ^ a b Kastanioti & Stamellou 2013, p. 37.
  5. ^ a b c Kastanioti & Stamellou 2013, p. 34.
  6. ^ Kastanioti & Stamellou 2013, p. 8.
  7. ^ a b Kastanioti & Stamellou 2013, p. 10.
  8. ^ Kastanioti & Stamellou 2013, p. 14.
  9. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2017-05-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ^ a b c Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854). "Oeta". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. I. London: John Murray.
  11. ^ a b c Kastanioti & Stamellou 2013, p. 35.
  12. ^ Kramolisch, Herwig (October 2006). "Oete". Brill's New Pauly. Brill Online. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  13. ^ a b c d Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854). "Hypata". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. I. London: John Murray.
  14. ^ T.S. Mackay (1976). "HYPATA Aitolia, Greece.". The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton University Press. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  15. ^ a b c Gregory 1991, p. 1454.
  16. ^ Koder & Hild 1976, pp. 256–257.
  17. ^ Koder & Hild 1976, pp. 117–118.

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