The city of Kastoria through time
An interactive timeline to personalities and events that have defined the history of Kastoria
Neolithic settlements
Dispilio Neolithic lake village
Avgi Neolithic settlement
Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age
Early Iron Age
Wall settlement of Dispilio
The Kingdom of Orestis
Cemetery of Dailaki
The Kingdom of Orestis
Cemetery of Pentavrysso
The Koinon of the Orestians
Orestis is part of the Kingdom of the Orestians
Keletron taken by the Romans
Roman sanctuary at Psalida
Public building at Paravela
Raids by Herulians and Goths
Fortification of Diocletianopolis
Construction of religious and secular buildings within the walls of Diocletianopolis
Alaric leads Visigoth invasion and raids
Early Christian and Early Byzantine period
Reconstruction of secular and religious buildings in Diocletianopolis
Ostrogoth invasion
Destruction and gradual abandonment of Diocletianopolis
Justinian founds Kastoria on the site of the Roman Keletron
Wall built across the neck of the promontory
Raids by Slavs and Avars
Dark Age
Middle Byzantine Period
Kastoria incorporated into the theme of Thessaloniki
Arrival of first Jewish settlers
Bulgarian presence in the city
Bishopric of Kastoria established, creation of the theme of Kastoria
Emperor Alexius I Comnemus retakes the city from the Normans, inner wall built
Economic, intellectual and artistic development, Bishopric of Kastoria attached to Archbishopric of Ochrid
Brief Norman occupation of Kastoria,
Alexius III Angelus issues a chryssobull facilitating trade between Kastoria and Venice (Provincia Castoriae)
The Latin Empire
Kastoria belongs sometimes to the Empire of Nicaea and sometimes to the Despotate of Epirus
After the Battle of Pelagonia (1259), Kastoria once again part of the restored Byzantine Empire
Late Byzantine Period
Kastoria ruled by Serbia
Kastoria briefly ruled by the Albanian prince Andreas Mouzakis
Kastoria captured by the Turks, creation of the kaza of Kastoria, as part of the beylerbeylik of Rumelia
Kastoria made part of the sanjak of Monastir
Creation of school of artistic expression centred on Kastoria (frescoes, icons)
Kastoria one of the largest cities in the Balkans
Period of Ottoman rule
Flourishing cottage fur industry
The painter Onoufrios decorates churches in Kastoria and other Balkan cities
The Kastoria region is ceded to Fatma Sultana, daughter of Ahmet I, as a personal fief (hasi)
The Turkish traveller Evliya Celebi visits the city
George Kastriotis founds an ecclesiastical seminary in the garden of Panaghia Mouzeviki (Aghios Menas)
The Metropolitan See of Kastoria attached to the Patriarchate of Constantinople
Kastoria incorporated into the autonom pashalik of Ioannina ruled by Ali Pasha
Epidemic of plague
Kastoria attached to the sanjak of Korytsa
Kastoria attached to the vilayet of Monastir
Kastoria is liberated
Kastoria is liberated on 11/11/1912 and becomes part of the Greek state
An interactive timeline to personalities and events that have defined the history of Kastoria