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Extract from the Karytena Travel Guides:
Set high above the Megalpoli-Andhrtsena road,
KARYTENA
may look familiar to Greece aficionados; with its medieval bridge over the River Alfis (Alpheus), it used to grace the 5000-drachma note. Like many of the Arcadian hill towns hereabouts, its history has Frankish, Byzantine and Turkish contributions, the Venetians having passed over much of the northern interior. It was founded by the Byzantines in the seventh century and had attained a population of some 20,000 when the Franks took it in 1209. Under their century-long rule, Karytena was the capital of a large barony under Geoffroy de Bruyres, the paragon of chivalry in the medieval...
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