Tolo Bay , Greece
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| Description | Version en français plus bas Tolo in Katharevousa known as Tolon is a small picturesque village in Greece on the Peloponnese peninsula. It is part of the municipal unit Asini, in ArgolisThe bay of Tolon (part of the Argolic Gulf) was first written about by Homer, as was Asini in the Iliad, named as one of the cities whose fleet took part in the Trojan War. In the centuries to come the bay of Tolon gave refuge to battle ships at various times and then during the Byzantine period was revived as an auxiliary port to Nafplio. Following the Fourth Crusade and the break-up of the Byzantine Empire (1204 AD), along with the rest of the Peloponnese, the area came under Frankish rule until 1389 AD, when it was then taken over by the Venetians, and in 1540 AD to the Ottomans. In the 1680s, during the Morean War, the alliance between the Venetians, the Germans, and the Polish against the Ottoman Empire, the chief of the allied forces, Vice-admiral Francesco Morosini was ordered to capture the ca |
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| Date | 2017-01-28 |
| Source | commons.wikimedia.org |
| Author | Le Monde en Vidéo |
