Agios Andreas Fortress

The ancient city of Anthini, also known as Athini or Anthana, occupied a low coastal hill called Nisi, three kilometres northeast of Agios Andreas in Kynouria. It was one of the two principal cities of Thyreatis, serving as the region's port, while its inland counterpart Thyrea guarded the mountain passes. Anthini existed from at least the fifth century BC, with its defensive walls erected in the late fifth or early fourth century BC. The city flourished through Hellenistic and Roman times, and coins of Justinian suggest some later activity, though it appears to have been abandoned after the seventh century, likely due to Saracen pirate raids. The fortification enclosed 81,000 square metres with a perimeter of 1,156 metres, featuring an outer circuit with twenty-one rectangular towers and a smaller inner citadel of 95 metres around the chapel of Agios Andreas. Walls were built in the polygonal style, with some later isodomic sections. Today only fragments survive, much having been carted off by Venetians building Palamidi in Nafplio a century before the traveller Leake visited in 1806. Excavations in 1962 uncovered buildings, olive presses, cisterns and ancient road tracks.

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