Setina Fortress

Setina Fortress, or rather what remains of it, stands east of the village of Skopos in Florina prefecture, near the upland road to the Papadia dam. The modern village name dates only from 1928; previously it was called Setina, a name thought to derive from a Romanised version of an ancient local one. The site is a fortified town of the Early Byzantine period, though its history is thinly documented. It is known from the chronicler Georgios Kedrinos at the end of the 11th century, and coins found here span the 2nd to the 12th centuries. The visible ruins include a basilica and assorted buildings, plus an unusual number of subterranean chambers, likely used to store wheat from the Pelagonia plain. In the 10th century Setina fell within Tsar Samouil's Bulgarian Empire, and in 1016 it was taken and destroyed by Basil II's Byzantine troops. Even so, the town lingered on until the 12th century. Today only a few traces of the settlement survive.

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