#agrafa

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Ágrafa mountains, Greece by Vasilis Mitsiakis.

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The Greek region too remote for maps

In medieval times this region was so inaccessible that it was literally "agrafa" (unwritten) –imbuing its inhabitants with a wild and indepe

There is an area of Greece that is little-known and even less visited. Deep in the interior of the mainland, cut off from the rest of the world by mountains, lies the region of Agrafa.

Its name literally means "unwritten" in Greek, because when Byzantine scribes first encountered the region they found it too remote to record on their maps, marking it as agrafa – uncharted territory. The Ottomans, too, found the area too inaccessible to control, and so Agrafa became one of the very few areas of Greece that never fell under Ottoman occupation.

The Agrafiots, the resilient, independent-minded inhabitants of this region, used this quasi-independence to cultivate their land into a hub of revolutionary activity. Legendary independence fighter Antonis Katsantonis was born here, and revolutionary leader Georgios Karaiskakis used Agrafa as a base from which to terrorise Ottoman troops down in the plains.

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Free Mountains

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Καρδίτσα , Φεβρουάριος 2020

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dusk reflections

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The good, the bad and the ugly by ntinoslagos

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Finding shelter in Ágrafa mountains, Greece. Photo by agrafa_refuge1536. 

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Ágrafa mountains, Greece by Dimitris Kranias