Borsh Castle otherwise called Sopot Castle from the slope it is found, is a demolished stronghold close to the town Borsh, Albania, close to the shoreline of the Ionian Sea.
The stronghold dates to Antiquity, and its fortresses take after the hint of an acropolis, with four consequent periods of remaking, extending from the early Byzantine time frame to the late Middle Ages. The name "Sopot" is of Slavic starting point. In medieval Greek reports, the manor is named Sopoton or Sopotos, from which its name in different dialects infers; its harbor is said in Greek portolans with the name Gazopolis.
The site is first specified in the mid thirteenth century, when ecclesiastical overseer Demetrios Chomatenos composed of the "archonship of Sopotos" (Greek: ἀρχοντία Σοπωτοῡ, archontia Sopotou), some portion of the locale of Vagenetia. In 1258, the Despot of Epirus Michael II Komnenos Doukas gave the stronghold alongside Buthrotum and the island of Corfu as settlement for his little girl Helena to Manfred, King of Sicily. It returned under Epirote control before long, before being indeed surrendered by Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas to Charles I of Anjou in 1279. The zone returned again to Epirote turns in the consequent decades, yet in the Epirote disobedience to Palaiologan Byzantine run in 1338– 39, it stayed faithful to Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos.
Following the Ottoman victory, a cadaster from 1431 records Sopot with 60 families, and as capital of a nahiye. In 1456, troops of King Alfonso V of Aragon were working in the territory of Sobato against the Ottomans. In 1470 it was under Venetian control, under the ward of the legislative leader of Corfu; toward the finish of the Ottoman– Venetian War of 1463– 1479, the Ottomans made a case for it and obviously got it, for in 1488 the neighborhood Albanian populace defied Ottoman run the show.
The dividers of the mansion, which take after the old strongholds, survive. In the inside, the medieval post was partitioned through a divider in two. Triangular towers were included later, most likely amid the center Byzantine period.In the inside of the château stand remains of different structures and storages.
The stronghold dates to Antiquity, and its fortresses take after the hint of an acropolis, with four consequent periods of remaking, extending from the early Byzantine time frame to the late Middle Ages. The name "Sopot" is of Slavic starting point. In medieval Greek reports, the manor is named Sopoton or Sopotos, from which its name in different dialects infers; its harbor is said in Greek portolans with the name Gazopolis.
The site is first specified in the mid thirteenth century, when ecclesiastical overseer Demetrios Chomatenos composed of the "archonship of Sopotos" (Greek: ἀρχοντία Σοπωτοῡ, archontia Sopotou), some portion of the locale of Vagenetia. In 1258, the Despot of Epirus Michael II Komnenos Doukas gave the stronghold alongside Buthrotum and the island of Corfu as settlement for his little girl Helena to Manfred, King of Sicily. It returned under Epirote control before long, before being indeed surrendered by Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas to Charles I of Anjou in 1279. The zone returned again to Epirote turns in the consequent decades, yet in the Epirote disobedience to Palaiologan Byzantine run in 1338– 39, it stayed faithful to Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos.
Following the Ottoman victory, a cadaster from 1431 records Sopot with 60 families, and as capital of a nahiye. In 1456, troops of King Alfonso V of Aragon were working in the territory of Sobato against the Ottomans. In 1470 it was under Venetian control, under the ward of the legislative leader of Corfu; toward the finish of the Ottoman– Venetian War of 1463– 1479, the Ottomans made a case for it and obviously got it, for in 1488 the neighborhood Albanian populace defied Ottoman run the show.
The dividers of the mansion, which take after the old strongholds, survive. In the inside, the medieval post was partitioned through a divider in two. Triangular towers were included later, most likely amid the center Byzantine period.In the inside of the château stand remains of different structures and storages.
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