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5 unusual facts about Arkadi Monastery


Arkadi Monastery

According to Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, the monastery was built on the site of an ancient city, Arcadia.

Since the mid-October victory of Mustafa Pasha's troops at Vafes, the majority of the Turkish army was stationed in Apokoronas and were particularly concentrated in the fortresses around the bay of Souda.

The Ottoman army then turned toward Roustika, where Mustafa spent the night in the monastery of the prophet Elie, while his army camped in the villages of Roustika and Aghios Konstantinos.

Gustave Glourens, a teacher at the Collège de France, enlisted and arrived in Crete by the end of 1866.

During the Ottoman Period, the monastery continued to prosper, which was shown in the writing of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.



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