Qualla: Martino, Phthiotis https://qualla.com/martino-phthiotis en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Martino, Phthiotis https://qualla.com/martino-phthiotis Martino, Phthiotis: Introduction https://qualla.com/martino-phthiotis/ The village still speaks an echo of Albania. Martino, in the hills of Phthiotis about 120 km north of Athens, is an Arvanite settlement — founded around 1383 AD and named for Martin Mouzaki, a chieftain of the Muzaka family of southern Albania whose relatives carried the same name all the way to a village in Sicily. For centuries the everyday language here was Arvanitika, an old form of Albanian. A traveler who passed through in 1815 noted it plainly: in Martino's three hundred Christian houses the common tongue was Arvanitika, "and they speak, of course, our language too" — Greek.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/e/martino-phthiotis-wp/swbe-martino-phthiotis-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Martino, Phthiotis: A City Beneath the Village https://qualla.com/martino-phthiotis/ Martino is not the first settlement to claim this ground. In the third century BC a city called Voumelitea rose in the same area and flourished into the Byzantine period before fading away. The medieval village that replaced it grew slowly under Ottoman rule, and the tax records ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/e/martino-phthiotis-wp/swbe-martino-phthiotis-a-city-beneath-the-village.mp3 0:06 2 full Martino, Phthiotis: The Battle of Martino https://qualla.com/martino-phthiotis/ When Greece rose against Ottoman rule in 1821, Martino sent seven of its men into the fight — among them Dimos Angelis, Loukas Martinoaios, and Giannakis Mitzou, names the village still remembers. But Martino's largest moment came on January 29, 1829, when the war reached its doo...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/b/e/martino-phthiotis-wp/swbe-martino-phthiotis-earthquake-and-endurance.mp3 0:06 4 full Martino, Phthiotis: What the Village Keeps https://qualla.com/martino-phthiotis/ The old quarter of Martino is now a protected monument, and the village guards its older treasures with care. The Byzantine church of Agios Georgios holds frescoes and icons from that era. Scattered nearby are the entrance to a temple of Pan and two ancient fountains the locals c...

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