Mystras (grc)

Mystras

Mystras ranks 6,237th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Venaria Reale, Scarsdale, New York, and Hyderabad State. Memorable people born in Mystras include Matthew Kantakouzenos, Sophia Palaiologina, and Manuel Kantakouzenos. Memorable people who died in Mystras include Gemistus Pletho, Matthew Kantakouzenos, and Manuel Kantakouzenos. Mystras has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many politicians, and philosophers. Mystras is located in Greece.

Mystras or Mistras, also known in the Chronicle of the Morea as Myzethras or Myzithras (Μυζηθρᾶς), is a fortified town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Situated on Mount Taygetus, above ancient Sparta, and below a Frankish castle, it served as the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea in the 14th and 15th centuries, experiencing a period of prosperity and cultural flowering during the Palaeologan Renaissance, including the teachings of Gemistos Plethon. The city also attracted artists and architects of the highest quality. Read more on Wikipedia