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Nafplio

town in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece

6 dated entries naming Nafplio, drawn from 6 separate years between 1212 CE and 1834 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Nafplion, Nauplion in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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13th century

  • 1212Spring – After the fall of Argos the Crusaders complete their conquest of the Morea in southern Greece. The city, along with Nauplia, is given to Othon de la Roche, a Burgundian nobleman, as a fief, along with an income of 400 hyperpyron from Corinth. Meanwhile, the Venetians conquer Crete and evict Henry, Count of Malta ("Enrico Pescatore"), a Genoese adventurer and pirate, active in the Mediterranean.source

18th century

  • 1715July 20 – Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–18): The fall of Nauplion, the capital of the Venetian "Kingdom of the Morea", seals the fate of the Peloponnese Peninsula, which is soon completely retaken by the Ottomans.source

19th century

  • 1822November 13 – Greek War of Independence: Nafplio falls to the Greek rebels.source
  • 1831October 9 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek head of state and founder of Greek independence, is assassinated in Nafplion.source
  • 1833February 6 – Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria arrives at the port of Nafplio to assume the title King Othon the First of Greece.source
  • 1834September 18 – Athens becomes Greece's capital city, replacing the provisional capital of Nafplio.source

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