Qualla: Aigio https://qualla.com/aigio en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/9/aigio-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Aigio https://qualla.com/aigio Aigio: Introduction https://qualla.com/aigio/ Photo credit ChristosKaragounis, CC BY-SA 4.0. Somewhere offshore from Aigio, beneath the blue water of the Gulf of Corinth, lies the ruins of Helike — a city swallowed by an earthquake and buried by a tsunami in 373 BC. Some scholars link it to Plato's myth of Atlantis. Archaeologists found it in 2000 and are still excavating. The story of Aigio, the port town that inherited Helike's territory after the disaster, spans three thousand years of Greeks living on this same stretch of coast — as colonizers, as athletes, as revolutionaries, as raisin exporters, as earthquake survivors. The Gulf has taken things from this place and given things back.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/9/aigio-wp/sqz9-aigio-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aigio: The Achaean Assembly Place https://qualla.com/aigio/ Photo credit Μυρμηγκάκι, CC BY-SA 3.0. Aigion — the ancient predecessor of modern Aigio — was founded in Homeric times and became one of twelve cities in the first Achaean League, the confederacy of Peloponnesian city-states that formed around 800 BC. When the Achaeans reformed their league in the third century BC and...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/9/aigio-wp/sqz9-aigio-the-achaean-assembly-place.mp3 0:06 2 full Aigio: Vostitsa — the Byzantine and Frankish Interlude https://qualla.com/aigio/ Photo credit Peloponnisios, CC BY-SA 4.0. After centuries of Roman and then Byzantine rule, the city acquired a new name. By the ninth or tenth century it was being called Vostitsa — a name of debated origin, possibly Slavic, possibly meaning something like "fruit-bearing place." Crusaders captured it in the early thirte...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/9/aigio-wp/sqz9-aigio-vostitsa-the-byzantine-and-frankish-interlude.mp3 0:06 3 full Aigio: Raisins, Bananas and the Port https://qualla.com/aigio/ Photo credit AlekH, CC BY 3.0. For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Aigio's identity was agricultural and commercial. The area became one of the primary export hubs for Corinthian raisins — the small, intensely sweet dried grape called Zante currant in English, named for the island but grown ext...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/9/aigio-wp/sqz9-aigio-raisins-bananas-and-the-port.mp3 0:06 4 full Aigio: The 1995 Earthquake https://qualla.com/aigio/ Photo credit Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 15 June 1995, a serious earthquake struck Aigio, destroying buildings and damaging roads through the downtown and southwestern sections of the city. People died. Small memorials went up across the city afterward — with candles that are kept burning day and night — and they rem...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/9/aigio-wp/sqz9-aigio-the-1995-earthquake.mp3 0:06 5 full Aigio: What Remains https://qualla.com/aigio/ Photo credit Peloponnisios, CC BY-SA 4.0. Walking through central Aigio today, you find layers compressed into a small space: neoclassical houses around Ypsila Alonia Square, its neogothic tower now housing a cafeteria; the Faneromeni cathedral, designed in 1914 by the Saxon-Greek architect Ernst Ziller; the Archaeologic...

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