Qualla: Amfissa https://qualla.com/amfissa 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/g/amfissa-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Amfissa https://qualla.com/amfissa Amfissa: Introduction https://qualla.com/amfissa/ Photo credit Lemur12, Public domain. The name means surrounded, and so it is. Two mountains hold the town between them: Giona to the west, Parnassus to the east, their flanks dropping into the Crissaean plain where the olive forest begins. Amfissa sits at the plain's northern edge, the last town before the mountains close in, 20 kilometres from Delphi and a short drive from the sea at Itea. Its ancient name was Amphissa. Its medieval name was Salona. Both names have stuck in different contexts, used by different sources, which is fitting for a place that has been occupied, renamed, destroyed, rebuilt, and renamed again across three millennia without ever quite disappearing.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/g/amfissa-wp/sqzg-amfissa-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Amfissa: The Oldest City in Phocis https://qualla.com/amfissa/ Photo credit Helen Simonsson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Amphissa has the longest continuous historical record of any city in Phocis. The claim of 3,000 years of occupation is supported by a Mycenaean tomb found at the eastern edge of town — in use from the 13th to the 11th century BC — and by the remains of the ancient acropolis walls...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/g/amfissa-wp/sqzg-amfissa-the-oldest-city-in-phocis.mp3 0:06 2 full Amfissa: Sacred Wars and Philip's Revenge https://qualla.com/amfissa/ Photo credit Jean Housen, CC BY-SA 3.0. Amphissa's most consequential moment in ancient history came through a diplomatic quarrel at Delphi. During the Third Sacred War, the Amphissians had cultivated part of the Crissaean plain that belonged to the sanctuary, and established potteries at Kirra in violation of sacred l...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/g/amfissa-wp/sqzg-amfissa-sacred-wars-and-philips-revenge.mp3 0:06 3 full Amfissa: Frankish Lords and the Castle of Salona https://qualla.com/amfissa/ Photo credit User:Jpatokal, CC BY-SA 4.0. The city that emerged from antiquity into the Middle Ages carried a new name. After the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and the establishment of the Latin Empire in Constantinople, the Crusader lord Boniface of Montferrat swept through central Greece, and Amphissa became the seat of the L...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/g/amfissa-wp/sqzg-amfissa-frankish-lords-and-the-castle-of-salona.mp3 0:06 4 full Amfissa: First Shot of Independence https://qualla.com/amfissa/ Photo credit Lemur12, CC BY-SA 4.0. The transformation from Salona back to Amphissa was not just a matter of renaming. It was earned. On 27 March 1821, the local revolutionary leader Panourgias led forces into the town. On April 10 the Greeks captured the Castle of Salona — and in doing so took the first Ottoman fo...

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