Qualla: Pellana https://qualla.com/pellana en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Pellana https://qualla.com/pellana Pellana: Introduction https://qualla.com/pellana/ The village called Kalivia Georgitsi — "the huts of Georgitsi" — was renamed in 1932 after a nearby ancient city whose identity scholars still argue about. The new name, Pellana, comes from a site on the Eurotas that Pausanias visited in the second century AD and found had already ceased to be a functioning town. Yet before its decline, Pellana sat on one of the most strategically and mythologically charged landscapes in the ancient world: the northern gateway of Laconia, where the road from Arcadia descended toward Sparta, and where a Mycenaean presence once dominated the upper Eurotas valley.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/g/pellana-wp/sqxg-pellana-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pellana: Tyndareos and the Frontier Fort https://qualla.com/pellana/ Ancient sources describe Pellana as the residence of Tyndareos — father of Helen and the Dioscuri — during the period when he was expelled from Sparta. Whether or not the mythological genealogy holds, the strategic logic is clear: Pellana commanded the northern approach to Laconi...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/g/pellana-wp/sqxg-pellana-tyndareos-and-the-frontier-fort.mp3 0:06 2 full Pellana: The Mycenaean Claim https://qualla.com/pellana/ Archaeologist Theodore Spyropoulos argued that Pellana was the Mycenaean capital of Laconia — a claim that, if accepted, would place the seat of the Laconian Bronze Age world not at Sparta proper but here, in the hills above the upper Eurotas. The modern village sits 27 kilometer...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/g/pellana-wp/sqxg-pellana-the-mycenaean-claim.mp3 0:06 3 full Pellana: A Hellenic Wall and Ancient Springs https://qualla.com/pellana/ What survives at Pellana is modest but tangible. On the left bank of the Eurotas, at a place nineteenth-century scholars identified with the site, the riverbank is supported for about 200 yards by a Hellenic retaining wall. The mountain above, known as Mount Burlia, has two peake...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/g/pellana-wp/sqxg-pellana-a-hellenic-wall-and-ancient-springs.mp3 0:06 4 full Pellana: The Upper Eurotas from the Air https://qualla.com/pellana/ Pellana is at 37.206°N, 22.322°E, on a hill 27 kilometers north of Sparta and 5 kilometers west of the main Sparta-Tripoli road. The upper Eurotas valley narrows noticeably here compared to the broad plain around Sparta and Kladas to the south. Taygetos presses close on the weste...

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