Qualla: Rogoi https://qualla.com/rogoi 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/y/y/rogoi-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Rogoi https://qualla.com/rogoi Rogoi: Introduction https://qualla.com/rogoi/ Photo credit Flickr user [2] (Γιάννης Χουβαρδάς). Uploaded from wikimedia user Thiodor2012., CC BY-SA 2.0. Sometime in the medieval centuries, the people living beside the Louros river in Epirus did something extraordinary: they moved the river. They shifted its course to surround the base of their hill on three sides, draining marshes, claiming farmland, and — not incidentally — turning their hilltop settlement into something close to an island fortress. The castle of Rogoi had already stood for centuries. The engineering project made it nearly impregnable.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/y/rogoi-wp/sqyy-rogoi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rogoi: Before the Castle Was a Castle https://qualla.com/rogoi/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Marsyas assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5. Long before the Byzantines raised their walls at Rogoi, the hill above the Louros knew a different life. Bouchetion — an Elean colony founded in the 7th century BC — occupied this same strategic promontory, serving as a seaport for inland settlements at Elatria and Baties. Back t...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/y/rogoi-wp/sqyy-rogoi-before-the-castle-was-a-castle.mp3 0:06 2 full Rogoi: The Name and Its Settlers https://qualla.com/rogoi/ Photo credit Olaf Tausch, CC BY-SA 3.0. The medieval settlement of Rogoi first appears in the Notitiae Episcopatuum — the official register of bishoprics under the Patriarchate of Constantinople — as a suffragan see of the Metropolis of Naupaktos, in the reign of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI. Scholars place its resettl...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/y/rogoi-wp/sqyy-rogoi-the-name-and-its-settlers.mp3 0:06 3 full Rogoi: A Hill That Everyone Wanted https://qualla.com/rogoi/ Photo credit Olaf Tausch, CC BY-SA 3.0. The 14th and early 15th centuries were Rogoi's most turbulent era. In 1303 or 1304, Philip I, Prince of Taranto, attacked the castle and failed to take it, repulsed by the regent of the Despotate of Epirus, Anna Palaiologina Kantakouzene, who refused to acknowledge Angevin suzera...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/y/rogoi-wp/sqyy-rogoi-a-hill-that-everyone-wanted.mp3 0:06 4 full Rogoi: A Traveller's Record, and a Relic https://qualla.com/rogoi/ Photo credit Antony Fragakis, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1436 and again in 1448 — just a year before the Ottomans arrived to end the settlement for good — the Italian humanist and traveller Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli visited Rogoi and wrote it down. He noted something remarkable: the church inside the castle kept the relics of Saint Luk...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/y/rogoi-wp/sqyy-rogoi-a-travellers-record-and-a-relic.mp3 0:06 5 full Rogoi: What the Walls Still Show https://qualla.com/rogoi/ Photo credit Olaf Tausch, CC BY-SA 3.0. The medieval castle visible today was built on the foundations of the ancient acropolis, following the line of its earliest fortification phases. Look closely at the masonry and you can see the join: ancient stonework below, Byzantine rebuilding above. The hill is 29 metres tall,...

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