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Late sixth millennium BC

The Dispilio Tablet and Early Symbols

The so-called Dispilio Tablet was discovered at the Neolithic lakeside settlement near Kastoria. Its incised signs are important evidence for prehistoric symbolic…

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10th–18th century

The Painted Churches of Kastoria

Kastoria, on its peninsula in Lake Orestiada, preserves one of the richest groups of Byzantine and post-Byzantine churches in Greece. Local nobles…

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