Kardítsa

Karditsa stands on the western Thessalian plain, where the cultivated lowlands approach the mountains of Agrafa. The settlement grew under Ottoman rule and served as a place of exchange between the plain and the uplands. The English traveller William Martin Leake recorded it in 1810; by that time it was already a trading centre on the route between these regions. Plague struck in 1821, leaving the town severely depopulated during the years of the Greek uprising.