Mégara

Obscure as it had become, Megara still counted as a fortress in the 14th century, when it belonged to the Catalan-ruled Duchy of Athens. In 1374 or 1375 Nerio Acciaioli, the Florentine adventurer who already held Corinth, took it with hired troops and used it as his base against the Catalans. Within a few years they held only Athens and Neopatras, and Nerio took Athens in 1388 and Neopatras in 1390. Under Ottoman rule Megara remained a purely Greek-speaking town among the Albanian-speaking villages of Attica, Boeotia and Corinthia, and in 1770 its men rose against the Turks in the Orlov Revolt.