Neái Pátra

Neopatras stands beneath Mount Oeta in central Greece. In antiquity it was known as Hypata, the chief town of the Aenianes; after a period of decline it reappeared in Byzantine records as Neai Patrai, or New Patras. Its fortress and archbishopric made it a centre of the surrounding country, and in the late thirteenth century it became the capital of the Greek principality of Thessaly.

The Catalan Company seized Neopatras in 1319 and made it the centre of a duchy joined to their possessions around Athens. Nerio Acciaioli captured it in 1391, and Ottoman and Byzantine forces contested the town repeatedly before the Ottomans secured it in 1423. Known under Ottoman rule as Patracık, the town saw further fighting during the Greek War of Independence, when insurgents attacked its garrison on several occasions.