Sálona

Salona, the medieval name of Amfissa in central Greece, became the seat of a Latin lordship after the Fourth Crusade. Its rulers built a castle on the hill of the ancient acropolis. Catalan forces took the area in 1311 and ruled central Greece for more than eighty years.

The Ottomans conquered Salona in 1394. A major earthquake damaged the town in 1580, and Venetian rule from 1687 to 1697 interrupted the Ottoman period. The fortified town and its valley remained important during the Greek War of Independence in the early nineteenth century.