Tripolitsá

Tripolitsa stands on the upland plain of Arcadia, near the centre of the Morea. Under Ottoman rule it grew into an administrative and military centre for the peninsula, with substantial Muslim and Jewish communities. Its inland position made it a principal objective of the Greek insurgents when war broke out in 1821. After a long siege, Greek forces stormed Tripolitsa that October, and massacred many Muslim and Jewish inhabitants. Ibrahim Pasha retook the abandoned town in 1825; before withdrawing from the Morea three years later, his forces destroyed it and pulled down its walls. The town was rebuilt after the establishment of an independent Greek state.