Veligosti

Veligosti lies on a low hill in Arcadia, beside a tributary of the Alpheios. Founded in Byzantine times, it became the seat of a Frankish barony after the conquest of the Morea. The Chronicle of the Morea counts it among the twelve baronies established by Geoffrey of Villehardouin. The lordship was lost around 1300, and the settlement declined under later Ottoman rule. Ruins of the Byzantine settlement and a tower remain on the hill.