Early history<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While uninhabited in antiquity, the island upon which the town of Monemvasia is situated may have been the site of a Minoan<\/a> trading post. Pausanias<\/a>, the renowned Greek traveler and geographer, referred to the site as Akra Minoa<\/em>, which translates to “Minoan Promontory”.[6]<\/a><\/sup> The ancient settlement of Epidaurus Limera<\/a> was located a little north of Monemvasia in ancient times. The region surrounding the two settlements has been inhabited since prehistoric times. During Roman<\/a> times it flourished as the most important city on the eastern coast of the Malea peninsula<\/a>.[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pausanias<\/a> visited Epidaurus Limera and said that opposite the city there was a promontory which he referred to as the “extremity of Minos”, which has been identified as Monemvasia. Strabo<\/a>\u2014a century earlier\u2014mentions it as “Minoan fortress”. The toponym “Minoa” indicates the existence of a port in antiquity, traces of which have been discovered underwater. However, it is not known if there was a significant settlement on the island. It is possible that a settlement was established there in the 4th century, around the time when the capital of the Roman Empire moved from Rome<\/a> to Constantinople<\/a>, which resulted in changes in maritime trade routes. Epidaurus Limera itself was abandoned in the 4th century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early history While uninhabited in antiquity, the island upon which the town of Monemvasia is situated may have been the site of a Minoan trading post. Pausanias, the renowned Greek traveler and geographer, referred to the site as Akra Minoa, which translates to “Minoan Promontory”.[6] The ancient settlement of Epidaurus Limera was located a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monemvasia.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monemvasia.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monemvasia.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monemvasia.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monemvasia.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monemvasia.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/monemvasia.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monemvasia.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}