The name " Malvasia " is generally thought to derive from Monemvasia, a Venetian fortress on the coast of Laconia, known in Italian as " Malvasia "; this port would have acted as a trading center for wine produced in the eastern Peloponnese and perhaps in some of the Cyclades.

In Greece, there is a variety known as Monemvasia, evidently named after the port, though now grown primarily in the Cyclades.

This is evident for an island outside of the Laconic coast with the present name Monemvasia, and for the small island outside of the harbour of Megara in Greece.

Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Monemvasia, of which it is a municipal unit.

The town is built on the slope to the south-east of the rock, overlooking Palaia Monemvasia bay.

Particularly important is the involvement of the Spetsiote fleet in sieges of the fortresses of Nafplion and Monemvasia and naval battles of Samos ( 1824 ) and Kafireas ( 1825 ).

Astros is accessible by the road connecting Tripoli and Argos and Tyros and Leonidio and Monemvasia to the south.

It is located W of Monemvasia, E of Gytheio and SE of Sparta.

Another possibility is car rental, which allows travellers to take in the sights of places such as Naplio, Mycenae, Epidauvros, and Monemvasia on the Peloponnese.

The municipality of Monemvasia covers the entire peninsula and part of the eastern coast.

The municipality Monemvasia was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 5 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

In 1904, the British School at Athens began a thorough exploration of Laconia, and in the following year excavations were made at Thalamae, Geronthrae, and Angelona near Monemvasia.

* Monemvasia, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece

* Agios Nikolaos, Monemvasia, a village in the Monemvasia municipal unit in Laconia

After the fall of the Duchy of Athens and the principality of Achaia, the only Latin possessions left on the mainland of Greece were the papal city of Monemvasia, the fortress of Vonitsa, the Messenian stations Coron and Modon, Navarino, the castles of Argos and Nauplia, to which the island of Aegina was subordinate, Lepanto and Pteleon.

Monemvasia island in southern Greece, the ancient Minoa

The rock was governed by Venetians until the treaty of 1540, which cost the Republic Nauplia and Monemvasia, her last two possessions on mainland Greece.

* Greece and the later crusades ( Lecture given in Monemvasia on July 31, 1982 )

Subsequently, another 40 schools opened across Greece and Asia Minor: in Skopje, Philipopolis, Andrianople, Sozopolis, Anchialos, Constantinople, Aenos, Serres, Giannitsa, Korytsa, Vlachokleisoura, Veria, Thessaloniki, Kalipolis, Kozani, Hieromerio, Tirnavo, Trikala, Paramytha, Agrafa, Arta, Karpenisi, Varnakova, Aetoliko, Thebes, Chalkida, Argos, Nafplio, Koroni, Monemvasia, Methoni, Kythera, Kerkyra, Zakynthos, Chandax ( Heraklion in Crete ), Rodes, Kos, Patmos, S. Lemonias and Myrtinisiotisses ( Lesvos ), Mykonos, Naxos.

Indeed, according to the Chronicle of Monemvasia, the island served as a refuge for the Corinthians fleeing these incursions.

Venice still retained Aegina, Lepanto, Nauplia, Monemvasia, Coron, Modon, Navarino, Crete, Mykonos and Tinos.

In 1502 / 03, the new peace treaty left Venice with nothing but Cephalonia, Monemvasia and Nauplia, with their appurtenances in the Morea.

All the supplies of grain of Nauplia and Monemvasia had now to be imported from Turkish possessions, while corsairs rendered dangerous all traffic by sea.

With the peace of 1540, Venice ceded Nauplia and Monemvasia.

* 1821 – While Mora Rebellion continuing, Greeks captured Monemvasia Castle.

) The island also has ferries to Aegina, Poros, Spetses, Nafplion and Monemvasia.

By the terms of the treaties, William II was obliged to cede Mystras, Monemvasia and Maina in the Morea to the Byzantines.

Both Monemvasia and Candia have lent their names to modern grape varieties.

The Monemvasia grape was long thought to be ancestral to the western European Malvasia varieties, but recent DNA analysis does not suggest a close relationship between Monemvasia and any Malvasia varieties.

The fort of Monemvasia, and the castles of Argos, Nauplia and Corinth under Leo Sgouros held out until his suicide in 1208.

By 1212, these too had been conquered, and organized as the lordship of Argos and Nauplia, and only Monemvasia continued to hold out until 1248.

Street of Monemvasia.

A history of the invasion and occupation of the Peloponnese was recorded in the medieval Chronicle of Monemvasia.

In 1397 Theodore I Palaiologos deposed the local dynast of Monemvasia, who appealed to Sultan Bayezid I and was reinstated by Turkish troops.

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