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§ VII—The Byzantine Castle of Avret-Hissar
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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About eight miles south-west of Kilkish or Kukuš, on the right bank of the river Zensko, is the ruined village of Avret-Hissar. Facing the village, on the left bank of the stream, is a prominent rocky spur, rising steeply from the river and crowned by the remains of a remarkable mediaeval building.
This was correctly identified by Leake, who does not appear to have visited the site, as the castle of Γυναικόκαστρο which played a prominent part in the history of this region in the fourteenth century. As I know of no published description of it, these notes seem to be worth publication in the hopes that a fuller study of the site may be made now that exploration in this area is more feasible.
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page 98 note 1 Travels in Northern Greece, iii. p. 479, note 3.
page 98 note 2 Cantacuzenus, ii. 38; cf. iv. 20, 22. (Reference is to the Venice edition of 1729.)
page 98 note 3 Cantacuzenus, ii. 38; cf. iv. 20.
page 99 note 1 Hist. xiii. I, 5. It is about 22 miles in a straight line.
page 99 note 2 Cantacuzenus, iii. 38, 39.
page 99 note 3 Cantacuzenus, iv. 20. The date is not clear from the narrative.
page 99 note 4 loc. cit.
page 99 note 5 Cantacuzenus, iv. 21; quoted by Leake, op. cit. p. 478 f.; cf. Tafel, , De Thessalonica eiusque agro dissertatio geographica (Berlin, 1839), pp. 236, 279–281.Google Scholar
page 99 note 6 Hadschi Chalfa, Rumelia et Bosnia, p. 84.
page 102 note 1 B.S.A. xii. (1905–6), p. 426.