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The fate of the town thereafter is somewhat obscure: it re-appears in 1317 as part of the theme of "Boleron and
Mosynopolis", and its bishopric was still active, but the historian Catherine Asdracha, in her 1972 survey of the
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In all these instances, the see appears under the name
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194:In ruins
172:Cultures
99:, Greece
97:Komotini
92:Location
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