Originally posted by tchaiku
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Albanians are described as still being masters of the Morea - who raided at will, spreading their attacks agains the Turks too. As an example, they completely wrecked Monemvasia. Andre Castellan described the upper city of Monemvasia as follows in 1797:
"a large heap of ruins. You see everywhere traces of the last war, the walls are riddled by bullets and blackened by the fire, the roads are strewn with debris from the bombs."
The Albanians profaned and burned down the church of Elkomenos, which remained 'unofficiated' during the larger part of the decade after 1770.
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