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County of Salona

1205 CE – 1410 CE · capital Salona

Frankish lordship around Amfissa and Delphi in central Greece that passed from French to Catalan to Byzantine hands before falling to the Ottomans.

Origins

Boniface of Montferrat granted Salona, the medieval name of Amfissa, to the French knight Thomas d'Autremencourt in 1205. Its castle, built on the ancient acropolis, controlled the land between Mount Parnassus and the Gulf of Corinth, including the old sanctuary of Delphi and the port of Galaxidi.

Rule and society

The lords of Salona were vassals of the Principality of Achaea and neighbours of the Duchy of Athens, ruling a Greek peasant population through a small Frankish elite. Thomas III d'Autremencourt was killed in 1311 fighting the Catalan Company at the Battle of Halmyros. The Catalans took over, and the county later passed to the Fadrique family, a branch of the royal house of Sicily.

Decline and legacy

In 1394 the widow of Louis Fadrique, Helena Kantakouzene, lost Salona to Sultan Bayezid I. It was briefly held by the Despotate of the Morea and the Knights Hospitaller in the early 15th century before the Ottomans took it permanently in 1410.

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). County of Salona. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-salona
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“County of Salona.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-salona. Accessed .
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The Epoch Institute. “County of Salona.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-salona.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘County of Salona’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/county-of-salona (Accessed: ).

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