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Modern times: Ottoman period


Fresco (1920’s?) that was decorating a café in Krinides until the early 1990’s: it shows the spring of Dikili Tash and the road with camels passing; the tell is shown on the right.

The fall of Constantinople in 1453 symbolically marks the beginning of Ottoman rule. From the 15th to the 19th century Drama is the local capital, and a new village, Rakça, emerged at short distance from the former city of Philippi, which was by then deserted. The edges of the plain were renowned for their fertility. The cultivation of cotton rose during the 17th and intensified during the 18th century. In Dikili Tash, a water-mill was built a few meters southeast of the mound and an inn (“khani”) next to the monument of Caius Vibius. Both buildings are mentioned by L. Heuzey, who visited the area in 1861. Shortly before the First World War, eastern Macedonia became the subject of conflict between the former citizens of the Ottoman Empire. It was initially annexed by Bulgaria (1912), but ultimately became part of Greece in 1913.
View of the tell in 1922, towards the Southeast; in the foreground, the spring The monument of Caius Vibius in 1920. The monument of Caius Vibius and the “khani” in 1861, towards the North-East (Heuzey, Daumet, Mission archéologique de Macédoine, pl. I, 1).


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