Didymoteicho is a small rural town in Greece, with rich historical, monumental, cultural elements and natural beauties. Many important personalities are related to the Castle State of Thrace, as they left their indelible traces over the centuries. Emperors, empresses, generals, politicians, patriarchs, writers, benefactors, artists, musicians, archaeologists, people of the theater and of the spirit in general, draw their origin from the Didymoteicho or lived and acted in it.
Each of these people "sculpted" in their own way, adding historical value, to the two centuries-old rocks where the two historically recorded founders of the city, the emperors Trajan (called Plotinopolis) and Justinian, created upon the foundations of ancient Thrace a city which the great Byzantine scholar Giorg Ostrogorski, as well as other historians, characterized as imperial. A milestone in the development and final naming of the city was the intervention of Justinian, who erected the Twin Walls on the two opposite hills, which strongly characterized the city, with the result that the name Plotinopolis was forgotten and from the ninth century onwards the name Didymoteicho prevailed .
Part of this rich heritage of Didymoteichos and its Greek Orthodox culture are the thirteen Saints who are directly or indirectly related to the city and its surroundings. The thirteen Saints of Didymoteichus include a patriarch, two bishops, two priests, an emperor, a queen, five monks and a layman. In the pages of this book, the reader will be informed about the lives of the Saints of Didymoteichos, which chronologically belong to the Roman/Byzantine, as well as the Ottoman period. At the same time, he will be informed about the historical and social elements of the city, as well as other areas where the Saints lived and worked, related to the important Castle-state of Thrace.
Exploring the lives and legacy they left behind thirteen Saints in the castle state of Thrace.
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