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Kassope or Cassope ( - Kassōpē, also Κασσωπία - Kassōpia and Κασσιόπη - Kassiopē) was an Ancient Greece cityAn Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen, 2005, page 346 in Epirus.
Kassope occupies a remote site on a high platform overlooking the sea, the Ambracian Gulf and the fertile lands to the south. The slopes of Mount Zalongo, where the Dance of Zalongo took place, are found to the north.
It is considered one of the best remaining examples of a city built on a rectilinear street grid of a Hippodamian plan in Greece.Guide Bleu, Greece. Hachette Livre, 2000. p. 627.
Massively damaged by Roman forces in 168-167 BC, Cassope page of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture Kassope was abandoned in 31 B.C. when the remaining inhabitants resettled to Nikopolis, the region's new capital.
Archaeology
The ruins of Kassope were visited and described by William Martin Leake in the early 19th century. Extensive excavations were performed by a Greek team under Sotiris Dakaris in 1952 and 1955, and in 1977-1983 by a team from the University of Ioannina together with the German Archaeological Institute, co-led by Dakaris, Wolfram Hoepfner, Konstantina Gravani, and Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner. The visible remains include Cyclopean walls, an agora, a theatre, civic buildings, and private houses.
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