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'''Ypati''' ({{langx|el|Υπάτη}}) is a village and a former [[municipalities of Greece|municipality]] in [[Phthiotis]], central peninsular [[Greece]]. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of [[Lamia (city)|Lamia]], of which it is a municipal unit.<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=[[Government Gazette (Greece)|Government Gazette]]}}</ref> The municipal unit has an area of 257.504&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf|publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece|title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)|language=el}}</ref> In 2021 its population was 3,537 for the municipal unit, and 440 for the settlement of Ypati itself.<ref name=census21/> The town has a long history, being founded at the turn of the 5th/4th century BC as the capital of the [[Aenianes]]. During the [[Roman Greece|Roman period]] the town prospered and was regarded as the chief city of [[Thessaly]], as well as a bishopric. It was probably abandoned in the 7th century as a result of the [[Slavs|Slavic]] invasions, but was re-established by the 9th century as '''Neopatras'''. The town became prominent as a [[metropolitan see]] and was the capital of the [[Byzantine Greeks|Greek]] principality of Thessaly in 1268–1318 and of the [[Catalan Company|Catalan]] [[Duchy of Neopatras]] from 1319 to 1391. It was conquered by the Ottomans in the early 15th century and remained under Ottoman rule until the [[Greek War of Independence]].
== Geography ==
[[File:Ypati.jpg|thumbnail|left|View of Ypati from west]]Ypati is around 30&nbsp;km west of [[Thermopylae]] and north of the [[Oiti]] mountains and [[Xerisa]] river, it is also 25&nbsp;km west of [[Lamia (city)|Lamia]] south of the [[Greek National Road 38|GR-38]] (Lamia - Karpenissi - Agrinio), around 230&nbsp;km NNW of [[Athens]] and about 50&nbsp;km east of [[Karpenissi]], it overlooks the [[Spercheios]] to the north.  The geography includes forests and grasslands to the south in higher elevations. [[Phocis]] lies to the south.  Around 3&nbsp;km northwest are the famous springs that date to ancient times.  It is around a few kilometres from the mountains.
== History ==
=== Antiquity ===
In Antiquity, the city was known as '''Hypate''' ({{lang|grc|Ὑπάτη}}) or '''Hypata''' ({{lang|grc|Ὑπάτα}}), probably a corruption of ''hypo Oita'' ({{lang|grc|ὑπὸ Οἴτα}}, meaning "near the [[Mount Oeta]]").
The city was founded in the late 5th/early 4th century BC, as the capital of the [[Aenianes]] tribe and their {{transl|grc|[[koinon]]}}("league, commonwealth").<ref name="NP-Hypata">{{cite encyclopedia | last = Kramolisch | first = Herwig | title = Hypata | encyclopedia = Brill's New Pauly | date = October 2006 | publisher = Brill Online, 2015 | access-date = 23 December 2015 | url = http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/hypata-e519570 }}</ref><ref name="NP-Aenianes">{{cite encyclopedia | last = Kramolisch | first = Herwig | title = Aenianes | encyclopedia = Brill's New Pauly | date = October 2006 | publisher = Brill Online, 2015 | access-date = 23 December 2015 | url = http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/aenianes-e110250 }}</ref>  In later times it belonged to the [[Amphictyony]] of [[Amphela]]. [[Herodotus]] records the nearby hot springs (now [[Loutra Ypatis]]), which were visited in Antiquity. It was also a [[polis]] (city-state).<ref name=Poleis>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|url= https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans |url-access= limited |year= 2004|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Thessaly and Adjacent Regions|page= [https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n724 708]}}</ref>
In around 344 BC, the city came under [[Macedon]]ian rule, which continued, except for a brief interruption during the [[Lamian War]], until the city became a member of the [[Aetolian League]] {{circa|273 BC}}.<ref name="NP-Hypata"/> As a member of the League, it was ravaged by the [[Roman Republic|Roman]] general [[Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 191 BC)|Manius Acilius Glabrio]] in 191 BC during his advance through Thessaly during the [[Roman-Seleucid War]], and hosted the Aetolian peace negotiations with Roman general [[Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 195 BC)|Lucius Valerius Flaccus]] two years later.<ref>{{Cite Livy|36.27-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Polybius|20.9-11}}</ref> After the conclusion of peace between Roman  and the Aetolian League, Hypata remained as the only Aetolian possession north of Oeta.<ref name="NP-Hypata"/> In 168 BC, Rome re-established the ''koinon'' of the Aenianes as an autonomous polity, with its own [[eponymous]] magistrates and coins; Hypata became again its capital, and entered a period of renewed prosperity.<ref name="NP-Hypata"/><ref name="NP-Aenianes"/>
After the [[Battle of Pydna]], from the year 167 BC, the city was independent for a period of about twenty years, until creation of the [[Aenianian League]], a confederation of territories of the Aenianes that was directed by five officials, although in Hypata, the capital, two [[archons]] also governed.<ref>Jorge Martínez de Tejada Garaizábal, [http://eprints.ucm.es/16367/1/T33857.pdf ''Instituciones, sociedad, religión y léxico de Tesalia de la antigüedad desde la época de la independencia hasta el fin de la edad antigua (siglos VIII AC-V DC)'', pp.237,432.]</ref> Aenis, including Hypata, was united with the [[Thessalian League]] in the first century BC. Possibly this was done by [[Augustus]] following his victory in the [[Battle of Actium]], foundation of [[Nicopolis]], and reorganisation of the [[Amphictyonic League]] in 31 BC,<ref name="NP-Hypata"/> but numismatic evidence suggests that it had already occurred before 44 BC.<ref name=NSKylloi>{{cite journal |last1=Sekunda |first1=Nicholas V. |title=The Kylloi and Eubiotoi of Hypata during the Imperial Period |journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |date=1997 |volume=118 |pages=207–226 |url=http://www.jstor.com/stable/20190066 |issn=0084-5388}}</ref> The city remained part of Thessaly thereafter. Under Augustus, the city received the right to refer to itself as "Hypata Augusta," which it continued to do throughout the Roman Imperial period.<ref name=NSKylloi/> By the 2nd century AD, it was counted as the most important Thessalian city.<ref name="NP-Hypata"/> The archaeological remains indicate a substantial city.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rozaki |first1=Stavroula |journal=AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik|date=1983 |volume=16 |pages=132–142}}</ref>
A local family, who mostly used the names Cyllus and Eubiotus became the league's most prominent family, with members serving as the League's leading magistrate, the general (''strategos''), until the office was abolished in the mid-second century AD.<ref name=NSKylloi/> They also began to participate in wider provincial politics under [[Domitian]], when a Cyllus was manager of the Amphictyonic League at [[Delphi]] and received [[Roman citizenship]].<ref name=NSKylloi/> In the early second century AD, his son Titus Flavius Eubiotus held the same post, funded the [[Pythian Games]], was high priest of the [[Imperial cult]] in Thessaly, and held the post of [[Helladarch]].<ref name=NSKylloi/> Another Hypatan of this time, Lucius Cassius Petraeus funded the Pythian Games twice. Both Eubiotus and Petraeus appear as interlocutors in the philosophical dialogues of [[Plutarch]].<ref name=NSKylloi/> Hypata joined the [[Panhellenion]], which was established in [[Athens]] by [[Hadrian]] in 131/2 AD, and [[Titus Flavius Cyllus (Panhellene)|Titus Flavius Cyllus]], a member of the leading family, funded the Great Penhellenic games organised by the Panhellenion and was the archon of the Panhellenion for AD 153-157.<ref name=NSKylloi/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Benjamin |first1=Anna S. |title=Two Dedications in Athens to Archons of the Panhellenion |journal=Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens |date=1968 |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=341–344 |doi=10.2307/147601 |jstor=147601 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/147601 |issn=0018-098X}}</ref> In ''The Golden Ass'', [[Apuleius]] presents the area of Hypata as being infested with bandits at this time and a poem written at this time by [[Ammianus]], which mocks Cyllus as a "spear-moron", might indicate that he had undertaken unsuccessful expeditions to suppress this problem.<ref name=NSKylloi/> A daughter of the family, Flavia Habroea, who may have a cameo at the beginning of [[Lucian]]'s ''Lucius or the Ass'', married [[Marcus Ulpius Leurus]], a fellow Thessalian and a Roman consul.<ref name=NSKylloi/> Their son [[Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus]] was a consul in the 220s and a major benefactor at Athens around 230. He seems to have been related to [[Emperor Pupienus]] in some way.<ref name=NSKylloi/>
=== Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman rule ===
[[File:Coat of Arms of the Duchy of Neopatria.svg|thumb|100px|Coat of arms of the [[Duchy of Neopatras]]]]
The city is still mentioned in the 6th century under its ancient name by [[Procopius]], who recorded repairs to its walls by Emperor [[Justinian I]], and in the ''[[Synecdemus]]''.<ref name="TIB"/><ref name="ODB">{{ODB | last = Gregory | first = Timothy E. | title = Neopatras | page = 1454}}</ref>
The city was probably abandoned after the Slavic invasions of the 7th century, but reappears in the 9th century under the name '''Neai Patrai''' ({{lang|grc|Νέαι Πάτραι}}, "New Patras") or '''Patrai Helladikai''' ({{lang|grc|Πάτραι Ἑλλαδικαὶ}}, "Patras in [[Hellas (theme)|Hellas]]").<ref name="TIB"/><ref name="ODB"/> [[Nicephorus Gregoras]], writing in the 14th century, mentions it as being a strongly fortified place in the 12th century.<ref>[[Nicephorus Gregoras]], 4.9. p. 112, ed. Bonn.</ref> Otherwise, until the 13th century, the city is mentioned only as an ecclesiastical centre (see below).
Coming briefly under [[Latinokratia|Latin]] rule after the [[Fourth Crusade]], the city was recovered by the ruler of [[Despotate of Epirus|Epirus]], [[Theodore Komnenos Doukas]], in 1218. It remained in Epirote hands thereafter, except for a brief period when it was occupied by [[Empire of Nicaea|Nicaean]] troops after the [[Battle of Pelagonia]] in 1259.<ref name="TIB"/> After {{circa|1268}} it became the capital of the independent principality of [[Thessaly]] under [[John I Doukas]] and his successors, until the death of [[John II Doukas]] in 1318.<ref name="TIB"/> The [[Catalan Company]] seized the city in 1319 and made it the centre of the new [[Duchy of Neopatras]], which was joined with the recently conquered [[Duchy of Athens]] to the south. Neopatras was one of the last remaining Catalan possessions in Greece, being captured by [[Nerio I Acciaioli|Nerio Acciaioli]] in 1391. Three years later it fell to the [[Ottoman Turks]] under [[Bayezid I]].<ref name="TIB"/><ref name="ODB"/> The Turks were evicted for a time, in 1402, by [[Theodore I Palaiologos|Theodore Palaiologos]], [[Despot of the Morea]]. The Turks recovered it in 1414, the Byzantines again in 1416, until it was definitively conquered by the Ottomans in 1423. Under [[Ottoman Greece|Ottoman rule]], the city became known as '''Patracık''' ("Little Patras"), rendered in Greek as '''Patratziki''' (Πατρατζίκι).<ref name="TurkRevolution">{{citation | script-title=el:Τουρκοκρατία - Επανάσταση | url = http://www.ypati.gr/article.php?c=9&a=43 | language=el | access-date=21 May 2010 | publisher=Municipality of Ypati}}</ref>
Early 19th-century sources report that the town was the centre of a ''[[kaza]]'' (district) in the [[Sanjak of Inebahti]] of the [[Morea Eyalet]].<ref name="Jahrbücher">{{cite journal | journal = Jahrbücher der Literatur | volume = 49–50 | publisher = C. Gerold | location = Vienna | year = 1830 | title = Reisen ins Osmanische Reich | language = de | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3_0aAAAAYAAJ | page = 22}}</ref>
=== Revolutionary period ===
In the [[Greek War of Independence]], Ypati (Patratziki) was the scene of three battles :
* On 18 April 1821, when the Turkish-held town was attacked by the Greek rebels under Mitsos Kondogiannis, [[Dyovouniotis]], [[Athanasios Diakos]] and Bakogiannis. The garrison was defeated and negotiations for its surrender began, but the arrival of a large Turkish relief army forced the rebels to withdraw.<ref name="TurkRevolution"/>
* In May 1821, the Greek commanders [[Yannis Gouras]], Skaltsodimos and Safakas intended to attack the town in order to halt the Ottoman advance towards [[Livadeia]]. Their forces however were attacked first, and although they beat back the Turkish assault, the plans to take the town were dropped.<ref name="TurkRevolution"/>
* On 2 April 1822, when the town itself was finally taken by the forces of the captains Kondogiannis, Panourgias, Skaltsas and Safakas. The castle, however, with its 1,500-strong garrison, held out. A final attack against it was successful, evicting the garrison, but again the revolutionaries had to withdraw due to the arrival of Ottoman reinforcements from [[Lamia (city)|Lamia]].<ref name="TurkRevolution"/>
Ypati finally joined Greece in 1830 and revived its ancient name.  The municipality of Ypati was founded on January 10, 1834.{{citation needed |date=May 2024}}
=== Modern era ===
The town suffered during the [[Axis occupation of Greece during World War II|Axis occupation]]: 15 inhabitants were shot as reprisals for the [[Operation Harling|Gorgopotamos sabotage]] in 1942.{{citation needed |date=May 2024}}
The worst blow came on 17 June 1944, when the Germans surrounded the town as part of [[reprisals]] for attacks by [[EAM-ELAS]] partisans based in the region. They executed 28 people, wounded another 30, and burned down 375 out of the town's 400 buildings. A memorial in the town centre commemorates the event and Ypati has been declared a "martyr city" by the Greek state.<ref name="munic-iroon"/>
== Ecclesiastical history ==
The Greek [[menologium]] commemorates, on 28 March, [[Saint Herodion]], traditionally held to be one of 70 disciples mentioned in the Gospel (whom the [[Apostle Paul]] of Tarsus calls a relative in [[Epistle to the Romans]], ch.16, v.11) as first bishop of Neopatras.{{citation needed |date=May 2024}}
The city is historically attested as an episcopal see from the 3rd century on.<ref name="NP-Hypata"/><ref name="TIB">{{Tabula Imperii Byzantini | volume = 1 | pages = 223–224}}</ref> Initially it was a [[suffragan]] of the [[Metropolis of Larissa]], in the sway of the [[Patriarchate of Constantinople]]. Its first historically documented bishop was Leo, participant at the [[Fourth Council of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox)|Council of Costantinople of 879-880]] which rehabilitated Patriarch [[Photios I of Constantinople]].<ref name="Le Quien">{{Oriens Christianus|volume=2|article=Ecclesia Hypatorum; Ecclesia Novarum Patrarum|at=cols. 119–120, 123–126}}</ref>
It was raised to a [[metropolitan bishop]]ric ca. 900, listed in the ''[[Notitia Episcopatuum]]'' attributed to the Byzantine emperor [[Leo VI the Wise|Leo VI]] ({{reign|886|912}}), as the penultimate metropolitan see under the Patriarchate of Constantinople with one [[suffragan see]], the [[Diocese of Marmaritzana]].<ref name="Le Quien"/><ref>Heinrich Gelzer, ''Ungedruckte und ungenügend veröffentlichte Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum'', in: ''Abhandlungen der philosophisch-historische classe der bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften'', 1901, p. 559, nnº 665-666. Le Quien erroneously considered it a suffragan of [[Euchaita]] (in [[Pontus (region)|Pontus]]).</ref> A 10th-century seal holds the name of archbishop Cosmas,<ref>Gustave Léon Schlumberger, ''Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin'', 1884, p. 176</ref> while the Metropolitan Nicholas signed a synodal decree from Patriarch [[Sisinius II of Constantinople]] around 997.<ref name="Le Quien"/>
Until the 13th century, the city is most notable as an ecclesiastical centre. In the 12th century it had three suffragans: Marmaritzana (again) plus [[Diocese of Hagia]] and [[Diocese of Bela]], but in the 13th century, it was reduced again to Marmaritzana alone, before ceding this too to the [[Archdiocese of Lamia]] (Zetounion), probably after 1318.<ref name="TIB"/> At the turn of the 13th century, its bishop, [[Euthymios Malakes]], was a correspondent of the [[metropolitan of Athens]], [[Michael Choniates]].<ref name="TIB"/><ref name="Le Quien"/>
After the [[Fourth Crusade]], the city was made a [[Latin Church|Latin rite]] archdiocese, the [[Latin Archbishopric of Neopatras]]. The see was suppressed after the Greek reconquest, but restored when the [[Catalan Company|Catalans]] established the [[Duchy of Neopatras]] in 1319, and remained active until the Ottoman conquest at the turn of the 15th century. In 1933, it was restored as a Catholic [[titular see]].{{citation needed |date=May 2024}}
== Administrative subdivisions ==
The municipal unit of Ypati is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets) :<ref name=Kallikratis/>
* Argyrochori
* Dafni
* Kastanea (Kastanea, Kapnochori)
* Kompotades
* Ladikou
* Loutra Ypatis (Loutra Ypatis, Varka, Magoula, Nea Ypati)
* Lychno (Lychno, Alonia)
* Mexiates
* Mesochori Ypatis
* Neochori Ypatis
* Peristeri
* Pyrgos
* Rodonia (Rodonia, Karya)
* Syka Ypatis
* Vasiliki
* '''Ypati''' (Ypati, Amalota)
== Population ==
{| class=wikitable
|-
! Year !! Village !! Community !! Municipality<br>(after 2011 Mun. Unit)
|-
| 1991 || — || 929 || 6,795
|-
| 2001 || 724 || 849 || 6,855
|-
| 2011 || 496 || 552 || 4,541
|-
| 2021 || - || 440 || 3,537
|}
== Archaeology ==
When visited by [[William Martin Leake]] in the 19th century, there are still considerable remains of the ancient town. He observed many large quadrangular blocks of stones and foundations of ancient walls on the heights, as well as in the buildings of the town. In the metropolitan church he noticed a handsome shaft of white marble, and on the outside of the wall an inscription in small characters of the best times. He also discovered an inscription on a broken block of white marble, lying under a plane-tree near a fountain in the Jewish cemetery.<ref>[[William Martin Leake]], ''Northern Greece'', vol. ii, p. 14 ''et seq.''</ref><ref>{{Cite DGRG|title=Hypata}}</ref>
== Monuments and sights ==
[[File:Museum of Byzantine archaeology Ypati..jpg|thumb|right|The [[Byzantine Museum of Phthiotis]]]]
The town is still dominated by its medieval castle, probably built in its present form in the 13th century, although the large round tower likely dates to the Catalan period. The castle's last military use was during the [[Greek Civil War]].<ref name="munic-castle">{{cite web | url = http://www.lamia.gr/el/content/palaio-kastro-kai-byzantinos-naos-agias-sofias | title = Παλαιό Κάστρο και Βυζαντινός Ναός Αγίας Σοφίας | language = el | publisher = Municipality of Lamia | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="munic-restoration">{{cite web | url = http://www.lamia.gr/el/nea_deltia/apokatastasi-kai-anadeixi-mesaionikoy-kastroy-ypatis | title = Αποκατάσταση και ανάδειξη Μεσαιωνικού Κάστρου Υπάτης | date = 16 December 2015 | language = el | publisher = Municipality of Lamia | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref> The castle was restored in 2011–15 with EU funds under the supervision of the 24th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities and is open to the public from 19 December 2015.<ref name="munic-restoration"/><ref name="ingr">{{cite web | url = http://news.in.gr/culture/article/?aid=1500046593 | title = Επισκέψιμο και πάλι το Μεσαιωνικό Κάστρο Υπάτης | date = 17 December 2015 | language = el | publisher = in.gr | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref>
The [[Byzantine Museum of Phthiotis]], housed in an old barracks building erected in 1836 and open to the public since 2007,<ref name="museum-history">{{cite web | url =http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/gh152.jsp?obj_id=3318 | title = Βυζαντινό Μουσείο Φθιώτιδας: Ιστορικό | language = el | author = Georgios Pallis | publisher = Greek Ministry of Culture | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref> features Byzantine artifacts discovered in archaeological digs across the [[Phthiotis Prefecture]], including mosaics and items of daily use, as well as a significant coin collection.<ref name="museum-description">{{cite web | url =http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/gh151.jsp?obj_id=3318 | title = Βυζαντινό Μουσείο Φθιώτιδας: Περιγραφή | language = el | author = Georgios Pallis | publisher = Greek Ministry of Culture | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref> The town features also the Byzantine-era Church of Hagia Sophia, built on the site of an older, early Christian church. The church masonry incorporates many pieces of [[spolia]] from the early and middle Byzantine periods, as well as the post-Byzantine era. At the southern side, archaeologists have discovered remnants of a 5th-century [[baptistery]].<ref name="munic-castle"/> The town's old cathedral church, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, dates to the 18th century, but portions of a mosaic floor and reused architectural elements point to the existence, on the same location, of an early Christian basilica.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lamia.gr/el/content/naos-agioy-nikolaoy-kai-psifidoto | title = Ναός Αγίου Νικολάου και ψηφιδωτό | language = el | publisher = Municipality of Lamia | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref>
Notable sights are also the "Kakogianneio" Astronomical School and [[planetarium]],<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lamia.gr/el/content/astrosholeio-ypatis | title = "Κακογιάννειο" Αστεροσχολείο Υπάτης | language = el | publisher = Municipality of Lamia | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref> the traditional [[water mill]] at the waterfall near the entrance of the town,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lamia.gr/el/content/katarraktis-kai-neromylos-ypatis | title = Καταρράκτης και Νερόμυλος Υπάτης | language = el | publisher = Municipality of Lamia | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref> and the martyrs' monument at the central town square, dedicated to the people executed by the Germans on 17 June 1944.<ref name="munic-iroon">{{cite web | url = http://www.lamia.gr/el/content/mnimeio-martyrikis-polis-ypatis | title = Μνημείο μαρτυρικής πόλης Υπάτης | language = el | publisher = Municipality of Lamia | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref> Due to the proximity of Oeta, Ypati has also become a centre for excursions to the mountain, and is the starting point of several [[trekking]] paths.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lamia.gr/el/content/oreibatika-monopatia | title = Ορειβατικά Μονοπάτια Υπάτης | language = el | publisher = Municipality of Lamia | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref>
The 15th-century [[Agathonos Monastery]] is located some 3&nbsp;km west of the town.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Koder | first1 = Johannes | last2 = Hild | first2 = Friedrich | title = Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Band 1: Hellas und Thessalia | language = de | publisher = Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften | location = Vienna | year = 1976 | isbn = 3-7001-0182-1 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/tabulaimperiibyz0000unse/page/117 117–118] | url = https://archive.org/details/tabulaimperiibyz0000unse/page/117 }}</ref><ref name="odysseus">{{cite web | url = http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/2/gh251.jsp?obj_id=1945 | title = Μονή Αγάθωνος: Περιγραφή | author = Vasiliki Sythiakaki | publisher = Greek Ministry of Culture | language = el | access-date = 19 September 2015}}</ref> The monastery also houses the Oiti Natural History Museum, dedicated to the geology, climate, flora and fauna of Mount Oeta and its national park.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lamia.gr/el/content/moyseio-fysikis-istorias-oitis | title = Μουσείο Φυσικής Ιστορίας Οίτης | language = el | publisher = Municipality of Lamia | access-date = 17 December 2015}}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[List of Catholic dioceses in Greece]]
== References ==
<references/>
== Sources and external links ==
{{commons category}}
* [http://www.ypati.gr Official Website]
* [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1250.htm GCatholic - (former and) titular Catholic see]
; Bibliography - ecclesiastical history
* Pius Bonifacius Gams, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', Leipzig 1931, p.&nbsp;429
* Michel Lequien, ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus'', Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 123-126
* Gaetano Moroni, lemma 'Patrasso o Neopatra o Nova Patrasso', in ''Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica'', vol. LI, Venice 1851, p.&nbsp;291
* Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', vol. 1, p.&nbsp;362; vol. 2, p.&nbsp;XXXII
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|East = [[Lamia (city)|Lamia]]
|Southeast = [[Gorgopotamos]]
|South = [[Kallieis]]
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|West = [[Spercheiada]]
|Northwest = [[Makrakomi]]
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[[Category:Lamia (city)]]
[[Category:Mount Oeta]]
[[Category:Byzantine castles in Central Greece]]
[[Category:Spercheios Valley]]
[[Category:Populated places in Phthiotis]]