Monastery of Panagia Mavriotissa, Kastoria, Greece.
The Monastery of Panagia Mavriotissa is a monastery that is built on the spot where troops of Byzantine military commander George Palaiologos encircled the attacking Normans in 1083. It is believed that the emperor Alexios I Komnenos r. 1081-1118 built the monastery there to commemorate the event.
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