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information about the
Region of Himara (Ancient Chimara).
This page will bring you to Himara -
located in Southwest Albania,
on the coast of Ionian Sea -
with its wonderful nature, splendid
beaches, beautiful people -
with their long history,
with their efforts to
conquer nature and man,
and hopefully with bright future.
for
HELP:
and
Australian
Himariotes...
Naples under Spanish suzerainty also recruited stradioti in the late 15th
and early 16th century. The first entry of stradioti into
Neapolitan or Spanish service occurred in the 1470's in the wake of
a revolt in the Mani under one Korkodeilos Kladas.
A Neapolitan ship picked up the rebels and brought to them Neapolitan territory, where together with Albanian refugees under the son of Scanderbeg, John Kastrioti, they participated in fomenting a revolt in the Himara (Cheimarra) region of Epirus. After the failure of this insurrection, most of Kladas' and Kastrioti's men, together with other refugees from Himara, served the Spanish in Italy.[39] Later in 1538, after the Venetians abandoned Corone, the Spanish government in Naples accepted many refugees from that Peloponnesian town and region, some of whom had served the Venetians as stradioti. These troops now took on service with the Spanish in Naples. Spain continued to employ stradioti in the 16th and 17th century, chiefly in Naples and elsewhere in Italy. The most important recruiting area for these troops was Cheimarra.[40]
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