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Venetians and Ottomans in the Southeast Peloponnese 193
The sporadic data for the Southeast Peloponnese which are
present from the three registers of the early years of the second
period of Ottoman rule, are certainly not sufficient to sketch the
picture of the region at this time, especially when we know of the
existence of several registers which would enable us to give a much
fuUer picture. However, to the degree that they provide some
information on villages in the districts of Epidavros Limira, Aghios
Petros and Prastos, they aUow us to conclude that at least just after
their conquest by the Ottoman Turks, the flourishing villages of the
preceding period were maintained in these regions and the various
monasteries on the slopes of Mount Parnon continued to operate.
In closing this preliminary study, I consider it necessary to repeat
that with full awareness of the lacunae, since no research specificaUy
on the Southeast Peloponnese has preceded, I submit the
information on the region I have available. Even this, as an initial
contribution, helps to fill in, like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, the great
gap in our knowledge about this part of the Morea in the Ottoman
period, and at the same time generates expectations and stimuli for
further persistent studies of the rich Ottoman archival material.