Avlonari
village in Euboea, Greece
Avlonari (Greek: Αυλωνάρι) is a village and a community (unit) of the Municipality
Kymi-Aliveri, in the eastern part of the Aegean island of Euboea, Greece. It was the seat of the municipality of Avlon, and the medieval town and bishopric of Aulon, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
The community includes the villages Chania, Dafni, Elaia and Lofiskos. Avlonari is situated on a hillside, 13km northeast of Aliveri, 15km south of Kymi, Greece and 47km east of Chalcis.
Population
History
Modern Avlonari is usually identified with Avlon or Aulon (Greek: Αὐλών), a town and bishopric attested since the 9th century. Aulon appears in the Notitiae Episcopatuum, commencing with that of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912) as a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Athens, in the sway of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. No names of its first-millennium bishops are known. The Byzantine-era church of St. Demetrios at Chania, in the lowland below Avlonari, built by reusing material from an earlier church, may have been the bishopric's seat.
After the Fourth Crusade (1202–04), Euboea was captured by Crusaders, who divided the island and established Lombard baronies, and Aulon became a diocese of the Latin Church.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2874428. Authority coordinates are 38.504, 24.122. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1202.
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