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15-581: Feres may refer to: Feres, Evros , a town in the Evros regional unit, Greece Feres, Magnesia , a town in Magnesia, Greece Bia and Branca Feres (born 1988), Brazilian synchronized swimmers, models, actresses and identical twins María Ester Feres (1943 – 2021) was a Chilean politician and lawyer See also [ edit ] Feres doctrine - see Feres v. United States Fere Topics referred to by

30-513: A mixed Greek and Turkish population. The fortifications had been party destroyed, and the katholikon of the monastery had been converted into a mosque. The area was taken by Bulgaria in 1913 following Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913. In 1920, as a result of the Treaty of Neuilly and subsequent agreements, the town was given to Greece. The settlements was created with the migration of Arvanites from Turkey in 1923. They largely originate from

45-542: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Feres, Evros Feres grew out of the Theotokos Kosmosoteira monastery, erected in 1152 by the sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos , a son of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos as his residence and final resting place. At the time, the site is described as deserted and densely overgrown, and

60-424: Is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): Byzantine civil war of 1352%E2%80%931357 The Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357 was an armed conflict resulting from and following the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 . The war pitted Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos against John VI Kantakouzenos and his eldest son Matthew Kantakouzenos . John V emerged victorious as

75-592: The Palaiologoi outright and install the Kantakouzenoi as the reigning dynasty. Kantakouzenos' eldest son, Matthew, also resented being passed over in favour of John V. To placate him, a semi-autonomous appanage covering much of western Thrace was created. It doubled as a march against the new Serbian Empire of Stephen Dushan . Steadily deteriorating relations between Matthew, who now ruled eastern Thrace, and John V, who lived in western Thrace, sowed

90-707: The declining popularity of Kantakouzenos, succeeded in entering the capital in November 1354. John VI Kantakouzenos abdicated and retired to a monastery. Matthew held out in Thrace and made war upon the Serbians in 1356. Later, Matthew gathered an army of 5,000 Turks and marched on Serres, the Serbian-held capital of John Ugleisha. Stephen Urosh V , whose mother also ruled at Serres, decided to raise an army to defend his mother. In 1357, when Matthew and his Turks attacked,

105-572: The inhabitants of the villages of Qytezë and Sultanköy . The municipality was created in 1986 and included the settlements of Ardanio, Doriskos, Feres, Kavisos, Monastiraki and Poros. Under the Capodistrian Plan (2539/1997) in 1997, the old communities of Peplos, Pylaia and Tryfilli joined the municipality. The settlement is served by a railway station on the Alexandroupoli–Svilengrad line . The municipal unit Feres

120-486: The monastery and his other fiefs in the region. In 1324, the Bulgarian tsar Michael Shishman invaded Byzantine Thrace and plundered up to the vicinity of Bera, but the local population fled to the fortified settlements. Bera too had by this time become a fortified town and refuge for the local peasants. In 1329/30, the area was raided by Turks. In 1335–1341, the brothers Manuel and John Asanes were held prisoners in

135-461: The monastery-fortress, and were only released in 1341, when their brother-in-law John VI Kantakouzenos was proclaimed emperor at nearby Didymoteicho , beginning the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 . Kantakouzenos camped his army in the area in March 1342, but did not attack the fortress because of the presence of the monks, only for it to be seized by an opposing force under John Vatatzes . During

150-561: The next winter, the fleet of the Aydınid Turks under Umur Bey anchored there, but many of its crews froze to death. John Asanes captured Bera in 1347. During the Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357 , Bera was captured by the forces of John V Palaiologos in 1355. Bera was conquered by the Ottomans under Lala Shahin Pasha in the early 1370s, and by 1433, it is recorded as a town with

165-446: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Feres . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feres&oldid=1246921660 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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180-486: The seeds for the resumption of the civil war. Open warfare broke out in 1352, when John V, supported by Venetian and Serbian troops, launched an attack on Matthew Kantakouzenos. John Kantakouzenos came to his son's aid with 10,000 Ottoman troops who retook the cities of Thrace, plundering them in the process. In October 1352, at Demotika, the Ottoman force met and defeated 4,000 Serbians provided to John V by Dushan. This

195-626: The sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire , but the destruction brought about by the civil war left the Byzantine state in ruins. In the aftermath of the 1341–1347 conflict , John VI Kantakouzenos established himself as senior emperor and tutor over the young John V Palaiologos. However, this state of affairs did not last long. Supporters of the Palaiologoi still distrusted him, while his own partisans would have preferred to depose

210-606: Was known as Bera. The monastery, which was surrounded by a double set of walls, became the core of a larger settlement. A church dedicated to St. Prokopios was built outside the monastery walls for the local villagers. In the partition of the Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade , the pertinentia de Bira fell to the individual Crusaders' share, and came under the control of Geoffrey of Villehardouin , who sent his nephew Anseau de Courcelles to take over

225-701: Was the Ottomans' first victory in Europe. Two years later, their capture of Gallipoli marked the beginning of the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans, culminating a century later in the Fall of Constantinople . Meanwhile, John V fled to the island of Tenedos , from where he made an unsuccessful attempt to seize Constantinople in March 1353. John VI Kantakouzenos responded by having Matthew crowned as co-emperor, but John V Palaiologos, enlisting Genoese support and relying on

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