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 The mythological reports round Parnassos and Davlia are lots of. The two areas have been connected with many events in the Greek Mythology. The mount Parnassos is said that it took his name from the homonym son of Neptune and nymph Kleodoras. In any case, in the pelasgjki 'pre greek' language his name means the taller mountain. For the ancient Greeks it constituted important region, as he was dedicated in the gods Apollo and Dionysus. There, in their slopes Apollo killed the dragon Pythona and founded the well-known oracle of Delphi in the foot of mountain close to the Kastallia springs as well as the Korykeion Andron in honor of the nymph Korykeias which he felt also in love. Fruit of their love was Lykoreas from which it should took also her name the top of Liakoura. With many mythological proceedings is connected also Davlia. The acquaintance is the fable of Tirea, the king of Thraces, which lived in ancient Davlia. According to the delivery, Tireas raped the Filomila, sister of his spouse, Proknis. The two women punished him by killing his son, Ity, and constrained him to eat the fleshes of his own child. Tireas run after them and at the moment of their arrest, wished they are transformed in birds. The gods heard them and transformed the Prokni in nightingale, the Filomila in swallow and Tirea in hoopoe. In older literary texts you can meet the name "davliada" instead of the nightingale. This emanates from the fable, in fact to testify, that a woman of Davlia changed in nightingale. The above fable became widely acquaintance and supplied Greek poetry. Characteristic example constitutes the description of lamentation of Pennelope by Homer (T 518): "Like the ashy nightingale, the girl of Pandaros, When appears the spring, lamentation songs begins, in the dense leafage of trees where seats, and pours, changing aims, polifonic songs, when lamenting her beloved child Itylo, who carelessly she killed."

 Davlias original name testifies that its history starts from the era of mythology and the prehistory. Davlia's original name was Anakria but but very fast was changed to Davlis, a name which dates back millions of years and from which its present name originates from. With this name it is also reported by Homer (Iliad B 520), while Irodotos reports her as "Davlion polis" and the Sophocles (Antigoni, 734) and Thoukididis (Thoukididou History B29) as "Daulia". The last name reports also Strabon, who clarifies that her name emanates from the word "torch", that is to say dasy's, dense, and has to do with the fact that the region was covered by dense forests, the "daula". For the name "Davlis" there are two versions. First is the one that reports the geographer Strabon and cites also the sightseer Pausanias. Pausanias, of course, deposits also a different opinion, connecting the name with the nymph Daulida. The first inhabitants of Davlia were the Thraces and later the Viotians in their descent from Thessalis. Later, Davlia was populated by the Dorians and the Fokians and evolved in one of the greatest cities at that time.

The Ancient Acropol of Davlia.

It took part in the Trojan war with Epistrofos and shiedios as leaders and as Pausanias states, the inhabitants of Davlis were a few in the number comparing with the Fokians but were taller and stronger than the Fokians. The name "Davlia" appears to prevail afterwards the revolution of 1821, when in the subject Daul - was added the conclusion - eia. Davlia was built in the south-eastern side of Parnassos, near the street that led from Chaeroneia to Delphi. This street was the eminent "Schisti odos". The term "Schisti" derive from the fact that the street who started from Delphi was separated in two directions. A direction led to Thebes and the second to ancient Davlia. Of course, in the Schisti road were happened the crime of Oedipus against his father Laio. Describing the place of crime, the Sophocles writes in the tragedy of "Oidipoys Tyrant" (733): «Φωκίς μεν η γη κλήζεται, σχιστή δ' οδός ες ταύτα Δελφών καπό Δαυλίας άγει» (The region is named Fokida and the schisti road leads in this point from Delphi and from Aulida). In ancient Davlia is testified the existence of two important temples, Poliadas Athinas and Artemidos.

Ruins from Ancient Temple.

The existence of first temple is certified by Pausanias, who spokes also about a statue of God Athene. Also, in the region it should existed a famous monument, in the locality "Tronida". At last, in the street which led from ancient Davlia to Delphi Pausanias it states that existed a building called "Fokikon", the Parliament of Fokeon. Davlida and the other cities of region took part in the eminent Trojan war (1193-1184 p.H.), with leaders two brothers Schedio and Epistrofo, sons of Ifitos. As testifies Homer (Iliad, B, 517 k.e.), the mission of Fokikon cities was accompanied by 40 martial boats. Schedios was killed by the spear of Ektora (Iliad, R, 306 k.e.). The strategic location of Davlia became cause to be mixed many times in martial conflicts in her history accross the centuries. The 480 b.c. burnt by the army of Xerxi, who was directed to Delphi in order to ruin. With the retirement of Xerxi and the defeat of Mardonio in Plataies, the ancient Davleia was rebuilted. The 379 b.c. possessed again from Philippos B, while it was destroyed absolutely the 346 b.c. with all the federal Fokikes cities, in the end of the third Holy War.

Τhe Pantheon of Davlia.

Of course, her residents fought the 338 p.H. next to Thebes and the Athenians against the Macedonians in the battle of Chaeroneia. When the Romans attempted to occupy Davlia (the 198 b.c.), they were complicated a lot. According to testimony of the Latin writer Livio, "Davlis, because it its position over the tall hill, it was not possible to devastate neither with ladders either with battering rams". However finally, they accomplished to destroy her. In 1444 a.c. the region was occupied by the despot of Mystral, Konstantinos Palaiologos, two years later taken from the Ottoman sultan, Mourat B, while in 1460 a.c. felt absolutely in the hands of Turks. In the years of Ottoman domination Davlia served as seat of Orthodoxe Bishopric and between 1653-1655 a.c. as seat of Archdiocese. The residents of Davlia shown big courage in 1821, when they fought under the guidance of Athanassios Diakos in the battle for the release of Levadia. Important dates in the fight against the Turks stood in 1825, when Ioannis Gkouras won the Turks near Davlia causing them heavy losses, but also the 24 November of 1826 when Karaiskakis and his men colided there with 2.200 Turkalbans, causing them debacle. The fighting spirit of the people of Davlia revealed at the Micrasiatic expedition and in the second World War. At the Micrasiatic expedition was distinguished the colonel D. Kalliagakis. With courage and self-sacrifice repulsed Turkish forces, strengthening Nikolaos Plastiras forces. Finally, it lost his life in August 1922 in the Ali Veran. On 5 May 1943 the Italians accomplished to burn the village, but they didnt bend the partizan courage of its residents.

 The local architecture of Davlia, which day to day is lost, creates a complex image of a neoclassical village with a simple rigid square, simple, frugal, strict geometrical style tied up unbreakably with the climatic, geomorpholocic, social and economic conditions of the wider region. The Iron gates on the windows and in the skylights of the houses constitute some of the typical elements of the old houses. Of course all these elements are filtered through the temperament, the preferences and the needs of their residents. The houses are usually small in size, built close to each other with two floors and built of stone. The windows are ususally small but wide allowing the inhabitants to watch the streets outside. The plan of the floor is usually a square shape and the house inside is divided into two panels, one for the day living and the other for sleeping. In the Modern Davlia, the narrow streets are something common inside the village and small squares are shaped either without any reason or because of a stone fountain or a church. Even if the unordered postwar "reconstruction" and her policy functioned calamitously above in a very big part of traditional buildings, the last years emerge a tendency of residents and a sensitization of Local Self-government to the direction of maintenance and rescue of the "old".

 Exceptionally beautiful are the stone-built fountains that embelish various places of the village and constitute the relation with the water that the residents of the village in the ancient years had. The oldest fountains were built from stones which in the middle they had a sculpured stone in the shape of a basin in order for the people to drink from there and at the bottom of these stone fountains there is a larger watering place which it was used by the animals to drink water. Nowadays, the traveller even today can satisfy his thirst by drinking crystal running water from these stone built fountains.

 Small objects of daily use: container for collection of milk, a sieve, a mortar, a seal expedient, coper and a baking pan. A characteristic of the traditional art of Davlia are the famous in the region blankets. These blankets sometimes were essential supplement for a girl's dowry. Depending on their drawings and their way of manufacture, they were named as flokates, mpastes and velentzes. The loom it is a tool for textiles, very famous from the very old. In our village, the old traditional loom was used in order to spin carpets in various colors which were made from old clothes that had been cutted in stripes in order to use them in the loom. All dresses they were woven with local materials as cotton and wool.