“I went to the nearest village, called Galata and I spent the night at a christian’s place with my fellows, who were priests. Let it be known that the Soleas villages have very few muslim residents, that the majority of them are Greek Orthodox Christians, with many temples and priests. This village is the most beautiful of all. It has a lot of fruit trees and there are flowing waters situated close to the mentioned above Klarion river”.
Vasileios Barsky, 1735.
