Anabolu (Gr. Nauplia) is a small harbour on the east coast of the Peloponnese (Morea) in the Argolian Gulf, situated on a rocky promontory dominated by Mount Palamidi. A Venetian town from 791/1389, it was an important site in a series of battles between the Ottomans and the Venetians for control of the Morea throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Allegedly founded by Nauplios, one of the sons of Neptune, Nauplia was of little significance in antiquity. A small Byzantine settlement was situated on the rocky plateau of Akronauplia.