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Akova
Akova was a castle in the mountains of Arcadia in the central Peloponnese, which the French called Matagrifon. Around 1209 it became the seat of one of the twelve baronies of the crusader Principality of Achaea, granted to Walter of Rosières. A disputed inheritance of the barony in the 1270s became a famous case of feudal law, and in 1320 the Byzantine commander Andronikos Asen captured the castle.
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