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The castle was built already in Byzantine times, and was of strategic importance as it lay at the mouth of the mountain pass (droungos) leading from the coastal plains of Elis to Skorta and the interior of the peninsula. The origin of the Greek name is unclear, including proposals that it means "mountain cage", or linking it with Herakles, although no sanctuary of his is known to have existed in the area. Similarly, the Western name in its various forms (Bucel[l]et, Bucello, Polcellecto, Porcelle, Bucel[l]etto) is of unclear origin.

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  • Araklovon Castle
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  • The castle was built already in Byzantine times, and was of strategic importance as it lay at the mouth of the mountain pass (droungos) leading from the coastal plains of Elis to Skorta and the interior of the peninsula. The origin of the Greek name is unclear, including proposals that it means "mountain cage", or linking it with Herakles, although no sanctuary of his is known to have existed in the area. Similarly, the Western name in its various forms (Bucel[l]et, Bucello, Polcellecto, Porcelle, Bucel[l]etto) is of unclear origin.
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  • The castle was built already in Byzantine times, and was of strategic importance as it lay at the mouth of the mountain pass (droungos) leading from the coastal plains of Elis to Skorta and the interior of the peninsula. The origin of the Greek name is unclear, including proposals that it means "mountain cage", or linking it with Herakles, although no sanctuary of his is known to have existed in the area. Similarly, the Western name in its various forms (Bucel[l]et, Bucello, Polcellecto, Porcelle, Bucel[l]etto) is of unclear origin. At the time of the arrival of the Crusaders under William of Champlitte and Geoffrey of Villehardouin and the onset of their conquest of the Peloponnese in 1205, it was held by Doxapatres Boutsaras. The Crusaders tried to storm the castle, but it held out. The Aragonese version of the Chronicle of the Morea records that the Crusaders left part of their forces to lay a siege, or rather an on-and-off blockade, on the castle, which may have lasted as late as 1210. The castle is not mentioned thereafter until the revolt of the inhabitants of Skorta in 1264, and again in the late 1270s, when Geoffrey of Briel the Younger, in an effort to claim some of the inheritance of his uncle, Geoffrey of Briel, seized the castle by a ruse. He then called upon the Byzantine Greeks of Mystras for aid, but they were stopped by the Frankish baron of Karytaina. The castle thereafter followed the fortunes of the wider Barony of Karytaina, reverting to the princely domain in the early 14th century. In 1391, it is recorded that the settlement near the castle numbered 100 hearths. During the Ottoman–Venetian War of 1463–1479, it was captured by the Venetians in 1463 but was recovered by the Ottomans in 1467.
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