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Antiquity and the
Middle Ages. Name
attested from 944 to 1484 AD.
Maurokastron (Μαυρόκαστρον, "Black Castle"), Gr**** name of a Roman/Byzantine fort...
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renamed the city, destro**** by
barbarian invasions, with the new name
Maurokastron, "black fort". Its
government was in the
hands of five archons, a senate...