Angelókastro

Angelokastron stands in the country of the lower Acheloos, where a castle guarded the surrounding plain. In the later Middle Ages it was a centre of the Albanian Spata lords, whose territories stretched across Aetolia and Acarnania. Their struggle with Carlo Tocco, ruler of the Ionian islands, brought repeated attacks to the district. Tocco eventually took Angelokastron, and it remained in his family's hands until the Ottomans captured it in the fifteenth century.