 Wherever William met no resistance, he recognized the rights of the Greeks to their lands, customs, and privileges.The conquerors met their first serious obstacle in Arcadia, at the fortress of Kyparissia, which they were not prepared to take.The crusaders continued to Modon (now Methoni, Greece), but the natives of Nikli, Veligosti, and Sparta, together with some of the Melingoi Slavs of Mount Taygetus and the mountaineers of Maina, formed an army in order to oppose their advance.