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catepan

Byzantine administrator

Also known as: catapano

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history of Italy

In Italy: The south, 774–1000
…through a local ruler, or catepan, who headed an administrative and fiscal system that was apparently more complex and stable than that of the exarchs had been. Culturally, the Byzantines were by now entirely Greek, and southern Calabria was, as already noted, Greek-speaking; in Puglia, however, the Italian-speaking Lombards dominated,…
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