catepanate

plural catepanates · alternative catapanate

1. The territory governed by a catepan.

   replaced by the catepanate of Bari

   1964, Paul Lemerle, A history of Byzantium, translated [from French] by Anthony Matthew

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   Besides these there was the independent catepanate of the Mardaites of Attalia, instituted by Tiberius III, and there were probably several independent cleisurarchies (e.g. of Seleucia).

   1889, John Bagnell Bury, A History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (395 A. D. to 800 A. D.), page 350

   a revolt in the catepanate of Italy

   2007, Sigfús Blöndal, Benedict Benedikz, The Varangians of Byzantium, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 103