Category: Glossary of Byzantine Terms

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Circus factions: associations that staged circus games; fervent supporters’ associations of one o...
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Psychika: Gifts made to monasteries in exchange for the monks’ commemoration of the donors and/or...
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A type of annuity administered by monasteries which provided (elderly) laity with a regular allot...
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Sallarid: 10th.- to 11th.-century Muslim dynasty which ruled in the eastern Caucasus and north-we...
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Kapnikon: Tax on “hearths” or households, introduced probably during the later 7th or 8th century.
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Gastald: Lombard royal official in Italy in charge of a gastaldate, with civil and military power...
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Dioiketes: Fiscal administrator responsible for the land-tax, usually in a single diocese, from t...
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Genikon Logothesion: The general treasury and main fiscal department of government after the seve...
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Diocese: Lat. dioecesa, Gk. Dioikêsis, an administrative unit consisting of several provinces; fr...
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Turkic-speaking nomadic warriors who appeared in the north Black Sea steppe in the sixth century,...
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Chrysotriklinos: ‘golden hall’, from ‘gold’ (chrysos) and ‘hall’ (triklinos): large reception hal...
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Aktemon: A peasant with no property, no oxen or plough.
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Armeniakoi: one of the earliest themes; based in northern Anatolia with headquarters at Euchaita.
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Egyptian population who spoke the Coptic language; after Egypt’s mid-seventh-century conquest by ...
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Confederation of Turkicspeaking peoples who dominated the Black Sea steppes from the glossary mid...
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Boukellarioi: theme formed in the later eighth century in north-west Asia Minor, taking its name ...
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Berbers: name given to several ethnic groups indigenous to north-west Africa; known in Arab sourc...
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Bailo (s.), Baili (pl.): general term for administrator; head of the Venetian colony in Constanti...
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Confraternity: A group of laymen, clerics, and monks linked to monasteries and formed to honor pa...
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Greek fire: Devastating and dreaded Byzantine petroleum-based weapon; it was sticky, was ignited ...
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