Category: Glossary of Byzantine Terms

tribunus (s.), tribuni (pl.): term for indigenous local rulers in southern Italy, which fell out ...

True Cross: wooden cross on which Christ was crucified, or fragments – relics – supposedly from it.

A Germanic people living in the northern Balkans and Pannonia, who migrated to Italy in the later...

Theotokos ‘god-bearing’ (from theos ‘god’ and tokos ‘bringing forth’): description of the Virgin ...

Thema: A “theme,” from the early 9th century the technical term for the district across which sol...

Illustris: Until the middle of the 6th century the highest grade of senatorial rank.

Turkmen (Turkoman, Turcoman): Turkish nomadic tribesmen from Central Asia who streamed into Anato...