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Eunuch: Castrated male who could occupy any position in the imperial system; some offi ces were r...

Egyptian population who spoke the Coptic language; after Egypt’s mid-seventh-century conquest by ...

Dioiketes: Fiscal administrator responsible for the land-tax, usually in a single diocese, from t...

Chrysotriklinos: ‘golden hall’, from ‘gold’ (chrysos) and ‘hall’ (triklinos): large reception hal...

Khazars: Turkic-speaking people who were the major power in the Black Sea steppes, with centres o...

Davidic of or pertaining to David, king of Israel, or to his family

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

Genikon(sekreton): The general treasury and main fiscal department of government after the 7th ce...

Stratiotes: A soldier; by derivation from the 10th century a holder of “military” land, subject t...

Circus factions: associations that staged circus games; fervent supporters’ associations of one o...

Uzes:A branch of the Oghuz confederation of Turkic-speaking peoples; ousted the Pechenegs from th...

Sasanians: Persian ruling dynasty which overthrew the Parthian Arsacid dynasty in the early third...

Ecloga: “Selections” from Roman law, interpreted in the light of its own time and codifi ed as a ...

Despotes: High imperial title in the later Byzantine period, generally reserved for members of th...

Franks: A Germanic grouping from the lower Rhine, frequently recruited into the Roman army; unite...

Ostrogoths: (eastern Goths) groupings of Goths, who adopted Arian Christianity and conquered Ital...

Ducat: Two types of coin from the duchy of Venice: (1) the thirteenthand early fourteenth-century...

Bailo (s.), Baili (pl.): general term for administrator; head of the Venetian colony in Constanti...