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

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

Codex Justinianus: Codification of Roman law produced at the beginning of the reign of Justinian ...

Turmarch: commander of a tourma; senior military commander with fiscal and judicial responsibilit...

Diocese: Lat. dioecesa, Gk. Dioikêsis, an administrative unit consisting of several provinces; fr...

Vlachs: Romance-language-speaking pastoral inhabitants of eastern and south-eastern Europe, desce...

Charistikiarios: A person or institution that was granted administrative responsibilities over a ...

The name of several officials, the most important being the eparch of the City, the civil governo...

Christian sacrament in which the body and the blood of Christ are conveyed to believers in the fo...

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

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

Alloy containing silver and gold in a Byzantine coin.

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

Rus: People of Scandinavian origin who formed a political structure in eastern Europe, between th...

Pronouncements on Christ’s nature of Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria, endorsed by the council of Ch...

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

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

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

Doux: Originally in the later Roman period a commander of a military unit; commander of a unit of...