Definition of Akritai. Meaning of Akritai. Synonyms of Akritai

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Akritai. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Akritai and, of course, Akritai synonyms and on the right images related to the word Akritai.

Definition of Akritai

No result for Akritai. Showing similar results...

Meaning of Akritai from wikipedia

- The Akritai (Gr****: ἀκρίται, singular: Akritēs, ἀκρίτης) is a term used in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th–11th centuries to denote the frontier soldiers...
- and as a rule were dervishes. After Michael VIII Palaiologos removed the akritai and the land grants through which they survived, many Byzantine renegades...
- Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard Late Komnenian army Pronoia Vestiaritai Palaiologan army...
- songs; Byzantine folk poems celebrating the lives and exploits of the Akritai, the inhabitants and frontier guards of the empire's eastern Anatolian...
- Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard Late Komnenian army Pronoia Vestiaritai Palaiologan army...
- Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard Late Komnenian army Pronoia Vestiaritai Palaiologan army...
- Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard Late Komnenian army Pronoia Vestiaritai Palaiologan army...
- al-Sham". Mardaite revolts Leo of Tripoli Staurakios Platys Marada Movement Akritai Hitti, Philip (1957). Lebanon in History. India: Macmillan and Co Ltd....
- Cappadocian Gr**** military aristocracy, Romanos rose to fame as a successful Akritai commander, serving in Syria and on the Danubian frontier. In 1068, he was...
- probably around the ninth century. The songs celebrated the exploits of the Akritai, the frontier guards defending the eastern borders of the Byzantine Empire...