Definition of Akritai. Meaning of Akritai. Synonyms of Akritai

- The Akritai (Gr****: ἀκρίται, sg. Akrites, ἀκρίτης) is a term used in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th–11th centuries to denote the frontier soldiers guarding...
- songs, Byzantine folk poems celebrating the lives and exploits of the Akritai, the inhabitants and frontier guards of the empire's eastern Anatolian...
- 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...
- and as a rule were dervishes. After Michael VIII Palaiologos removed the akritai and the land grants through which they survived, many Byzantine renegades...
- probably around the ninth century. The songs celebrated the exploits of the Akritai, the frontier guards defending the eastern borders of the Byzantine Empire...
- Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard Late Komnenian army Pronoia Vestiaritai Palaiologan army...
- heroic songs or ballads celebrating the lives and exploits of the Byzantine Akritai. Written in vernacular medieval Gr****, it is, along with the more famous...
- between Caeserea (Kayseri) and Melitene became a no-man's land, in which the akritai and ghazis fought each other and which is remembered in the epic Digenes...
- Muslim marches were mirrored by the institution of the kleisourai and the akritai (border guards). The term thughūr was also used in the marches of al-Andalus...
- Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard Late Komnenian army Pronoia Vestiaritai Palaiologan army...