- The katepánō (Gr****: κατεπάνω, lit. '[the one]
placed at the top' or 'the topmost') was a
senior Byzantine military rank and office. The word was Latinized...
-
Byzantine Empire), but the
gains were "reversed by misfortune". The
title Catapan of
Apulia and
Campania was
revived briefly in 1166 for Gilbert,
Count of...
-
first to
crush the
Macedonian revolt of Leo Tornicius,
himself the
former catapan of
Iberia (1047), and
later to halt the
Pecheneg advance. In 1048–9, the...
- nus]), in
Italian called Bugiano (Italian: [buˈdʒaːno]), was the
Byzantine catapan of
Italy (1017 – 1027) and one of the
greatest Byzantine generals of his...
- of the
Byzantine Empire.
Constantine calls the
Sicilian invasion off.
Catapan Basil Boioannes diverts the
Byzantine expeditionary force already ****embled...
- Cannae,
twelve centuries after the more
famous one (1018). The
Byzantine catapan,
Basilios Bojoannes,
successfully drove off the
invading Lombard and Norman...
-
quickly took Bari itself. In 1010, they took
Ascoli and Troia, but the new
catapan,
Basil Mesardonites,
gathered a
large army, and on 11 June 1011 Bari fell...
- Italo-Norman
domination of Apulia, the area
previously occupied by the
Byzantine Catapan of
which Bari was the seat. Its
foundation is
related to the
recovery of...
- Sawadān as well." In 885, Bari
became the
residence of the
local Byzantine catapan, or governor. The
failed revolt (1009–1011) of the
Lombard nobles Melus...
- the
inadequate distribution of
Saracen loot.
After the ********ination of
Catapan Nikephoros Dokeianos at
Ascoli in 1040 the
Normans elected Atenulf, brother...
