- 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...
- for
persons in
similar commanding roles. The term "captain"
derives from
katepánō (Ancient Gr****: κατεπάνω, lit. '[the one]
placed at the top', or 'the topmost')...
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Emperor John
Tzimiskes (969–976). The seal
belonged to
protospatharios and
katepano of Ras
named John.
After 976, the
region was
dominated by the restored...
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general (strategos). In the late 10th and
early 11th centuries, a doux or
katepano was in
charge of
large cir****scriptions
consisting of
several smaller themata...
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Emperor Constantine X
Doukas (r. 1059–1067), his
brother John Doukas,
katepano and
later Caesar,
Romanos IV
Diogenes (r. 1068–1071), Constantine's son...
- (Gr****: Σταυράκιος ὁ Πλατύς) was a
Byzantine officer who
served as the
katepano of the
Mardaites in the
Cibyrrhaeot Theme in ca. 910.
Staurakios Platys...
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large regional commands ("ducates" or "catepanates"),
under a doux or
katepano, were set up. In the East, the
three original such commands, set up by...
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surviving lead seal of
office gives his
titles as "protospatharios and
katepano [catepan] of Italy".
According to
Lupus Protospatharius, he
arrived at...
- Seal of John Kastamonites,
vestes and
katepano of Mesopotamia...
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family members are
known as
military officers, such as
Demetrios Katakalon,
katepano of Paradounavon, or the
general and
military author Katakalon Kekaumenos...
