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- The katepánō (Gr****: κατεπάνω; lit. '[the one] placed at the top', or lit. 'the topmost') was a senior Byzantine military rank and office. The word was...
- 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')...
- κατεπανίκιον) was a Byzantine term for an area under the control of a katepano. It was used to describe two different types of administrative divisions:...
- 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...
- 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...
- (United Kingdom) Captain (United States) Senior captain Staff captain Katepano Rittmeister Non-Commonwealth air forces using an air force-specific rank...
- governor) of Bari was raised to the title of katepanō of Italy, usually with the rank of patrikios. The title of katepanō meant "the uppermost" in Gr****. This...
- Apulian rebels enlisted the support of the Normans and defeated the new katepano of Italy at Cannae in 1041, Matera fell within the scope of Norman incursions...
- revolt of Philaretos Brachamios, though without success. Years later, as Katepano of Adrianople (now Edirne), he initially confronted the revolt of Nikephoros...
- Basil II installed David Arianites as strategos autokrator of Skopje and katepano of conquered Bulgaria, implying powers of command over the other regional...