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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...
- Sacco Troia, site of a 10th-century cathedral, refounded by Byzantine Katepan Basil Boioannes in the early 11th Century. Celle di San Vito and Faeto...
- (sing. katepanikon, from the Byzantine katepanikion), which were ruled by katepans who were subordinated to the dukes. During the reign of Ivan Asen II (1218–41)...
- power was relegated to military leaders, with the various Strategoi, Katepan, Douk, Kephalai or Exarch each acting as viceroys in their respective "thémata"...
- organized directly into katepanakias or kephalatikion each also ruled by a Katepan or Kephale with military and civic powers centered around forts and major...