- 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...
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probably around the
ninth century. The
songs celebrated the
exploits of the
Akritai, the
frontier guards defending the
eastern borders of the
Byzantine Empire...
- and as a rule were dervishes.
After Michael VIII
Palaiologos removed the
akritai and the land
grants through which they survived, many
Byzantine renegades...
-
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...
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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...
- Thrace. It
often denoted Byzantine frontier warfare leaders,
commanders of
akritai, but also
Byzantine princes and
emperors themselves", e.g. in the case...
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Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the
Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard Late
Komnenian army
Pronoia Vestiaritai Palaiologan army...
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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...
