- 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...
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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...
- was the
Catapan of
Italy from May to
September 1017. He was
originally the
strategos of Cephallenia. As strategos, he
accompanied the
catapan Basil Mesardonites...
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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...
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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...
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Mesardonites was the
Catapan of Italy,
representing the
Byzantine Emperor there, from 1010 to 1016 or 1017. He
succeeded the
catapan John Kourkouas, who...
- nus]), in
Italian called Bugiano (Italian: [buˈdʒaːno]), was the
Byzantine catapan of
Italy (1017 – 1027) and one of the
greatest Byzantine generals of his...
- Leo P****ianos (died 22 June 1017) was the
Byzantine general sent by the
Catapan of
Italy Leo
Tornikios ****eon to
fight the
Lombard rebel Melus of Bari...
- 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...
- the
inadequate distribution of
Saracen loot.
After the ********ination of
Catapan Nikephoros Dokeianos at
Ascoli in 1040 the
Normans elected Atenulf, brother...
