catepanate

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English

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Etymology

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From catepan +‎ -ate.

Noun

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catepanate (plural catepanates)

  1. The territory governed by a catepan.
    • 1889, John Bagnell Bury, A History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (395 A. D. to 800 A. D.), page 350:
      Besides these there was the independent catepanate of the Mardaites of Attalia, instituted by Tiberius III, and there were probably several independent cleisurarchies (e.g. of Seleucia).
    • 1964, Paul Lemerle, A history of Byzantium, translated [from French] by Anthony Matthew:
      replaced by the catepanate of Bari
    • 2007, Sigfús Blöndal, Benedict Benedikz, The Varangians of Byzantium, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 103:
      a revolt in the catepanate of Italy