catepanate

English

Etymology

catepan +‎ -ate

Noun

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