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State of the Paulicians

Author(s) : Makripoulias Christos (1/30/2007)
Translation : Koutras Nikolaos

For citation: Makripoulias Christos, "State of the Paulicians",
Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor
URL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=9146>
Παυλικιανών Κράτος (3/7/2007 v.1) State of the Paulicians (2/15/2007 v.1) 

GLOSSARY
 

domestikos ton scholon
Commander of the regiment of scholae. The first officer with this title appears in 767/8. In the 10th C the domesticos became very powerful among the army of the themata; in mid-10th C the office was divided in two, domestikoi ton scholon of the East and those of the West, commanders in chief of the eastern and the western provinces´ army respectively.

doukas (lat. dux)
Antiquity: Roman military commander who, in some provinces, combined military and civil functions.Buzantium: a higher military officer. From the second half of the 10th c. the title indicates the military comander of a larger district. After the 12th c., doukes were called the governors of small themes.

emir
(from Arabic amir) Emir meaning "commander" or "general", later also "prince". Also a high title of nobility or office in some Turkic historical states.

mandator
An office of the Middle Byzantine period. His role was generally to act as a messenger, while sometimes he held extraordinary functions. It appears as an office around the 9th century. There were ‘basilikoi mandatores’ (=royal messengers), headed by the ‘protomandator’ (=supreme messenger) serving the imperial court, as well as simple ‘mandatores’, i.e. military or civilian officials at the service of the military governor of the logothetes tou dromou. During his public appearances, the emperor was accompanied by a royal protomandator, who brandished a “χρυσέον βεργίν”, that is a golden rod embellished with precious stones. The office of the mandatory was replaced in around the 12th century by that of the tzaousios.

strategos ("general")
During the Roman period his duties were mainly political. Οffice of the Byzantine state´s provincial administration. At first the title was given to the military and political administrator of the themes, namely of the big geographic and administrative unities of the Byzantine empire. Gradually the title lost its power and, already in the 11th century, strategoi were turned to simple commanders of military units, responsible for the defence of a region.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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