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
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