• The Taktikon Uspensky or Uspenskij is the conventional name of a mid-9th century Greek list of the civil, military and ecclesiastical offices of the Byzantine...
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    book about the Trapezuntine Empire also appeared posthumously. The Taktikon Uspensky is named after him. Каптерев С.Н. Bibliographia Uspenskiana. // Византийский...
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  • the Taktikon Uspensky, written c. 842 the Kletorologion of Philotheos, written in 899 the Taktikon Benešević, written in 934–944 the Escorial Taktikon or...
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    smaller frontier themes: while in c. 842 the Taktikon Uspensky lists 18 strategoi, the Escorial Taktikon, written c. 971–975, lists almost 90. Throughout...
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    in antiquated legal texts thereafter. The title re-appears in the Taktikon Uspensky of circa 842 and the later Kletorologion of 899, but the role of its...
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  • 899, he was counted among the judicial officials (kritai). In the Taktikon Uspensky of c. 842, its holders had the lowly court rank of spatharios, and...
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  • sakellarioi are directly mentioned as treasurers. By the time of the Taktikon Uspensky of c. 843, the sakellarios had become a general comptroller of the...
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    offices (Taktika), including the Taktikon Uspensky (c. 842), the Klētorologion of Philotheos (899), and the Escorial Taktikon (c. 975); ii) the various Byzantine...
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    the 8th–11th centuries, according to information provided by the Taktikon Uspensky, the Klētorologion of Philotheos (899) and the writings of Constantine...
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    evidenced by the presence of a strategos of Crete in the contemporary Taktikon Uspensky. However Theoktistos had to abandon the campaign, and the troops left...
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    establishment is unclear; a strategos of Dyrrhachium is attested in the Taktikon Uspensky of c. 842, but several seals of strategoi dating from the previous...
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  • century, the dēmarchos was a government official, as attested in the Taktikon Uspensky and seals of office, holding the dignities such as hypatos or prōtospatharios...
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  • centuries. The office is last attested in 1023. According to the Taktikon Uspensky, the symponos and the logothetes tou praitoriou preceded, rank-wise...
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    Cephallenia are known through sources before that date. Thus, the Taktikon Uspensky of 842/843 clearly mentions a strategos of Cephallenia, and the Latin...
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    its governor is not included in the list of offices known as the Taktikon Uspensky of c. 842. The strategos of Strymon first appears in the 899 Kletorologion...
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    evidenced by the presence of a strategos of Crete in the contemporary Taktikon Uspensky. However Theoktistos had to abandon the campaign, and the troops left...
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    While in ca. 842 the Taktikon Uspensky lists 18 strategoi of themes, the De Thematibus of ca. 940 lists 28, and the Escorial Taktikon, written ca. 971–975...
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    hand, the droungarios of the Imperial Fleet first appears in the Taktikon Uspensky of c. 842/3; and as there is little evidence for major fleets operating...
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  • the reign of Michael III (r. 842–867): the unit is mentioned in the Taktikon Uspensky of 842/843, and the name of one of its commanders, Leo Lalakon, also...
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  • the time of Justinian I (reigned 527–565) on. The mid-9th century Taktikon Uspensky is ambiguous as to its role, placing the office first among the civil...
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    century. Certainly the droungarios of the Fleet first appears in the Taktikon Uspensky of c. 842/43; and as there is little evidence for major fleets operating...
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  • 'sword-bearers'), but they gradually rose to importance: while in the Taktikon Uspensky of c. 842 the domestic of the Excubitors came behind all the thematic...
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  • position of the droungarios tou ploïmou first occurs in the so-called Taktikon Uspensky of circa 842, and the exact date of its establishment is unclear....
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    Nevertheless, an archon of Dalmatia is mentioned in the 842/843 Taktikon Uspensky, and a seal of a "strategos of Dalmatia" dated to the first half of...
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    naval commander: twenty-fifth in the Taktikon Uspensky of 842/843, dropping to fifty-fifth in the Escorial Taktikon of 971–975. Like its other counterparts...
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    "droungarios of the Gulf (Kolpos)", listed in the mid-9th century Taktikon Uspensky. This command then, or at least the eastern part of it, apparently...
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  • Ouranos Tagaris Taginae, Battle of Tagma (military) Tagmatarchis Taktikon Uspensky Tall el-Hammam Tamar of Georgia Tamatarcha Tamkhosrau Tancred, Prince...
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    been created in 843: its governing strategos does not appear in the Taktikon Uspensky of 842/843, which still lists the droungarios, but he is elsewhere...
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     867–886), but Nicolas Oikonomides restored it in the text of the Taktikon Uspensky of c. 843. The title is also found in seals of the 7th and 8th centuries...
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  • chrysoepsētēs attested elsewhere in Philotheos and in the earlier Taktikon Uspensky. The chartoularios in charge of the exartēsis, the imperial naval...
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