The Droungarios of the Watch (Medieval Greek: δρουγγάριος τῆς βίγλης/βίγλας, romanized: droungarios tēs viglēs/viglas), sometimes anglicized as Drungary...
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A droungarios, also spelled drungarios (Greek: δρουγγάριος, Latin: drungarius) and sometimes anglicized as Drungary, was a military rank of the late Roman...
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at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, the former droungarios of the Watch, Simeon, was expelled from the Athonite monastery of Xenophonte...
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Leo Argyros (10th century) (category Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars)
active in the first decades of the 10th century. He was the son of the magistros Eustathios Argyros, droungarios of the Watch under Leo VI the Wise (ruled...
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Constantine Maniakes (category Byzantine people of Armenian descent)
quickly won the confidence of Theophilos and rose in the court hierarchy. By the end of Theophilos's reign, he was droungarios of the Watch. He retained...
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Stephen Lekapenos (category Sons of Byzantine emperors)
appointed Count of the Stable, Kourtikes a patrikios and droungarios of the Watch. On 27 January 945, however, at the urging of their sister, the Augusta Helena...
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Constantine Lekapenos (category Sons of Byzantine emperors)
appointed Count of the Stable, Kourtikes a patrikios and droungarios of the Watch. On 27 January 945, however, at the urging of their sister, the Augusta Helena...
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Dromon Drougoubitai Droungarios Droungarios of the Fleet Droungarios of the Watch Dryinopolis Drypia Duchy of Athens Duchy of the Archipelago Dumbarton...
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Tagma (military) (redirect from Imperial Guard of Constantinople)
introduced the droungarios c. after 902. The largest subdivision of the tagmata was the bandon, commanded by a komēs "count", called skribōn in the Exkoubitores...
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Vigla (tagma) (category Guards units of the Byzantine Empire)
the commander of the Vigla bore the title of droungarios, in English sometimes rendered as "Drungary of the Watch". The first known holder of the office...
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Hagia Sophia (redirect from Church of the Holy Wisdom)
the empress and the court-ladies would watch the proceedings down below. A green stone disc of verd antique marks the spot where the throne of the empress...
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Byzantine North Africa (category Exarchates of the Byzantine Empire)
and at the same time he had to face another uprising of the Tripolitan governor Prudentius initially watched idly. Under these conditions, the Eastern...
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Skleros (category Greek people of Armenian descent)
strategos of Hellas and Niketas possibly as admiral of the imperial fleet (droungarios tou ploimou), while he is also recorded as leading an embassy to the Magyars...
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Byzantine army (category Military history of the Mediterranean)
the title of droungarios. It was replaced with the Cibyrrhaeot Theme in the early 8th century. Within each theme, eligible men were given grants of land...
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Byzantine Empire (redirect from Empire of the Greeks)
John Skylitzes calls the "Iberian Army", which consisted of 50,000 men, and it was turned into a contemporary Drungary of the Watch. Two other knowledgeable...
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derives from the high official known as the Drungary of the Watch. It marked the western end of the Venetian quarter. It is followed by the Gate the Forerunner...
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honorific prefix, as was the norm with other senior offices during this period, like the Drungary of the Watch or the Domestic of the Excubitors. Nevertheless...
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Noumeroi (category Guards units of the Byzantine Empire)
seal of the 7th–8th centuries mentioning a "droungarios tou nou[merou?]" as an indication of a predecessor of the 9th-century unit, and based on the nomenclature...
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execution of members of the Kantakouzenos family in Constantinople in 1477), or carefully watching their activities. Some prominent members of the nobility...
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of the century, soon faced its first serious disaster. In 880, a Byzantine fleet assembled by Emperor Basil I, under the command of the droungarios Nasar...
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Daphni Monastery (category Burial sites of the De la Roche family)
famous of the mosaics: Christ Pantocrator (Lord of the Universe) watching over all from the crown of the dome. He is depicted with a stern face and a threatening...
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Latin Empire (redirect from Latin Empire of the East)
force of 800 soldiers (most of them Cumans) to keep a watch on the Bulgarians and spy out the defences of the Latins. When the Nicaean force reached the village...
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Praefectus urbi (redirect from Eparch of the City)
Constantine. As with the Prefect of Rome, the night watch came under a subordinate prefect, the νυκτέπαρχος (nykteparchos, "night prefect"). In the 530s, however...
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widely known in Western Europe. In Constantinople, people nervously watched the events taking place in Bulgaria. They believed a pro-Roman Bulgaria threatened...
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Turma (category Military units and formations of the Byzantine Empire)
corresponded respectively with the infantry's tesserarius (officer of the watch), optio, and signifer. The exact size of the turma under the Principate, however...
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