strategos

(noun)

A military governor in the Byzantine Empire.

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Examples of strategos in the following topics:

  • The Emperor Irene

    • Although she was an orphan, her uncle or cousin Constantine Sarantapechos was a patrician and was possibly the strategos of the theme of Hellas at the end of the 8th century.
    • Irene next had to subdue a rebellion led by Elpidius, the strategos of Sicily.
    • The strategos of the Bucellarian Theme, Tatzates, defected to the Abbasids, and Irene had to agree to pay an annual tribute of 70,000 or 90,000 dinars to the Abbasids for a three-year truce, to give them 10,000 silk garments, and to provide them with guides, provisions, and access to markets during their withdrawal.
  • The Theme System

    • This process, resulting in unified control over both military and civil affairs of each theme by its strategos, was complete by the mid-9th century, and is the "classical" thematic model.
    • The soldiers were still technically a military unit, under the command of a strategos, and they did not own the land they worked as it was still controlled by the state.
  • Athens

    • Only two magistrates were directly elected by the Popular Assembly: strategos (or generals), and magistrates of finance.
  • The Isaurian Dynasty

    • After being raised to spatharios by Justinian II, he fought the Arabs in Abasgia, and was appointed as strategos of the Anatolics by Anastasios II.
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