Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A high official of the Byzantine empire; the governor of a south Italian province under the Greek emperors.
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- noun Alternative form of
catepan .
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Encouraged by these conditions, the Emperor Michael IV sent the catapan Leo Opus (1037) with a fleet, which, after varying fortunes, was forced to retire.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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About the time that Conrad marched into Italy, the Greek emperor Michael Paphla - gon, to fecure the efteem of his fickle fubje&s, refolved to recover Sicily from the Saracens; and, for that purpofe, fent the catapan Michael Maniacus with an army into that AD. 104.0. ifland.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1782
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