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Approximate territorial extent of the Catapanate of Italy during the early 11th century. Modern city names (in English) are provided alongside the medieval Greek names.
Approximate territorial extent of the Catapanate of Italy during the early 11th century. Modern city names (in English) are provided alongside the medieval Greek names.

The Catepanate (or Catapanate) of Italy (Greek: κατεπανίκιον Ἰταλίας) was a province of the Byzantine Empire, comprising mainland Italy south of a line drawn from Monte Gargano to the Gulf of Salerno. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Monte Gargano is a mountain in Apulia, Italy forming the backbone of the peninsula Promontorio del Gargano on the Adriatic Sea. The Gulf of Salerno is a gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the coast of the province of Salerno in south-western Italy. Amalfi and Naples, although north of that line, maintained allegiance to Constantinople through the catepan. Amalfi is also a town in the Antioquia Departament in Colombia. Naples ( Napoli, Neapolitan: Nàpule) is a historic City in southern Italy, the Capital of the Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis, or gr ἡ Πόλις hē Polis, Latin: la CONSTANTINOPOLIS

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In 876, the Byzantines retook Bari from the Saracens. Events Births Deaths Louis the German, King of East Francia Map-bms876 Simple876 Bari ( Barium in Latin, Bàrion or Vàrion in Greek, Bare in Neapolitan Saracen was a term used by Europeans in the Middle Ages for Fatimids at first then later for all who professed the religion of Islam. They established the theme of Langobardia Minor by means of officers entitled first strategoi: one in Calabria and one in Apulia. Langobardia was the name of the Byzantine Thema which covered the Southern Italy from 874 to the Eleventh century. For the board game see Stratego. "Strategus" redirects here Calabria ( Latin: Brutium) is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of Apulia ( Italian: Puglia) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east the Ionian Sea The latter had its capital at Bari. In 999, the stratēgos of Bari was raised to the title of Catapan, or Patrician, of Italy. For the emergency number see 999 (emergency telephone number. The Byzantine Empire had a complex system of Aristocracy and Bureaucracy, which was inherited from the Roman Empire. The term " patrician " originally referred to a group of elite families in Ancient Rome, including both their natural and The title of katepanō meant "the uppermost" in the Greek language. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly

Some Norman adventurers, on pilgrimage to Monte Sant'Angelo sul Gargano, lent their swords in 1017 to the Lombard cities of Apulia against the Byzantines. The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France. The Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo sul Gargano, sometimes called simply Monte Gargano, is the oldest shrine in Western Europe dedicated to the archangel Michael The Lombards ( Latin Langobardi, whence the alternative names Langobards and Longobards) were a Germanic people originally from Apulia ( Italian: Puglia) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east the Ionian Sea From 1016 to 1030 the Normans were pure mercenaries, serving either Byzantines or Lombards, and then Sergius IV of Naples, by installing the leader Ranulf Drengot in the fortress of Aversa in 1030, gave them their first pied-à-terre and they began an organized conquest of the land. Sergius IV (died after 1036 was Duke of Naples from 1002 to 1036 Rainulf Drengot (also Ranulph Ranulf or Rannulf was a Norman adventurer and the first count of Aversa ( 1030 &ndash 1045) In 1030 there arrived William and Drogo, the two eldest sons of Tancred of Hauteville, a petty noble of Coutances in Normandy. Tancred of Hauteville was an eleventh-century Norman petty lord about whom little is known Coutances is a commune of Normandy, France, in the Manche département, of which it is a Sous-préfecture Normandy (Normandie Norman: Normaundie) is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. The two joined in the organized attempt to wrest Apulia from the Byzantines, who by 1040 had lost most of that province. Bari was reduced (April 1071) and the Byzantines finally ousted from southern Italy. They returned briefly to besiege Bari in 1156.

The title Catapan of Apulia and Campania was revived briefly in 1166 for Gilbert, Count of Gravina, the cousin of the queen regent Margaret of Navarre. Gilbert, Count of Gravina from 1159 was a cousin of Margaret of Navarre, the queen of Sicily. In 1167, with his authority as catapan, Gilbert forced German troops out of the Campania and compelled Frederick Barbarossa to raise the siege of Ancona. Campania is a region of Southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5 Frederick I Barbarossa (1122 &ndash 10 June 1190) was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned Ancona (Ankon is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of central Italy, population 101909 (2005

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The Exarchate of Ravenna or of Italy was a centre of Byzantine power in Italy, from the end of the 6th century to 751, when the The Exarchate of Africa or of Carthage, after its capital was the name of an administrative division of the Eastern Roman Empire encompassing its possessions The Normans were the people who gave their names to Normandy, a region in northern France.
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