Lexicographical Neighbors of Catapans
Literary usage of Catapans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Italian Republics: Being a View of the Rise, Progress, and by Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi (1847)
"... was disturbed only by the petty wars between the Lombard principalities, the
republics under the protection of the Greek empire, the catapans of Bari, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Sicily in the hands of the Mussulmans, the Theme of Lombardy abandoned to the
weak suzerainty of the Greek catapans ..."
3. Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham (1908)
"8vo, New York, 1883. Schlumberger, O. Les Principautés franques du Levant.
8vo, Paris, 1877. Sigillographie byzantine...des ducs et catapans de Chypre. ..."
4. The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest by Esther Singleton (1916)
"... whose catapans, or governors, were struggling to recover Sicily from the
Saracens; but irritated at the mean rewards they received for hard fighting, ..."
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