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catapan|ˈkætəpæn|
[ad. med.L. catapan-us, cate-, cati-; in F. catapan; according to Littré, f. Gr. κατεπάνω τῶν ἀξιωµάτων (he who is) placed over the dignities.]
The officer who governed Calabria and Apulia under the Byzantine emperors.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Catapan or Catipan, a name the later Greeks, about the twelfth century, gave the governor of their dominions in Italy. 1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. i. 24 From time to time..a catapan, or other magistrate, was sent. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) III. vi. ii. 428 The Greek Argyrous the last catapan, the ally of Leo IX. had retired in despair. |
