catapann.
/ˈkatəpan/ The officer who governed Calabria and Apulia under the Byzantine emperors.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Catapan, or Catipan, a Name the later Greeks, about the XIIth Century, gave the Governor of their Dominions in Italy.
1832 J.-C.-L. S. de Sismondi Hist. Ital. Republics i. 24 From time to time..a catapan, or other magistrate, was sent.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vi. ii. 35 He had an interview with Argyrous, the Greek Catapan of Calabria, who promised his succour.
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