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and was replaced by Bardas Platypodes. Under Platypodes, strife in the Peloponnese resumed as he quarrelled with the local nobility, while another revolt by Slavic troops in the Peloponnese followed soon after, which the Melingoi and Ezeritai exploited in getting their tribute reduced to the previous
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of the Peloponnese Krenites" are known and probably belong to him. He has also been identified by some with a person of the same name, mentioned in the hagiography of
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Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor
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who are hesitant to accept them. Nevertheless, in early 921 or 922 (earlier scholars dated this event to
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until November. The two tribes submitted again, and were condemned to pay an increased tribute of 600
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The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium
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family, an aristocratic clan present in Byzantium since the early 9th century.
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The two tribes had rebelled in the past, in 840–42, and after their defeat by
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The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050: The Early Middle Ages
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and tasked with suppressing the revolt of the Slavic tribes of the
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of the Peloponnese. Most scholars, however, believe the two to be
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are questionable, and have been criticized by historians such as
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Margins and Metropolis: Authority across the Byzantine Empire
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had been obliged to pay an annual tribute of 60 and 300 gold
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origin, however his methods of identifying Armenians in the
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Index

Krinites Arotras
Greek
Byzantine
Greece
Slavic
Peloponnese
Krenites
Peter Charanis
Armenian
Byzantine Empire
Anthony Kaldellis
protospatharios
strategos
theme
Peloponnese
Melingoi
Ezeritai
Theoktistos Bryennios
solidi
John Proteuon
archons
Lombard
Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos
De administrando imperio
Mount Taygetos
Hellas
protospatharios
Saint Luke of Steiris
separate persons
Steven Runciman

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