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Preferred term

Gabrás family, 10th-13th cs.  

Entry terms

  • Gavras family

Scope note

  • Referred to in the plural as the Gabrades. The family came from Atra of Argyrople (Upper Chaldia); were powerful military leaders who virtually ruled the Theme (a Byzantine province is called a "theme") of Chaldia; one family member, St. Theodore Gabras, was also "strategus" (military general) of Trebizond and Coloneia .

Notation

  • 231392

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVN-HVSR4RV7-W

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