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(sing. ἀκρίτης, from akron/akra, “summit, extremity”), term found in Byz. military treatises of the 10th and 11th C. denoting people stationed at the extremity of a given position, such as ...
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500).
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