• The allelengyon (Greek: ἀλληλέγγυον) was a tax established in 1002 by the Byzantine Emperor Basil II, requiring the wealthiest landowners to pay the tax...
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    the legal owners could reclaim it. In 1002, Basil also introduced the allelengyon tax as a specific law obliging the dynatoi (wealthy landholders) to cover...
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  • particular showed care to check the dynatoi through the imposition of the allelengyon ("mutual guarantee") tax, making them liable to pay the taxes of their...
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    against the constant abuses and evasions of the dynatoi by imposing the allelengyon or through the different establishment of humanitarian and monastic institutions...
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    like Basil II had fought and delayed with special taxes such as the allelengyon. Becoming one of several towns within the estates of the different institutions...
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  • al-Armani Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Umar Alice-Mary Talbot Aligern Allagion Allelengyon Allīnūs Aloara Alp Arslan Altava Althias Alusian of Bulgaria Alviso Diedo...
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