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    An exarch (/ˈɛksɑːrk/; from Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος exarchos) was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political or military...
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    the 6th and 8th centuries, the territories under the jurisdiction of the exarch of Italy (exarchus Italiae) resident in Ravenna. The term is used in historiography...
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  • John the Exarch (also transcribed Joan Ekzarh; Church Slavonic: Їѡаннъ Єѯархъ Bulgarian: Йоан Екзарх) was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator...
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  • An exarch /ˈɛksɑːrk/ was a military governor within the Byzantine Empire and still is a high prelate in certain Christian churches. Look up exarch in...
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    that encompassed its possessions on the Western Mediterranean. Ruled by an exarch (viceroy), it was established by the Emperor Maurice in 591 and survived...
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  • translit. Olúmpios; died 652) was Exarch of Ravenna from 649 until his death in 652. Prior to his term as exarch, Olympius was an imperial chamberlain...
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  • Theofilactus or Theophylactus; Greek: Θεοφύλακτος, translit. Theophúlaktos) was Exarch of Ravenna from 701 or 702 to 709, succeeding John II Platinus. According...
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  • Eutychius (Greek: Ευτύχιος, translit. Eutúkhios) was the last Exarch of Ravenna, heading the Exarchate from 726 or 727 until 751. The Exarchate of Ravenna...
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  • (Greek: Δέκιος, translit. Dékios) was Exarch of Ravenna from October 584 to 585. He is thought to have been the first exarch of Ravenna, although some believe...
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  • Leo III the Isaurian, serving as the strategos of Sicily, and then as the Exarch of Ravenna from 723 until his death. Paul is first mentioned in 717/18....
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