Definition of Catapan

1. the governor of Calabria and Apulia [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catapan

catamenial pneumothorax
catamites
catamitism
catamnesis
catamnestic
catamorphism
catamorphisms
catamount
catamountain
catamounts
catanadromous
catananche
catanionic
catapan (current term)
catapans
catapasm
catapasms
catapeltic
catapetalous
cataphasia
cataphatic
cataphatically
cataphatism
cataphile
cataphiles
cataphonic
cataphonics
cataphor

Literary usage of Catapan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Roger of Sicily and the Normans in Lower Italy, 1016-1154 by Edmund Curtis (1912)
"The catapan Eustathius wishing to reward the fidelity of the Judex ... Finally the catapan concedes to him that his new subjects should be governed by him ..."

2. An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton (1761)
"... fent any catapan into the ifland Caprea and the two ... Towards . was very different; the Greek the north it comprehended the catapan was a ..."

3. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"1017. Apulia and Calabria were then subject to the Greeke puha. Empire, which rather tyrannizing then ruling, by the catapan or ..."

4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... the catapan, in the three first battels winning much, which in the fourth at that fatall place of Canna hee lost againe : the ..."

5. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1854)
"It was carried at first to the palace of the catapan,4 and there deposited, with great reverence, at the request of the mariners and all the citizens in the ..."

6. British Cyprus by William Hepworth Dixon (1879)
"When we first touched at Limasol, we came in peace, engaged in Christian duty, and expecting to be treated by the catapan like servants of the Cross. ..."

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