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Xeros Family
The Xeroi, singular Xeros (), were a Byzantine Greeks, Byzantine family belonging to the Peloponnese, Peloponnesian aristocracy and active between the 10th and 13th centuries.. They were mainly Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy, bureaucrats and judges. One of their distinguishing marks was the depiction of Saint Mark on their seals. A judge named Xeros was a correspondent of the 11th-century scholar and official Michael Psellos. The name Basil was popular with them. Judges of this name are known in the theme (Byzantine province), themes of the Peloponnese (theme), Peloponnese, Hellas (theme), Hellas, the Cibyrrhaeot Theme, Cibyrrhaeots and Anatolic Theme, Anatolikon. In 1057, the John Xeros presided over the trial of two Monastic community of Mount Athos, monasteries on Mount Athos. An Eparch of the City, eparch named Xeros took part in the rebellion of the Anemas against Alexios I Komnenos in 1105. Thereafter, the family declined in importance. Basil Xeros served as an ambassad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byzantine Greeks
The Byzantine Greeks were the Medieval Greek, Greek-speaking Eastern Romans throughout Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. They were the main inhabitants of the lands of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire), of Constantinople and Asia Minor (modern Turkey), the Greek islands, Cyprus, and portions of the southern Balkans, and formed large minorities, or pluralities, in the coastal urban centres of the Levant and northern Egypt. Throughout their history, they self-identified as ''Ῥωμαῖοι, Romans'' (). Latin speakers identified them simply as Greeks or with the term Romaei. Use of Koine Greek, Greek was already widespread in the eastern Roman Empire when Constantine I () moved its capital to Constantinople, while Anatolia had also been Hellenization, hellenized by early Byzantine times. The empire lost its diversity following the loss of non-Greek speaking provinces with the 7th century Early Muslim conquests, Muslim conquests and its population was overwhelmingly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
