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Kekaumenos () is the family name of the otherwise unidentified
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author of the '' Strategikon'', a manual on military and household affairs composed c. 1078. He was apparently of Georgian-Armenian origin and the grandson of the '' doux'' of Hellas. Despite relevant suppositions, there exists no concrete evidence that he is the famous 11th century general Katakalon Kekaumenos, or his son. His father-in-law was Nikulitzas Delphinas, a lord of
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who took part in the revolt of Vlachs (
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) in
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in 1066. The 11th-century scholar Kekaumenos wrote of a Vlach homeland situated "near the Danube and  ..nbsp;the Sava, where the Serbians lived more recently". He associated the Vlachs with the Dacians and the Bessi. Kekaumenos referred to the Vlachs as an "unfaithful and undisciplined race". He did this in the archaic style of the time, where he pointed to the Balkan area " Dacia Aureliana" and to
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where the Bessi lived.


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"Byzantine Siege Warfare in Theory and Practice"
by Eric McGeer from ''The Medieval City under Siege''
''Logos Nouthetetikos, or Oration of Admonition to an Emperor''
by William North Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Byzantine writers Medieval Greek military writers 11th-century Byzantine writers Anti-Aromanian sentiment {{Armenia-writer-stub