Marules

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, ''Untersuchungen über die byzantinische Herrschaft in Süditalien vom 9. bis ins 11. Jahrhundert'' (O. Harrassowitz, 1967), p. 94, notes that the rare name Marules is attested from the 10th century.André Guillou, "Production and Profits in the Byzantine Province of Italy (Tenth to Eleventh Centuries): An Expanding Society", ''Dumbarton Oaks Papers'' 28 (1974), p. 108. .William J. Churchill
''The Annales Barenses and the Annales Lupi Protospatharii: Critical Edition and Commentary''
PhD dissertation (University of Toronto, 1979), p. 312. (also spelled Marolos

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''Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile: Tome premier''
(Paris : Alphonse Picard, 1907), pp. 174–176. or MaruliJules Gay
''L'Italie méridionale et l'empire Byzantin''
(New York: Burt Franklin, 1904), p. 526.) was the

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catepan of Italy The Catepanate of Italy (, ''Katepaníkion Italías'') was a province ('' theme'') of the Byzantine Empire, that existed from c. 965 until 1071. It was headed by a governor (''katepano'') with both civil and military powers. At its greatest exten ...

in 1060/1061. Appointed by the Emperor

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, he arrived in

Bari Bari ( ; ; ; ) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia Regions of Italy, region, on the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy. It is the first most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy. It is a port and ...

between 1 September 1060 and 31 August 1061, according to the '' Anonymous Chronicle of Bari''.

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(ed.)
''Rerum Italicarum scriptores'', vol. V.
(Milan, 1724), p. 152: ''Mill. LXI. Ind. XIIII. ... Et Maruli Catapanus vênit in Bari''. He was the first catepan appointed after Argyros left Italy in 1058. He had been preceded in 1060 by a ''merarches'', but the latter's offensive against the

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had peaked before his arrival and he adopted a defensive posture. Marules was succeeded by Sirianus, who arrived in Bari between 1 September 1061 and 31 August 1062.

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