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Whilst I can find information on what they WERE, its obvious that with over a thousand years of history, the useage of titles, and the incidence of them changed over time. Articles which treat the "Byzantine Navy" as a homogenous artefact which didn't change and evolve in its structure seem to rather miss the point.

If we look at 1204 on the one hand, and 1400 on the other, were the developments in military rank, both naval and army, obvious ones, or did the whole dislocation to tradition that 1204 represented change things in ways that would not have happened by natural progression ?

If we assume that the Byzantine Empire continued into early modern times, would the terminology of rank and offices have changed much, or evolved further ?

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Grey Wolf
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