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in the administrative structure of the Byzantine Empire a new type of regional governors was introduced, with extended, both civilian and military powers. Such governors were also called exarchs, and their jurisdictions came to be known as exarchates. Two vast imperial exarchates were thus formed in the western regions of the empire: the Exarchate of Ravenna and the Exarchate of Africa,

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