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<p><b><i>' ( was a <a href="page.php?w=Byzantine_Empire">Byzantine</a> <a href="page.php?w=Byzantine_aristocracy_and_bureaucracy">court title</a> used in the 10th and 11th centuries.</i></b></p>

<p>The term is etymologically connected to the , the imperial <a href="page.php?w=wardrobe">wardrobe</a>, but despite earlier attempts to connect the  and the related title of , the head of the class of the , with the officials of the , no such relation appears to have existed.</p>

<p>The title is first attested for the reign of Emperor <a href="page.php?w=John_I_Tzimiskes">John I Tzimiskes</a></p><p>
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