а.
испоставља се да би име
Тсаконас ипак могло бити и сталешко, крајишко,
чувачко. у периоду од 10. до 15. века могло је означавати некакву војну или обавештајну постају (по Мореји, Македонији и Тракији)
The
tzaousios (Greek: τζαούσιος) was a
late Byzantine military office, whose exact functions and role are somewhat unclear.The term is derived from the Turkish
çavuş, meaning "
courier" or "
messenger" and was in use by the Byzantines perhaps as early as the late
11th century.In the
13th–15th centuries, it became applied to officers serving in provincial posts. A
tzaousios could serve as commander of the garrison of a
kastron (a fortified administrative center run by a
kephale), possibly combining the military and administrative roles, or as an officer to the
megala allagia of the imperial field army. Most of the
tzaousioi mentioned in the sources came from the
Byzantine Morea, where they played an important role in provincial
administration.
In Macedonia and Thrace by contrast, they seem to have been limited to a purely military role within the megala allagia.
б. Милинзи су у 12. и 13. веку ту исту службу обављали за Франке и за Ромеје. Шта више били су ослобођени свих обавеза осим војне.
The
Melingoi or
Milingoi (Greek: Μηλιγγοί) were a Slavic tribe that settled in the Peloponnese in southern Greece during the Middle Ages. In the early decades of the 7th century, Slavic tribes (Sclaveni) settled throughout the Balkans following the collapse of the Byzantine Empire's defense of the Danube frontier with some groups reaching as far south as the Peloponnese. Like the
Ezeritai, the
Melingoi are first mentioned in the
De administrando imperio, a manual on statecraft written by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (r. 945–959). The emperor records that in his time they paid a tribute of 60 gold
nomismata, but that after they had revolted and been defeated, in the reign of Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920–945), by the
strategos Krinites Arotras, they had to pay 600
nomismata.
Under Byzantine rule, the Melingoi retained an autonomous existence, but adopted Christianity and became Hellenized in language and culture.
During the period of Frankish rule in the
13th–14th centuries, they were employed by both the
Frankish lords of the Principality of Achaea and by the
Byzantine Greeks of the Despotate of the Morea as
soldiers. For instance, according to the
Chronicle of the Morea, Prince William II of Villehardouin (r. 1246–1278) awarded to the
"great droungos of the Melingoi" exemption from all duties except military service. The Melingoi are still attested during the 1330s in a number of founder's inscriptions attached to churches in Laconia. One of them, Constantine Spanes, from the notable Spanes family, is called "
tzaousios of the droungos of the Melingoi", implying its continued existence as a separate community. N. Nicoloudis identifies the late medieval
thema of Kinsterna or Giserna (from Latin
cisterna, "cistern") with the area of the Melingoi in the northwestern Mani peninsula.
в. Droungos was originally a Late Roman/Byzantine term for
a battalion-sized military unit, but from the
12th century on had been equated with
zygos ("mountain range") and applied to various mountainous areas in continental Greece,
as well as the militia forces detailed to guard the passes in them (cf. the older term
kleisoura).
In the Byzantine Empire, a
kleisoura (Greek: κλεισούρα, "enclosure, defile") was a term
traditionally applied to a fortified mountain pass and the military district protecting it. By the late
7th century, it came to be applied to more extensive frontier districts, distinct from the larger
themata, chiefly along the Empire's eastern border with the Caliphate along the line of the Taurus-Anti-Taurus mountains (
in the West, only Strymon was in its early days termed a kleisoura).
г. пошто се помиње 1330 поставља се и питање односа овог корпуса (Милинга) са Душаном.