The title of ''ek prosopou'' ( el, ), meaning "representative", was widely used in the middle

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(9th–12th centuries) for deputies of various office holders. The title could be applied in a generic sense to any senior official, such as the ''

strategos ''Strategos'', plural ''strategoi'', Linguistic Latinisation, Latinized ''strategus'', ( el, στρατηγός, pl. στρατηγοί; Doric Greek: στραταγός, ''stratagos''; meaning "army leader") is used in Greek language, Greek to ...

'' of a

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, who was in a sense the deputy of the

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. In a more technical sense, as used in the '' Taktika'' or lists of offices of the 9th–11th centuries, it was used by subordinate officials who deputized for a ''strategos'' or other provincial governor or one of the central government ministries for a specific district (called ''ekprosopike'' by

Kekaumenos Kekaumenos ( el, Κεκαυμένος) is the family name of the otherwise unidentified Byzantine author of the '' Strategikon'', a manual on military and household affairs composed c. 1078. He was apparently of Georgian-Armenian origin and the gra ...

). The same usage is also attested in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

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