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Cateran vs Catepan - What's the difference?

cateran | catepan |

In historical terms the difference between cateran and catepan

is that cateran is a Highlander working as a professional fighter; a mercenary attached to a Scottish clan while catepan is the governor of the Catepanate of Italy, a Byzantine province.

cateran

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) A Highlander working as a professional fighter; a mercenary attached to a Scottish clan.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
  • *:And the great-grandson of Cospatric, he joined the English against the cateran Wallace […].
  • * 2009 , , Glencoe , Amberley 2009, p. 41:
    • They found the hire of lawyers more cost-effective than the maintenance of caterans .
  • A freebooter, marauder.

    • catepan

    English

    (wikipedia catepan)

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) the governor of the , a Byzantine province