demarche

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Justinian’s successors tried to hold on to North Africa, Italy, and Spain by establishing territories called exarchates ruled by governors known as exarchs; exarchates were military provinces in which civilian and military control were united.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Gregory II. saved the city from the attacks of the Lombards, who had seized Ravenna and extinguished the series of Greek exarchs in 751.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

Their jurisdiction was soon reduced to the limits of a narrow province: but Narses himself, the first and most powerful of the exarchs, administered above fifteen years the entire kingdom of Italy.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Milman, Henry Hart

Under the exarchs of Ravenna, Rome was degraded to the second rank.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Milman, Henry Hart

Indeed the ruined facade would seem to belong to a guard house built in the time of the exarchs in the seventh or eighth century.

From Ravenna, a Study by Hutton, Edward