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The term basilikoi anthropoi (Greek: βασιλικοί ἄνθρωποι, "the imperial men") appears in Byzantine documents of the 9th–10th centuries and has two distinct meanings:[1]
The latter group included holders of minor dignities like stratores and spatharokandidatoi and was headed by the protospatharios of the basilikoi anthropoi, later (in the De Ceremoniis and the Escorial Taktikon) also called the katepano of the basilikoi.[1] He was aided by a domestikos and his staff included "kandidatoi of the Hippodrome", basilikoi mandatores and spatharioi, the latter of whom sometimes appear to participate in military actions, which led Nicolas Oikonomides to suggest that the basilikoi anthropoi may have formed a distinct military unit.[1] Several of the lower ranks of this corps seem to have been foreigners, including Khazars, Arabs, Franks etc.[1]
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