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Tax information about Thessaly derived from documents of 13th and 14th centuries

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• Κοντογιαννοπούλου, Αναστασία

13th and 14th centuries were a period of important political changes for Thessaly, which came under the authority of different sovereigns. The sovereigns of Thessaly preserved the mechanism of administration and economy of the Byzantine state but they also introduced new institutions. This study deals with taxation and most particularly with taxes imposed in Thessaly in the 13th and 14th centuries, especially those who had local character or foreign origin. First of all we mention oinarike and gennematike dosis, which were demands of wine and cereals respectively and must have had a local character. The apaitesis nomithrou or nomisthron or nomistron was a surcharge for the use of pasturage. The dosis exotypon must concern an extraordinary tax burden. Some tax obligations, which came from foreign tax systems, are of great interest. First of all we mention prebenda, which appears in the fragmentary chrysobull of the despot of Epiros Nicephore II Orsini, dated in 1356-1358 and issued in favor of the monastery of Lycousada in Fanarion (Karditsa). Different opinions have been formulated about this obligation. According to us prebenda may be connected with the homonymous institution of the latin Church. Prebenda was designating the income derived from ecclesiastical resources exploited by high-ranking officials of the latin Church, such as «canonicoi» or by tenants of those resources. Prebenda appears in the Byzantine area in the years of latin occupation and it had a lay character too. It probably represents the tax obligation which derived from the exploitation of land property ecclesiastical and secular. Prebenda was a local tax obligation imposed in Epiros and Thessaly in the years of their domination by the Orsini family. Pozobitzi was imposed in Thessaly in the years of Serbian occupation. It was the obligation to supply forage for the horses of the sovereign and his dignitaries. Preselitza was a Serbian tax obligation for the subsistence of soldiers.

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