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{{Short description|Byzantine author (11th century)}}
'''Kekaumenos''' ({{langx|el|Κεκαυμένος}}) is the family name of the otherwise unidentified [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] author of the ''[[Strategikon of Kekaumenos|Strategikon]]'', a [[Byzantine military manuals|manual on military and household affairs]] composed c. 1078. He was apparently of Georgian-Armenian origin<ref>The Oxford History of Byzantium By Cyril A. Mango, Oxford University Press, 2002, p.11</ref> and the grandson of the ''[[dux|doux]]'' of [[Hellas (theme)|Hellas]]. Despite relevant suppositions, there exists no concrete evidence that he is the famous 11th century general [[Katakalon Kekaumenos]], or his son.

His father-in-law was [[Nikulitzas Delphinas]], a lord of [[Larissa]] who took part in the revolt of [[Vlach]]s ([[Aromanians]]) in [[Thessaly]] in 1066.<ref>{{Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250|page=}}</ref> The 11th-century scholar Kekaumenos wrote of a Vlach homeland situated "near the Danube and&nbsp;[...]&nbsp;the Sava, where the Serbians lived more recently".<ref>''Cecaumeno: Consejos de un aristócrata bizantino'' (12.4.2), p. 122.</ref><ref>Alexandru Madgearu|Originea medievală a focarelor de conflict din Peninsula Balcanică
(The wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their medieval origins) https://biblioteca-digitala.ro/?pub=1124-originea-medievala-a-focarelor-de-conflict-din-peninsula-balcanica | pp=52</ref> He associated the Vlachs with the Dacians and the [[Bessi]]. Kekaumenos referred to the Vlachs as an "unfaithful and undisciplined race".<ref>Alexandru Madgearu|Originea medievală a focarelor de conflict din Peninsula Balcanică
(The wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their medieval origins) https://biblioteca-digitala.ro/?pub=1124-originea-medievala-a-focarelor-de-conflict-din-peninsula-balcanica | pp=52</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.protothema.gr/stories/article/764584/oi-vlahoi-i-katagogi-i-glossa-kai-i-makraioni-istoria-tous-/|title=Οι Βλάχοι: Η καταγωγή, η γλώσσα, και η μακραίωνη ιστορία τους|first=Michalis|last=Stoukas|newspaper=[[Proto Thema]]|date=25 February 2018|language=el}}</ref><ref>[https://faretra.info/2022/06/01/o-livelos-tou-kekavmenou-kata-ton-vlachon-mia-apantisi-tou-giorgi-exarchou/ "Ο λίβελος του Κεκαυμένου κατά των Βλάχων..." / Μια απάντηση του Γιώργη Έξαρχου].</ref> He did this in the archaic style of the time, where he pointed to the Balkan area "[[Dacia Aureliana]]" and to [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] where the [[Bessi]] lived.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Miskolczy |first=Ambrus |url=https://mki.gov.hu/assets/pdf/MKI_034_Roman_kozepkor_B5_web.pdf#joomlaImage://local-assets/pdf/MKI_034_Roman_kozepkor_B5_web.pdf?width=0&height=0 |title=A román középkor időszerű kérdései ( Régi-új viták és közelítések ) |publisher=A Magyarságkutató Intézet |year=2021 |isbn= |location=Budapest |pages=95 |language=Hungarian}}</ref>

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==Sources==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040726002032/http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/pdfs/mcgeer.pdf "Byzantine Siege Warfare in Theory and Practice"] by Eric McGeer from ''The Medieval City under Siege''
* [http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/MARS/Kekaumenos.pdf ''Logos Nouthetetikos, or Oration of Admonition to an Emperor''] by William North
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