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- ↑ Oikonomidès, Nicolas (1996). Fiscalitė et exemptions fiscale à Byzance (IXe-XIe s.) (in French). Athens. p. 82.
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- ↑ F. Dölger, "Das Aerikon". "Byzantinische Zeitschrift", 30 (1929-30), pp. 450-7, as quoted in Kazhdan, A. (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, vol. 1, New York–Oxford, 1991, p. 28
- ↑ Kazhdan, A., ed. (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 1. New York–Oxford. p. 28.
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