Akritai

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What Wikipedia says

The akritai (Greek: ἀκρίται, sing. akrites, ἀκρίτης) is a term used in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th–11th centuries to denote the frontier soldiers guarding the Empire's eastern border, facing the Muslim states of the Middle East.

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