Pronoia

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The pronoia (pl. pronoiai; Greek: πρόνοια, meaning "care", "forethought" or "providence," from πρό 'before' and νόος 'mind') was a system of granting dedicated streams of state income to individuals and institutions in the late Byzantine Empire.

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