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 1  8,15|             beneficium or Byzantine pronoia, that is to say, land granted
 2  8,17|       imperial grant. This term was pronoia.~ Some scholars have incorrectly
 3  8,17|            goes without saying that pronoia is a Greek word meaning “
 4  8,17|     providence.” Of course the word pronoia after receiving the special
 5  8,17|              i.e. in Greek to take “pronoia” of it. Therefore the man
 6  8,17|           itself began to be called pronoia. According to Th. Uspensky,
 7  8,17|     Uspensky, in Byzantium the term pronoia “means a grant to the office-holding
 8  8,17|           was especially meant. The pronoia was not an hereditary property
 9  8,17| unconditionally; the possessor of a pronoia could neither sell, bequeath,
10  8,17|           land. In other words, the pronoia is identified with those
11  8,17|             pagan Roman Empire. The pronoia was granted either by the
12  8,17|             is evidence of the word pronoia used in the sense of a land
13  8,17|           on the special meaning of pronoia from documents begins only
14  8,17|         proves that this meaning of pronoia could not have existed earlier.
15  8,17|    establish the special meaning of pronoia for the period previous
16  8,17|         subject. The institution of pronoia survived through the Middle
17  8,17|             study of the problem of pronoia in Byzantium, in connection
18  8,17|           Ottoman Empire.~ The term pronoia is in common use in Serbian
19  8,17|           In the history of Russia, pronoia is sometimes compared with
20  8,17|             Therefore the Byzantine pronoia corresponds rather to the
21  8,17|        forces. A man who received a pronoia upon condition of military
22  8,17|   connection with his discussion on pronoia, dropped the remark that