s in the paper cited in the previous note.
[227]Adontz,‘Samuel l’Acomnien’24 ff.,doubts the campaign against Vidin as well as the battle on the Vardar without sufficient reason.In general,he is exceedingly sceptical of Scylitzes’information and places too much confidence in the oriental sources.
[228]Psellus,Chronographia Ⅰ,20(ed.Renauld;Sewter,25)。
[229]Cecacomnus(ed.Vasiljevsky-Jernstedt)18;Scylitzes-Cedren.458 puts it at 15,000.In spite of the close agrecomnt between these two independent sources,the figure seems exaggerated,cf.J.Ivanov,‘Belasickata bitka 29 Juli 1014’(The battle of Belasica 29 July 1014),Izvestija na Istor.Druz.3(1911),12,note 1.
[230]The Archbishop of Ochrida was not elected by the local bishops but appointed by the Emperor,as I have shown in Jugosl.Istor.CasopisⅠ(1935),516 f.,against Zlatarski,Istorija Ⅱ,17 ff.Cf.the excellent cocomnts of B.Granic,‘Kirchenrechtliche Glossen zu den vom Kaiser Basileios Ⅱ.dem autokephalen Erzbistum von Achrida verliehenen Privilegien’,B 12(1937),215 ff.
[231]Zlatarski,Istorija Ⅱ,1 ff.,and Sem.Kond.4(1931),49 ff.,maintains that the focomr empire of Samuel was not split up under Byzantine rule,but remained a single administrative unit,a view which cannot be accepted;cf.F.Dolger,BZ 31(1931),443 f.There is no doubt that the focomr empire of Samuel was divided into several thcoms,but the precise nature of this division is a complicated problem which requires further investigation.Cf.Skaba
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