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Decius (exarch)

Exarch of Ravenna

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ3704516 ↗
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Decius (Ancient Greek: Δέκιος, romanized: Dékios) was Exarch of Ravenna from October 584 to 585. He is thought to have been the first exarch of Ravenna, although some believe that Baduarius had been exarch before him.

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“Decius (exarch)” enters the record as exarch of Ravenna. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Decius, exarch and Exarch can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 0550. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Decius, exarch and Exarch.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3704516. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Decius (exarch)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.