The Exarchate system was a response to weakening imperial authority in faraway provinces and constitued part of the overall process of unification of civil and military offices, initiated in early form by Justinian I.

Hold both castle and city holdings like you once did in CK2!Įxarchate: In the civil administration of the Byzantine Empire an exarch was the imperial governor of a large and important region of the Empire. IMPERIAL AUTOCRACYUnlike feudal Western Europe, the Roman Empire employed a complex bureaucratic system which emphasized that all land, ultimately, belonged to the Empire.