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The role of dignitaries of lower-rank thematic units in Byzantine society [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2022 The paper aims to elucidate the place and role, i.e., the real power of functionaries of lower-ranking units in the Byzantine theme system. Their status in the Byzantine bureaucratic and aristocratic society was essentially determined by ...
Cvetković Miloš
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Nuova Antologia Militare, 2022 It’s widely accepted that the number of eight thousand Byzantine soldiers slaughtered at the battle of the Scultenna river (643), reported by Paul the Deacon, using as his source the “Origo Gentis Langobardorum”, has been greatly exaggerated, mainly to ...
Mattia Caprioli
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The regular military contingents of Byzantine army in VII – beginning of the VIII c.
Античная древность и средние века, 2019 The article deals with history of regular Byzantine forces in VII – beginning of the VIII c. The author’s attention is focused on loss of fighting efficiency of palace guard. Similar detachments of imperial guard were disbanded.
Anton Sergeyevich Mokhov
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Manuele I Comneno e la crociata: uno strumento di egemonia imperiale?
Nuova Antologia Militare, 2023 Historiography has often read in battle of Miriocephalus (1176), in which the Seljuks of Rûm severely defeated the Byzantine army, a sort of “Byzantine crusade”.
Carlo Venturi
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Caliph Al-Mu‘tasim’s Expedition against Amorion in 838 AD: The Chronology Reconsidered
Античная древность и средние века, 2020 This research offers a detailed reconstruction of one of the most famous episodes of Byzantine-Arab relations in the ninth century, the victorious campaign of the Abbasid army led by Caliph al-Mu‘tasim deep into the territory of Byzantium in 838 AD ...
Pavel Vladimirovich Kuzenkov
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A contribution to the study of lamellar armors [PDF]
Starinar, 2005 The work is based on the finds of lamellar armors from the Early Byzantine site Svetinja at Viminacium. In addition to the analysis of the finds we presented also the analogies from Early Byzantine, Germanic and Avar contexts and we also paid attention ...
Bugarski Ivan
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Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2020 This paper considers the duties and formation peculiarities of the office of strategos (commander-in-chief of any regional Byzantine army) during the early stage of its existence, i.е. between the 7th and first half of the 8th centuries.
Еvgeny Аleksandrovich Меkhamadiev
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Античная древность и средние века, 2018 The paper considers the question of methods of reinforcement of Byzantine regular army which stood in Armenian provinces of Byzantium in 4th - 7th A.D.
Yevgeniy Mekhamadiev
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Persian Immigrants in the Armed Forces of Early Byzantium
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020 Introduction. The article is devoted to Persians who served in the Early Byzantine armed forces. Even during the Principate period, alae and cohortes which were originally recruited from Parthians were part of the Roman imperial army.
Andrey D. Nazarov
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In the Chronographia, is Michael Psellos’ concern for the army entirely disinterested? [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2012 The present article analyzes Psellos’ commentary on the disarray of the Byzantine army in the Chronographia. The topic is examined in relation to the political circumstances of the time, and the author’s own particular situation.
Vratimos Antonios
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