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As we fleetingly mentioned before in the article, the Byzantine army was relatively well paid, especially when compared to the European realms of the contemporary time period. Continue reading “10 Things You Should Know About The Early Medieval Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Army – Part II”
Popular notions tend to group the later Eastern Roman realm, or more specifically the Byzantine Empire, as a strictly medieval entity that encompassed Greece, the surrounding Balkans, and the Anatolian landmass. Continue reading “10 Things You Should Know About The Early Medieval Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Army – Part I”
Byzantium was continuously at war, and without its army it would not have survived. The key to the army’s success was its ability to change, as the face of the enemy changed. The fourth century saw the first change, in response to the greater mobility of
German invaders. Continue reading “The Eastern Roman Army – a quick view”
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