• founder and first King of Rome, the celeres comprised three hundred men, ten chosen by each of the curiae. The celeres were the strongest and bravest warriors...
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    English tribune of the celeres, or tribune of the knights, was commander of the king's personal bodyguard, known as the celeres. This official was second...
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    else delegate this authority to his chief advisor, the Tribune of the Celeres, the cavalry unit that also served as the king's personal bodyguard. The...
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  • Marinospirillum celere is a helical, haloalkaliphilic and Gram-negative bacterium from the genus of Marinospirillum which has been isolated from sediments...
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    The Carro Armato M Celere Sahariano (Italian for "Saharian Fast Medium Tank") or M16/43 was a prototype medium tank developed by the Kingdom of Italy during...
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  • the plebs), Military tribune (a rank in the Roman army), Tribune of the Celeres (the commander of the king's personal bodyguard), and various other positions...
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  • The 356th Celere Section of the Royal Carabinieri (Italian: 356ª Sezione Celere CC.RR.) was an Italian Royal Carabinieri military police unit during World...
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    In the regal era, the Roman cavalry was a group of 300 soldiers called celeres, tasked with guarding the Kings of Rome. Later their numbers were doubled...
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    Plutarch, Numa's first act was to disband the personal guard of 300 so-called celeres (the "Swift") with which Romulus permanently surrounded himself. This gesture...
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    one century of cavalry; the three hundred cavalry became known as the Celeres, "the swift", and formed the royal bodyguard. Choosing one hundred men...
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    Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" (Italian: 3ª Divisione celere "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta") was a Cavalry or "Celere" (Fast) division of the Royal Italian Army...
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    in Rome and also as the commander of the king's personal bodyguard, the Celeres. The king was required to appoint the tribune upon entering office, and...
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    ISBN 978-0-8108-4910-5. Starace, A. (1937). La marcia su Gondar della colonna celere A.O. e le successive operazioni nella Etiopia Occidentale [The March on...
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    tribe in Rome and as the commander of the king's personal bodyguard, the celeres. The king was required to appoint the tribune upon entering office and...
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  • Celer were brothers, and members of the noble Capuan house of the Ninnii Celeres, during the Second Punic War. Following the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC...
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  • Romulus, who supposedly established a cavalry regiment of 300 men called the Celeres ("Swift Squadron") to act as his personal escort, with each of the three...
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    an oath to expel the king and his family from Rome. As Tribune of the Celeres, Brutus was head of the king's personal bodyguard, and entitled to summon...
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  • Causarius – A soldier discharged for wounds or other medical reasons. Celeres - A royal guard created by Romulus to guard the King of Rome. Centurion...
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    cavalry to the commander of his personal bodyguards, the Tribune of the Celeres. The king sometimes deferred to precedent, often simply out of practical...
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  • the Celeres bodyguard during Romulus' reign as king, which would have likely provided the group its name, though Ovid does not mention this. Celeres, a...
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    strongest and fittest among the nobles were also established: the latter, the celeres, were so-named either for their quickness, or, according to Valerius Antias...
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    revolutionaries kept them in good order. Brutus was the Tribune of the Celeres, a minor office of some religious duties, which as a magistracy gave him...
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    Army (Regio Esercito) equipped three armoured divisions and three "fast" (celere) divisions with L3/33 and L3/35 tankettes. The L3s were used in large numbers...
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    infantry (rorarii, later called velites) and 600 light cavalry (equites celeres). When the kings were replaced by two annually elected praetores in c....
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  • infantry (rorarii, later called velites) and 600 light cavalry (equites celeres). When the kings were replaced by two annually-elected Consuls in c. 500...
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    "Hiberni suo Chambroch, quod est Trifolium pratense purpureum, aluntur, celeres & promtissimi roburis" ('The Irish call it shamrock, which is purple field...
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    these 73, there are 59 infantry divisions, six Alpini divisions, three Celere divisions, three armored divisions plus numerous Frontier Guard and coastal...
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  • Paris Edited by Joachimus Perionius [fr; de; it]. 1533 Caelius Aurelianus, Celeres passiones [de] Simon de Colines Paris Edited by Joannes Gunterius. 1533...
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    also use the "S" prefix, although in Italian such networks are called rete celere (lit. fast network) instead of S-Bahn. The oldest network in Switzerland...
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    General) Vittorio Ambrosio, and consisted of one fast (Italian: celere) corps (Celere Corps), one motorised corps (Motorised Corps) and three infantry...
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