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    The Roman army of the mid-Republic, also called the manipular Roman army or the Polybian army, refers to the armed forces deployed by the mid-Roman Republic...
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    The Roman army of the late Republic refers to the armed forces deployed by the late Roman Republic, from the beginning of the first century BC until the...
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    BC. The central feature of the Roman army of the mid-Republic, or the Polybian army, was the manipular organization of its battle-line. Instead of a single...
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    The Imperial Roman Army was the military land force of the Roman Empire from 27 BC to 476 AD, and the final incarnation in the long history of the Roman...
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    Spatha Roman military diploma Honesta missio Praetorian Guard Victory titles Roman army Early Roman army Roman army of the mid-Republic Roman army of the late...
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    due to the use of iron in its frame. It had a handle and a shield boss (umbo). The parma was used in the Roman army of the mid-Republic, by the lowest...
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    Velites (category Military units and formations of the Roman Republic)
    Velites (Latin: [ˈweːlɪteːs]; sg.: veles) were a class of infantry in the Roman army of the mid-Republic from 211 to 107 BC. Velites were light infantry and...
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    culminated in the demise of the Roman Republic and the advent of the Roman Empire. The causes and attributes of the crisis changed throughout the decades,...
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  • were elected each year to head the government of the state, and in the early to mid-Republic were assigned a consular army and an area in which to campaign...
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    The Senate was the governing and advisory assembly of the aristocracy in the ancient Roman Republic. It was not an elected body, but one whose members...
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  • of Roman army units and bureaucrats. Accensus – Light infantry men in the armies of the early Roman Republic, made up of the poorest men of the army....
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    The War of Actium (32–30 BC) was the last civil war of the Roman Republic, fought between Mark Antony (assisted by Cleopatra and by extension Ptolemaic...
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    Auxilia (redirect from Roman auxiliaries)
    his reorganisation of the Imperial Roman army from 27 BC. By the 2nd century, the Auxilia contained the same number of infantry as the legions and, in addition...
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    The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana [ˈreːs ˈpuːblɪka roːˈmaːna]) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of...
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    The legions of the Roman Republic and Empire had a fairly standardised dress and armour, particularly from approximately the early to mid 1st century...
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  • The Roman legion (Latin: legiō, Latin: [ˈɫɛɡioː]), the largest military unit of the Roman army, was composed of Roman citizens serving as legionaries...
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    Elections in the Roman Republic were an essential part of its governance, with participation only being afforded to Roman citizens. Upper-class interests...
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    about the nature of the language. The kingdom of Noricum was a major provider of weaponry for the Roman army from the mid-Republic onwards. Roman swords...
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    It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), the Roman Republic (509–27 BC), and the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD) until the fall of the western empire...
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    War flag (redirect from Army flag)
    flag of the Roman Republic of 1849 Flag of the Red Army and Soviet Armed Forces (Unofficial) Royal Siamese Army in Haw wars (1885–1890) War flag of Mughals...
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    was the highest elected public official of the Roman Republic (c. 509 BC to 27 BC). Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the cursus...
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  • Extraordinarii (category Military units and formations of the Roman Republic)
    the Social War. Roman army of the mid-Republic Chrissanthos, Stefan G. (2008-10-30). Warfare in the Ancient World: From the Bronze Age to the Fall of...
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    War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia...
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  • and the socii upon the wings. Consular armies of the mid-Republic would consist of two legions of Roman citizens and two legions of "ala", with the ala...
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    scholarship, the "late" period of the Roman army begins with the accession of the Emperor Diocletian in AD 284, and ends in 480 with the death of Julius Nepos...
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    In the Roman army during classical antiquity, a centurion (/sɛnˈtjʊəriən/; Latin: centurio [kɛn̪ˈt̪ʊrioː], pl. centuriones; ‹See Tfd›Greek: κεντυρίων,...
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  • kilometers of border and consisting of over 400,000 legionaries and auxiliaries, the army was the most important institution in the Roman world. According...
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  • the Roman Kingdom and the first century of the Roman Republic, legionary cavalry was recruited exclusively from the ranks of the patricians, who were expected...
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  • start of the Roman Republic to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The focus below is primarily on Roman tactics: the "how" of their approach to battle...
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  • The early Roman army was deployed by ancient Rome during its Regal Era and into the early Republic around 300 BC, when the so-called "Polybian" or manipular...
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