The Tactica (Greek: Τακτικά) is a military treatise written by or on behalf of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise in c. 895–908, and later edited by his...
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Leo VI, also known as Leo the Wise (Greek: Λέων ὁ Σοφός, romanized: Léōn ho Sophós, 19 September 866 – 11 May 912), was Byzantine Emperor from 886 to...
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Leo VI the Wise, written in the early 10th century and attributed to the emperor Leo VI the Wise the Tactica of Nikephoros Ouranos, written in the early...
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Greek fire (redirect from Kallinikos of Heliopolis)
the military documents of the 10th century, and recommended for use in both sea and land. They first appear in the Tactica of emperor Leo VI the Wise...
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On War (redirect from Culminating point of victory)
Maurice de Saxel Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger Strategikon of Maurice by Byzantine Emperor Maurice Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise Truppenführung by Helmuth...
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Nikephoros Ouranos (redirect from Tactica of Nikephoros Ouranos)
into the following parts: Chapters 1–55 are a paraphrase of the Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912). Chapters 56–62 are a paraphrase of the Praecepta...
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result. The use of bees as guided biological weapons was described in Byzantine written sources, such as Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise in the chapter...
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György 2002 p. 109 Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise, referring to the Hungarians and other nomadic warriors. Hungarian translation from the original Greek:...
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Byzantine Greeks (redirect from Greeks of the Byzantine Empire)
of illiterate Byzantine tourmarchai in the Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912). In Byzantium, the elementary school teacher occupied a low...
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Byzantine military manuals (section List of works)
the Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912), compiled ca. 890s, comprise excerpts of Maurice's Strategikon arranged in a question-and-answer format. The Tactica...
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Tabor Light Tabula Peutingeriana Tactica of Emperor Leo VI the Wise Tactica of Nikephoros Ouranos Tagaris Taginae, Battle of Tagma (military) Tagmatarchis...
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accession of Leo VI the Wise, in late 886. Shaun Tougher however posits that Nikephoros was sent to Italy only after the accession of Leo VI, as Leo in his...
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Aelianus Tacticus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
especially its preface. Emperor Leo VI the Wise incorporated much of Aelian's text in his own Taktika. The Arabic version of Aelian was made about 1350...
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brother, Leo VI (r. 886–912), was made co-emperor merely to secure the imperial lineage and bolster legitimacy. However, Constantine died of fever on...
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Tagma (military) (redirect from Imperial Guard of Constantinople)
of Philotheos (899), and the Escorial Taktikon (c. 975); ii) the various Byzantine military manuals, chiefly the Tactica of Leo VI the Wise; iii) the...
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10th century in literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
2012. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2012. Frédéric 2002, p. 532. Fortescue, Adrian (1910). "Leo Diaconus" . Catholic...
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Byzantine Empire (redirect from Empire of the Greeks)
translation of Justinian I's law-code which included over 100 new laws of Leo's devising; the Tactica, a military treatise; and the Book of the Eparch, which...
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Bandon (Byzantine Empire) (category Military units and formations of the Byzantine Empire)
senior second-in-command illarches. By the reign of Leo VI the Wise (886–912), the hekatontarchia disappeared and the bandon was divided into six allagia...
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Allagion (category Military units and formations of the Byzantine Empire)
term means "rotation of duties" and first appears in the Tactica of Leo VI the Wise in the early 10th century for a generic body of troops. In a more technical...
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Byzantine navy (category Military history of the Mediterranean)
Indeed, Leo VI openly advised (Tactica, XIX.36) against direct confrontation and advocates the use of stratagems instead. According to Leo VI (Tactica, XIX...
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Turma (category Military units and formations of the Byzantine Empire)
recruitment areas. In his Taktika, Emperor Leo VI the Wise (r. 886–912) presents an idealized thema as consisting of three tourmai, each divided into three droungoi...
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Byzantine battle tactics (section Byzantine Art of War)
manual, the famous Tactica by Leo VI the Wise, provides instructions for dealing with various foes such as: The Lombards and the Franks (the latter name was...
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Byzantine army (category Military history of the Mediterranean)
thereafter in the 1120s onwards. Alongside trebuchets, the Tactica of Leo VI mentions the use of the toxobolistra, which is further described by the De Ceremoniis'...
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military maneuver of the nomadic armies, as presented very well by the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise in his work Tactica: "[The Hungarians] love mostly...
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Military strategy (redirect from Military strategy of the Second World War)
attributed to Emperor Leo VI the Wise of Byzantium. As a counterpoint to European developments in the strategic art, the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan provides...
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also to lead the campaign? In another contemporary work of a Byzantine emperor, Tactica of Leo VI the Wise written around 904, writes about the nations which...
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