The Byzantine navy was the naval force of the Byzantine Empire. Like the state it served, it was a direct continuation from its Roman predecessor, but...

The Arab–Byzantine wars were a series of wars from the 7th to 11th centuries between multiple Arab dynasties and the Byzantine Empire. The Muslim Arab...

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The Byzantine army was the primary military body of the Byzantine armed forces, serving alongside the Byzantine navy. A direct continuation of the Eastern...

destructiveness of Greek fire is indisputable, it did not make the Byzantine navy invincible. It was not, in the words of naval historian John Pryor,...

théma) were the main military and administrative divisions of the middle Byzantine Empire. They were established in the mid-7th century in the aftermath...

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred in Constantinople during Late Antiquity...

The Palaiologan army refers to the military forces of the Byzantine Empire under the rule of the Palaiologos dynasty, from the late 13th century to its...

than stay and fight to defend their plunder. Byzantine army Byzantine navy Byzantine bureaucracy Byzantine military manuals Komnenian army F. Schindler...

For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through...

Byzantine Empire. As the Gasmouloi were enrolled as marines in the Byzantine navy by Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos (r. 1259–1261), the term eventually...

collapsed in the late 5th century. The navy of the surviving eastern Roman Empire is known as the Byzantine navy. The exact origins of the Roman fleet...

the history of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire (395–1453). For internal conflicts see the list of Byzantine revolts and civil wars. For conflicts...

 'runner') was a type of galley and the most important warship of the Byzantine navy from the 5th to 12th centuries AD, when they were succeeded by Italian-style...

The Byzantine economy was among the most robust economies in the Mediterranean for many centuries. Constantinople was a prime hub in a trading network...

northern Europe). The dromon, the lateen-rigged and oared bireme of the Byzantine navy, almost certainly had two masts, a larger foremast and one midships...

The Byzantine–Bulgarian wars were a series of conflicts fought between the Byzantine Empire and Bulgaria which began after the Bulgars conquered parts...

they were based in Egypt. During the first period, the navy was employed mainly against the Byzantine Empire in Sicily and southern Italy, where it enjoyed...

conflicts. There they were conscripted as rowers and marines in the Byzantine navy for several centuries. Others however remained behind and continued...

main fields of Byzantine-Arab contention during the next half-century. The Arabs continued to make headway, most notably constructing a navy that successfully...

June 1453) was a Byzantine Greek statesman who served as the last megas doux or grand Duke (commander-in-chief of the Byzantine navy) and the last mesazon...

rank equivalent to a centurion. Megas doux – Commander-in-chief of the Byzantine navy. Miles or Miles Gregarius – The basic private level foot soldier. Numerus...

Roman usurpers List of Byzantine usurpers Succession to the Byzantine Empire List of Roman and Byzantine empresses List of Byzantine emperors of Armenian...

The Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 was the final and most devastating of the series of wars fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Persian Sasanian...

Andronikos Kamateros, were among the Byzantine emperor's senior aides. The rank of droungarios was also used in the Byzantine navy to designate its admirals. The...

Scientific scholarship during the Byzantine Empire played an important role in the transmission of classical knowledge to the Islamic world and to Renaissance...

Constantinople remained the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (also known as the Byzantine Empire; 330–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and the...

positions in the hierarchy of the later Byzantine Empire, denoting the commander-in-chief of the Byzantine navy. It is sometimes also given in English...

Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great established...

the Byzantine night sky[citation needed]; it resembles dark blue-grey, Prussian and Navy blue, well attested on frescoes and mosaics. "Byzantine Blue...