A cataphract was a form of armoured heavy cavalry that originated in Persia and was fielded in ancient warfare throughout Eurasia and Northern Africa....

believed to be the originator of the class of heavy cavalry known as cataphract. During the time of Achaemenid Persia cavalry was the elite arm of service...

armour for horses could be found as far back as classical antiquity. Cataphracts, with scale armour for both rider and horse, are believed by many historians...

kataphraktos, meaning "covered over" or "completely covered" (see Cataphract). Heavily armoured cataphract cavalry, usually armed with a long lance (contus), were...

The Issyk Golden Cataphract Warrior, is a suit of armor consisting of thousands of gold pieces found by chance in 1969 during the construction of a garage...

by the aristocracy, were heavily armored, and ranged from archers to cataphracts. The word comes from the Old Persian word asabāra (from asa- and bar...

the desert and decisively defeated by a mixed cavalry army of heavy cataphracts and light horse archers led by the Parthian general Surena. On such flat...

pre-eminence of cavalry on the Parthian model, including both heavy cataphracts and horse-archers. Four main arms of the service were recognized, each...

depending on era and tactics, such as a cavalryman, horseman, trooper, cataphract, knight, drabant, hussar, uhlan, mamluk, cuirassier, lancer, dragoon,...

were an elite late Parthian and Sasanian division who fought as heavy cataphract cavalry. According to Roman sources, the Grivpanvar had the ability to...

fought with javelins and the machaira sword. The use of heavily armored cataphracts and also horse archers was adopted by the Seleucids, Greco-Bactrians...

overlords to establish the Jin dynasty in 1115. In 1125, the devastating Jin cataphract annihilated the Liao dynasty, while remnants of Liao court members fled...

of the United Kingdom Papal Orders of Chivalry Aswaran Baghatur Boyar Cataphract Condottieri Conquistador Eagle warrior Equites Eso Ikoyi Furusiyya Housecarl...

Sassanid Empire were two types of heavy cavalry units: Clibanarii and Cataphracts. The first cavalry force, composed of elite noblemen trained since youth...

as Kufic letters and Moorish arches. The creation of heavily-armoured cataphract-type soldiers as cavalry was an important feature of the later Roman military...

Cataphract-style parade armour of a Saka royal, also known as "The Golden Warrior", from the Issyk kurgan, a historical burial site near Almaty, Kazakhstan...

the Iranians, especially Achaemenid successors' cavalry, most notably cataphracts (Grivpanvar). A shift in the terminology used to describe Sarmatian weapons...

categorize them as cataphracts (fully armored, a type of cavalry not to be confused with the Seleucid, Parthian or Byzantine cataphracts) and aphracts (unarmored)...

históricas sobre la Antigüedad tardía, Nº 16, pages 397–418.ISSN 0214-7165. Cataphracts and Siegecraft - Roman, Parthian and Sasanid military organisation....

cavalry were called Gaemamusa (개마무사; 鎧馬武士), and similar in type to the Cataphract. Goguryeo used a sword called Hwandudaedo. It looks like the sword drawing...

Byzantines attempted to replicate these elite units, calling them "cataphracts". The word cataphract (from the Greek κατάφρακτος, kataphraktos, with a literal...

at this time: the Sarmatians, for instance, relied on heavily armored cataphracts armed with lances. The Huns' use of terrible war cries are also found...

Military of the Sasanian Empire Armed forces and units Cataphract Clibanarii Aswaran Grivpanvar War elephants Paygan Immortals Pushtigban Sarmatians Daylamites...

the command of the pushtigban-salar ; in battle they fought mostly as cataphracts, heavily armed and armoured horsemen who would charge enemy positions...

A four-wheeled ballista drawn by armored cataphract horses, c. 400...

Roman legions, its strength was in its cavalry, especially the armoured cataphracts, which evolved from the clibanarii of the late empire. Infantry were...

gives an account of a Roman shield array being defeated by Parthian cataphracts and horse archers at the Battle of Carrhae: For if [the legionaries]...

as combat weapons until 1920. Demi-lancer Chevau-léger Polish cavalry Cataphract Companion cavalry For an illustration of a fully armed lancer, see Michael...

armies included two types of cavalry: the heavily armed and armored cataphracts and the lightly armed but highly-mobile mounted archers. For the Romans...

and fielded large numbers of heavily armoured and armed cavalry (see Cataphract). For a heavily armed Persian knight, a mace was as effective as a sword...