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...
6 KB (684 words) - 14:22, 21 October 2024
Tribune (section Tribune of the celeres)
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...
17 KB (2,313 words) - 06:42, 25 October 2024
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...
15 KB (2,084 words) - 02:22, 14 April 2024
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...
5 KB (525 words) - 21:26, 26 October 2024
Marinospirillum celere is a helical, haloalkaliphilic and Gram-negative bacterium from the genus of Marinospirillum which has been isolated from sediments...
2 KB (147 words) - 11:00, 2 November 2024
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...
42 KB (3,297 words) - 00:36, 8 August 2024
356th Carabinieri Section (redirect from 356th Celere Section)
The 356th Celere Section of the Royal Carabinieri (Italian: 356ª Sezione Celere CC.RR.) was an Italian Royal Carabinieri military police unit during World...
14 KB (1,345 words) - 10:21, 2 November 2024
Sthenius and Pacuvius Ninnius Celer (redirect from Ninnii Celeres)
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...
2 KB (233 words) - 06:49, 21 February 2024
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...
23 KB (2,986 words) - 00:16, 2 September 2024
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...
33 KB (4,089 words) - 18:14, 15 March 2024
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...
30 KB (4,295 words) - 16:02, 2 November 2024
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...
103 KB (13,155 words) - 10:22, 28 October 2024
one century of cavalry; the three hundred cavalry became known as the Celeres, "the swift", and formed the royal bodyguard. Choosing one hundred men...
32 KB (3,874 words) - 06:03, 28 October 2024
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...
17 KB (2,071 words) - 03:07, 25 October 2024
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...
2 KB (244 words) - 16:47, 1 October 2023
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...
37 KB (4,294 words) - 14:36, 27 October 2024
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...
62 KB (8,243 words) - 16:06, 26 October 2024
Causarius – A soldier discharged for wounds or other medical reasons. Celeres - A royal guard created by Romulus to guard the King of Rome. Centurion...
16 KB (2,073 words) - 18:46, 20 September 2024
cavalry to the commander of his personal bodyguards, the Tribune of the Celeres. The king sometimes deferred to precedent, often simply out of practical...
21 KB (2,612 words) - 10:10, 25 October 2024
"Hiberni suo Chambroch, quod est Trifolium pratense purpureum, aluntur, celeres & promtissimi roburis" ('The Irish call it shamrock, which is purple field...
47 KB (5,326 words) - 21:44, 30 September 2024
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...
31 KB (4,149 words) - 16:10, 2 November 2024
infantry (rorarii, later called velites) and 600 light cavalry (equites celeres). When the kings were replaced by two annually elected praetores in c....
33 KB (4,094 words) - 10:36, 28 October 2024
these 73, there are 59 infantry divisions, six Alpini divisions, three Celere divisions, three armored divisions plus numerous Frontier Guard and coastal...
17 KB (1,815 words) - 19:18, 2 November 2024
Reparti Mobili) of the Polizia di Stato, often generically identified as a "Celere Units", are the police units used as a ready-to-use resource for riot control...
12 KB (1,403 words) - 21:28, 21 October 2024
3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" (redirect from Italian 3 Celere Division Amedeo Duca d'Aosta)
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...
20 KB (2,031 words) - 10:46, 21 October 2024
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...
28 KB (3,388 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2024
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...
10 KB (1,037 words) - 21:08, 15 May 2024
system, the "S" prefix, although in Italian such networks are called rete celere (lit. 'fast network') instead of S-Bahn. The oldest network in Switzerland...
43 KB (4,524 words) - 23:11, 20 October 2024
infantry (rorarii, later called velites) and 600 light cavalry (equites celeres). When the kings were replaced by two annually-elected Consuls in c. 500...
29 KB (4,369 words) - 09:28, 27 September 2024
Lieutenant Celer, the cavalry was called the "Celeres". Throughout the centuries, Emperors were choosing the new Celeres Warriors from sons of the wealthy, and...
5 KB (229 words) - 20:58, 24 October 2019