Limitanei
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The limitanei, meaning respectively "the soldiers in frontier districts" or "the soldiers on the riverbank", were an important part of the late Roman and early Byzantine army after the reorganizations
A re-enactor portraying a Roman Limitaneus
Reconstructed Roman fortifications at Vindolanda. The limitanei would garrison similar forts around the Empire.
Comitatenses
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The comitatenses and later the palatini were the units of the field armies of the late Roman Empire. They were the soldiers that replaced the legionaries, who had formed the backbone of the Roman mili
Limitanei
…important part of the late Roman and early Byzantine army after the reorganizations of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries. The limitanei, unlike the comitatenses, palatīni, and scholae, garrisoned fortifications along the borders of the Roman Empire and were not normally expected to fight far from their…
A re-enactor portraying a Roman infantry soldier of the Late Antiquity