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Droungos (Greek: δροῦγγος, sometimes δρόγγος, drongos) or drungus is a late Roman and Byzantine term for a battalion-sized military unit, and later for a local command guarding mountain districts. Its commander was a "droungarios" or "drungarius" (δρουγγάριος), anglicized as "Drungary".

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Droungos

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singular: θέμα). In turn, each droungos was composed of several banda (singular: bandon). Thus each moira or droungos was the analogue of a modern regiment...

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Galatian language

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Greek. τασκός, taskos, "badger" δρουγγός, droungos, "snout, nose" ὗς, hus, "kermes oak" Both taskos and droungos are given by Epiphanius of Salamis in his...

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Droungarios

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and Byzantine empires, signifying the commander of a formation known as droungos. Latin-speakers adopted the word drungus - first attested in the early...

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Melingoi

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Prince William II of Villehardouin (r. 1246–1278) awarded to the "great droungos of the Melingoi" exemption from all duties except military service. The...

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Byzantine Empire

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Bucellarii Scholae Palatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard...

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Taxiarch

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commander correspondingly as chiliarchos, and are also equated to the thematic droungos under a droungarios. During the 11th century, with the demise of the thematic...

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Constantinople

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Bucellarii Scholae Palatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard...

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Hagia Sophia

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Bucellarii Scholae Palatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard...

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List of Byzantine emperors

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Bucellarii Scholae Palatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard...

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Turma

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level of the earlier droungos, although larger tourmai are still recorded. It is probably no coincidence that the term "droungos" disappears from use...

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Walls of Constantinople

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Bucellarii Scholae Palatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard...

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Sack of Constantinople

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Bucellarii Scholae Palatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard...

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Fourth Crusade

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Hippodrome of Constantinople

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Byzantine flags and insignia

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subordination: the banda of the regiments of the same brigade (moira, droungos) had a field of the same colour, distinguished by a distinctive device...

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Paulicianism

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Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty

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Empire of Trebizond

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Fall of Constantinople

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Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty

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Latin Empire

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Byzantine architecture

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Despotate of the Morea

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Bucellarii Scholae Palatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard...

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Varangian Guard

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Doukas

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Scholae Palatinae

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Bucellarii Scholae Palatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic of the Schools Hetaireia Akritai Varangian Guard...

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