Eastern roman empire

Last stand of a Roman legion in Germania

Preliminary concept art for Mount and Blade: Bannerlord. Eastern Roman (? Byzantine ?) Heavy Cavalry. A Cataphract (Later Became the Empire)

The Battle of Emesa, 271 AD ➖ "Finding the Palmyrene army drawn up before Emesa, numbering 70,000 men, consisting of Palmyrene's and their allies, he [The Roman emperor Aurelian] arrayed against them the Dalmatian cavalry, the Moesians and Pannonians, and the Gothic Legions [What exactly Zosimus means is unclear; there certainly weren't that many Goths in the Legions as to completely fill them] of Noricum and Raetia, and beside these the Praetorians, chosen by merit from all and the most ...

A great image of Byzantine Cataphracts ca. 5th-6th Century onwards, the foot soldiers are cornuti seniores (Western Troops) on the way to the East to assist the Cornuti Ioniores (Eastern Troops) to help guard the Porta Aurea at Constantinople due to the disastrous Battle of Adrianople in 378 AD and then to help with the Magister Militum Praesentalis of the East. The Cataphracts were the elite Cavavalry force of the The Roman Empire (Byzantines - you all know I don't like that term but I will…

The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was a medieval state that existed from 330 AD to 1453 AD. It emerged as the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, with its capital in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul). The Byzantine Empire was characterized by a strong centralized government, Greek language and culture, ... Read more