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The Byzantine army was the primary military body of the Byzantine armed forces, serving alongside the Byzantine navy. A direct continuation of the Eastern Roman army , shaping and developing itself on the legacy of the late Hellenistic armies , [ 1 ] it maintained a similar level of discipline, strategic prowess and organization.
Nestoritsa's Bulgarians reached Thessalonika, but Byzantine troops under Theophylact Botaneiates, the strategos (governor-general) of the city and his son Mihail managed to defeat them outside the city walls in a bloody battle. Theophylactus captured many soldiers and a large quantity of military equipment and marched north to join Basil at Klyuch.
853 – Sack of Damietta – Byzantine fleet raids and captures the port of Damietta in Egypt; 862 – Capture of Faruriyyah – Abbasids capture the border fortress of Farurriyah; 863 – Battle of Lalakaon – Byzantine army under Petronas annihilates the army of Malatya and kills its emir, Umar al-Aqta
The Byzantine patrikios, who commanded the defense, surrendered with a few of his men, but they were executed after a week, while a handful of soldiers escaped and brought the news east to the fleet that had belatedly set sail to aid the city. The Aghlabids were unable to capitalize upon this success due to internal rivalries, which even led to ...
The Palaiologan army refers to the military forces of the Byzantine Empire under the rule of the Palaiologos dynasty, from the late 13th century to its final collapse in the mid-15th century. The army was a direct continuation of the forces of the Empire of Nicaea , which itself was a fractured component of the formidable Komnenian army of the ...
The Byzantine army maintained units of heavily armored cavalrymen up until its final years, mostly in the form of Western European Latinikon mercenaries, while neighbouring Bulgars, Serbs, Avars, Alans, Lithuanians, Khazars, and other Eurasian peoples emulated Byzantine military
Military units and formations of the Byzantine Empire (2 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Byzantine army" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Pages in category "Military units and formations of the Byzantine Empire" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .