The limitanei (Latin, also called ripenses), meaning respectively "the soldiers in frontier districts" (from the Latin word limes meaning frontier) or...

armies (exercitus limitanei). Types (a) and (b) are both frequently defined as "mobile field armies". This is because, unlike the limitanei units, their operations...

associated civilian settlements. The soldiers at a border were referred to as limitanei.[citation needed] They were not expected to win large-scale wars, but...

about the size of limitanei regiments, as can be seen by the wide range of estimates in the table below. Jones suggests limitanei regiments had a similar...

divided into two major units, the limitanei border guards and mobile armies consisting of comitatenses. The limitanei would deal with smaller raids, or...

translated as the more generic "field force" or "mobile force" (as opposed to limitanei or garrison units). In some armed forces, an "army" is or has been equivalent...

more of them. In the fourth century AD, East Roman border guard legions (limitanei) may have become even smaller. In terms of organization and function,...

century: The limitanei or riparienses patrolled the border and defended the border fortifications. According to some older theories, the limitanei were "settled...

against external enemies or Roman rebels, and frontier-garrison troops (limitanei) which were capable of countering barbarian raids, but less and less capable...

above the comitatenses (regiments of the regional comitatus) and the limitanei (border troops). The term derives from palatium ("palace") a reference...

latter of which are recorded by Gregory. Halsall argues that the Rhine limitanei and the old British field army composed the forces of the Riparii and...

term dux emerged as a regular military rank held by a senior officer of limitanei – i.e. frontier troops as opposed those attached to an Imperial field-army...

expeditionary force formed by detachments (vexillationes) from the frontier army (limitanei), separate from, but subject to, the governor of a province, authorized...

the central location, and Coel Hen and Padarn Beisrudd are portrayed as limitanei (frontier soldiers). Hadrian's Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy is a short history...

Africa. These troops were in addition to the limitanei, the permanent border armies; but the limitanei were insufficient against the Moors and so portions...

maintain the traditional infantry-heavy legions, Diocletian reformed it into limitanei ("border") and comitatenses (field armies). However, the last legion,...

evolve into the Late Roman Army, which utilized the comitatenses and limitanei units to defend the Empire. Roman legionaries had armour, a gladius, a...

distance from the borders as a strategic reserve. The border troops (limitanei) stationed at fixed bases continued to be the first line of defence. The...

000 comitatenses in the west, 113,000 comitatenses in the east, 135,000 limitanei in the west, and 248,000 in the east. This estimate was said to be affirmed...

the Greek word akron/akra, meaning border; similar border guards, the limitanei, were employed in the late Roman and early Byzantine armies to guard the...

escort armies); comitatenses, (forces based in frontier provinces) and limitanei (auxilia border troops). Chu Suanzi, Chinese empress of the Jin dynasty...

of the Roman Empire. The Roman and Persian border units were known as limitanei and marzobans, respectively.[citation needed] The Sasanians, and to a...

in the Late Roman Empire, the commander of the troops comitatenses and limitanei in the diocese of Africa. His direct superiors were, in times of the Notitia...

frontiers and fortifications Benjamin Isaac, "The Meaning of 'Limes' and 'Limitanei' in Ancient Sources", Journal of Roman Studies, 78 (1988), pp. 125–147...

Constantine I, who divided the army into escort army (comitatenses) and border (limitanei) troops, giving the late Roman army the structure described in the Notitia...

Dacian Wars (AD 101-6). Dio Cassius named them Dakoi prosoroi (Latin: Daci limitanei) meaning "neighbouring Dacians". A population of Dacians existed on the...

probably also his responsibility. Forces he controlled were classified as limitanei, or frontier troops. In 401 many of his soldiers appear to have been withdrawn...

the East. The army was formed by border and field units. The border (limitanei) units were to occupy the limes, the structured border fortifications...

Late Roman army (284-476), a numerus was a regular infantry unit of the limitanei, or border forces, believed to have been c. 300 strong. Foederati Noumeroi...

(Latin: limitrophus), which were obliged to provide billeting of the limitanei legions deployed on their territory, mostly in limes. In modern history...