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    Roman military borders and fortifications were part of a grand strategy of territorial defense in the Roman Empire, although this is a matter of debate...
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    Roman Empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were realised as a combination of military roads and linked forts, natural frontiers (most...
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    wooden tower nearby Rainau, Germany Roman military frontiers and fortifications Great Wall – structures of similar scale and function, built by various dynasties...
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  • Natural borders of France Roman military frontiers and fortifications Norman J. G. Pounds, "The origin of the idea of natural frontiers in France." Annals of...
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    Empire Roman military frontiers and fortifications Castra Military engineering of ancient Rome Military establishment of the Roman kingdom Military establishment...
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    Great Wall of China (category Fortification lines)
    Heritage Sites in China Miaojiang Great Wall Offa's Dyke Roman military frontiers and fortifications Zasechnaya cherta "China's Great Wall Found To Measure...
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    Ancient Rome portal Museum of the Walls, Rome Roman military frontiers and fortifications Limes (Roman Empire), a border defense or delimiting system...
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    BC–509 BC) to the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) and the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD), and its medieval continuation, the Eastern Roman Empire. It is thus...
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  • Origin for the Design of Late Roman Fortifications?: Some Problems for Research on Forts of Rome's Eastern Frontier in "The Roman Army in the East", ed. D...
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  • Danubian Limes (category Roman frontiers)
    Danubian Limes (German: Donaulimes), or Danube Limes, refers to the Roman military frontier or limes which lies along the River Danube in the present-day German...
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  • civilized Romans (epitomized in Hadrian's Wall of separation), the reality of Roman frontiers was a fuzzy set of interlocking zones – political, military, judicial...
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  • Germanic frontier), or 'Germanic Limes', is the name given in modern times to a line of frontier (limes) fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces...
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    elements and ideas present among Iranians since ancient times, such as the idea of walled paradise gardens. Roman military frontiers and fortifications Marzban...
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  • This is a list of fortifications past and present, a fortification being a major physical defensive structure often composed of a more or less wall-connected...
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  • split the Roman military into frontier armies and field armies. Theodor Mommsen, H.M.D. Parker, and more recently, Warren Treadgold and David S. Potter...
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    Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun...
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    Saxon Shore (category Roman fortifications in England)
    Shore (Latin: litus Saxonicum) was a military command of the Late Roman Empire, consisting of a series of fortifications on both sides of the Channel. It...
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    A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used...
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  • limes of the Syrian and Mesopotamian frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Roman and Persian border units were known as limitanei and marzobans, respectively...
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    of Roman emperors noblest boy Heather estimates 10,000 Roman dead, Williams & Friell state 20,000 Roman dead. See also Roman military frontiers and fortifications...
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  • The Roman legion (Latin: legiō, Latin: [ˈɫɛɡioː]), the largest military unit of the Roman army, was composed of Roman citizens serving as legionaries...
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  • to a divine source, so great is the military glory of the Roman People that when they profess that their Father and the Father of their Founder was none...
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    Roman military personal equipment was produced in large numbers to established patterns, and used in an established manner. These standard patterns and...
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  • inflection table) was a standard tactical military unit of a Roman legion. Although the standard size changed with time and situation, it was generally composed...
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  • tactical unit of the Roman Republican armies, adopted during the Samnite Wars (343–290 BC). It was also the name of the military insignia carried by such...
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    grave, shameful and dishonorable, and the Roman military went to great lengths both to protect a standard and to recover one had it been lost; after the...
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  • the Roman military concerns the major transformations in the organization and constitution of ancient Rome's armed forces, "the most effective and long-lived...
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    Moesian Limes (category Roman frontiers)
    linked series of Roman forts on the northern frontier of the Roman province of Moesia along the Danube between the Black Sea shore and Pannonia (present-day...
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  • Castra (redirect from Roman military camp)
    In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (pl.: castra) was a military-related term. In Latin usage, the singular form castrum...
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    reign, similar fortification efforts are conducted on the other frontiers as well, with fortifications constructed or restored behind, on and beyond the borders...
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