03-13-2014, 04:11 PM
I've come very late to this debate, but Evan suggested that this may be a useful contribution for the Post Roman period?
In seventh century Visigothic Spain "The provinces of the Spanish kingdon continued to be used as military districts with provoncial armies commanded by a dux exercitus provinciae.....As in the sixth century , the army itself was divided into apparently decimally organised sub-units led by tiuphadi ..."commander of a thousand", quingentarii (commanders of 500), centuriones and decuriones."
. (Halsall G., Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900, Routledge 2003, page 60 )
In seventh century Visigothic Spain "The provinces of the Spanish kingdon continued to be used as military districts with provoncial armies commanded by a dux exercitus provinciae.....As in the sixth century , the army itself was divided into apparently decimally organised sub-units led by tiuphadi ..."commander of a thousand", quingentarii (commanders of 500), centuriones and decuriones."
. (Halsall G., Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900, Routledge 2003, page 60 )