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Image Credit: Matthieu de Clermont défend Ptolémaïs en 1291, by Dominique Papety (1815–49).

Image Credits: 1- Map of the main Byzantine-Muslim naval operations and battles in the Mediterranean, 7th–11th centuries.

2- Model of a Byzantine warship (dromon) with oars, located Athens War Museum.

3- The Byzantine fleet repels the Rus' attack on Constantinople in 941.

4- Depiction of a sea battle, from a 13th-century copy of Oppian's Cynegetica.

5- 14th-century painting of a light galley, from an icon now at the Byzantine and Christian Museum at Athens.

6- John VIII boarding his galley. Bronze door by Filarete in the St. Peter's Basilica, about 1448.

From scratch to the professional level, all are accepted only if they are in English.

Image Credit: A commission for a heraldry society called the Society Milos Obelik, Serbia, (2015)

What do you think?

And why Angles becomes more succesful at all?

Image Credit: Medieval World, Issue 12.

What do you think of the basic foot soldiers to the most complicatedly trained units of the empire, (mercenaries also included) which unit was the most effective and useful against the enemies of the empire in long-term?

What do you think of the basic foot soldiers to the most complicatedly trained units of the ERE, (mercenaries also included) which unit was the most effective and useful against the enemies of the empire in long-term?