The limitanei or ripenses meaning respectively `the soldiers in frontier districts` (from the Latin phrase limes, meaning a military district of a frontier province) or `the soldiers on the riverbank` (from the Rhine and Danube), were an important part of the late Roman and early Byzantine army after the reorganizations of the late 3rd and ear...
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(from the article `North Africa`) ...of the provincial governors. Only the governors of Tripolitania and of Mauretania Caesariensis also had troops at their disposal, but these were ...
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The border troops on the frontiers. They did not move around as the legionaries did, but remained based in one place.
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