Peltast
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title:
Peltast
text:
A peltast was a type of light infantry originating in Thrace and Paeonia and named after the kind of shield he carried. Thucydides mentions the Thracian peltasts, while Xenophon in the Anabasis distinguishes the Thracian and Greek peltast troops. The peltast often served as a skirmisher in Hellenistic armies. In the Middle Ages, the same term was used for a type of Byzantine infantryman.
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wiki
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description:
Type of ancient Greek light infantry
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltast
date created:
2004-07-30T08:32:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T10:33:53Z
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