tagmata in a sentence

Examples

1. Theophilos found himself isolated with his " tagmata " and the Kurds on the hill of Anzen.
2. In addition to the themes, there was also the central imperial army stationed in and near Constantinople called the Tagmata.
3. The tagmata were originally battalion-sized units of guards and elite troops who protected the emperors and defended their capital city.
4. Tagmata would henceforth take on yet a third meaning as a generic term for a standing military unit of regimental size or larger.
5. In addition to these more or less stable units, any number of shorter-lived tagmata were formed as favoured units of various emperors.
6. During the Komnenian period the earlier names for the basic units of the Byzantine cavalry, " lochoi " or " tagmata ".
7. The various " tagmata " had a uniform structure, differing only in the nomenclature used for certain titles, which reflected their different ancestries.
8. His army included the men from the Anatolian and possibly also the European tagmata " regiments, as well as a contingent of Persian and Kurdish Khurramites.
9. The 1828-model chiliarchies were abolished after the Battle of Petra in July 1829, and thirteen light infantry battalions ( " tagmata " ) formed instead.
10. The use of Tagamata troops did not directly undermine Byzantine military strength  Romanus Diogenes'campaigns into Seljuq controlled Mesopotamia was composed of Tagmata as well as Theme troops.