A dromon (from Greek δρόμων, dromōn,lit. 'runner') was a type of galley and the most important warship of the Byzantine navy from the 5th to 12th centuries...
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Chelandion (Greek: χελάνδιον) was a Byzantine galley warship, a variant of the dromōn that also functioned as a cargo transport. The term chelandion is derived...
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Ship classification society (redirect from Dromon Bureau of Shipping)
Register of Ukraine (Регістр судноплавства України) RU (РУ) 1998 Kyiv No Dromon Bureau of Shipping DBS 2003 Piraeus No Overseas Marine Certification Services...
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Bireme Boat Bomb vessel Brig Brigantine Caravel Clipper Cog Corvette Cutter Dromon Flyboat Frigate Full-rigged ship Galley Galleon Hulk Junk Liburnian Longship...
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The term derives from the Medieval Greek galea, a smaller version of the dromon, the prime warship of the Byzantine navy. The origin of the Greek word is...
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Byzantine navy (section Dromons and their derivatives)
re-establishment of a permanently maintained fleet and the introduction of the dromon galley in the same period also marks the point when the Byzantine navy began...
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Army Navy Karabisianoi Maritime themata Cibyrrhaeot Aegean Sea Samos Dromon Greek fire Droungarios of the Fleet Megas doux Admirals Naval battles...
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raiding through piracy. The dromon were the most advanced galleys on the Mediterranean, until the 10th century development of a dromon called a galeai and which...
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Fire ship Galley Penteconter Bireme Trireme Quadriremes Tessarakonteres Dromon Junk K'un-lun po Lepa Mtepe Uru Post-classical Balinger Benawa Birlinn Bomb...
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include: Coxless pair, Coxed pair, Coxless four, Coxed four, and Eight Galley, Dromon, Trainera, and Trireme Moving a single stern-mounted oar from side to side...
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