- A
dromon (from Gr**** δρόμων,
dromōn, lit. 'runner') was a type of
galley and the most
important warship of the
Byzantine navy from the 5th to 12th centuries...
- The term
derives from the
Medieval Gr**** galea, a
smaller version of the
dromon, the
prime warship of the
Byzantine navy. The
origin of the Gr**** word is...
-
Register of
Ukraine (Регістр судноплавства України) RU (РУ) 1998 Kyiv No
Dromon Bureau of
Shipping DBS 2003
Piraeus No
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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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Chelandion (Gr****: χελάνδιον) was a
Byzantine galley warship, a
variant of the
dromōn that also
functioned as a
cargo transport. The term
chelandion is derived...
- 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...
-
comprised not only the
formula of its composition, but also the
specialized dromon ships that
carried it into battle, the
device used to
prepare the substance...
- 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...
- fleets. It
became the
dominant power in the
eastern Mediterranean, with
dromons equipped with Gr**** fire
proving crucial on
several occasions. As the 8th-century...
- Hesychius: oùnei, deṹro, dràme. The
Arcadians also oùnon, the
Cypriots drómon. This
intepretetion relates the
epithet to "move quickly". hodios, patron...
