Definition of Kontarion. Meaning of Kontarion. Synonyms of Kontarion

- a soldier's cuir****. kontarion (κοντάριον): a long spear (varied between 2.4 to 4 m (7.9 to 13.1 ft) in length), the kontarion was used by the first...
- of both hands to thrust. The Byzantine cavalry used lances (kontos or kontarion) almost exclusively, often in mixed formations of mounted archers and...
- of close combat. Their arms may have included a shorter version of the kontarion spear emplo**** by contemporary Byzantine heavy infantry. Ancient Macedonian...
- contus. The Roman contus was also wielded two-handed. The later Byzantine kontarion was used by Byzantine cataphracts, from c. 1100 it was used single-handed...
- the spathion. They would also have had a light wooden lance, known as a kontarion and a bow (toxarion) with forty arrows in a quiver, hung from a saddle...
- cavalry, made use of a spear, of varying length, usually referred to as a kontarion. Specialist infantry called menavlatoi used a heavy-shafted weapon called...