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Published: 2011-01-10 21:43:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 35570; Favourites: 379; Downloads: 0
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Ps cs3. About 12 hours.Byzantine heavy cavalry, 11th century. This type of elite heavy cavalry was named "cataphract"which means fully armoured, in a way.
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Wow! Amazing work! Love it!
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Of course they were not 'true' cataphracts. That distinction belonged to the Persians. Like the Romans however, the Byzantines adopted the fighting styles, the weapons and armor, even the lifestyles of not only the Persian Dehgans but I can also see Gothic, Germanic and Vandal influences in this. 2000 years of flexibility.
Nicely done man.
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Wow wonderful work Byzantine history is so cool, and sadly over looked. You did a fantastic job with the armor and its details.
Hayley
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So true. People always think of Byzantine empire was stagnant. It lasted hundreds of years and considering all the chaos in the Western Roman Empire that was no mean feat.
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I couldn't agree more. I'm a history major at university and sadly I've never seen a Byzantine Empire course. I'm really surprised by this I mean there's so much there.
Hayley
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This is some amazing art. The helmet and mail coif along the the barding look especially accurate.
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If I could make a request, could you do one of the Byzantine Kavalorioi, their mounted archers/crossbowmen?
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lol...I wish I find the time my friend
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your very welcome
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actually my ancestors,the Bulgars onec fought guys similar to those it probaly was hard as hell to kill one of those 
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well...I guess
Brutal times for both byzantines and bulgars...
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yeah but afterall we managed to win and to make are own country Bulgaria
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finaly, someone else who knows what a cataphract is.
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It is a developement in cavalry warfare that came originaly from Parthans or SCythians, I think, passed on the Persians, and to Greece and beyond... Cultural diffusion of ideas.
I heard it was the base, the prototypal equipement for knights of europe. Maybe...
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Polu kali douleia file!
Mono mia paratirisi: o dikefalos aetos htan oikogenieakos thyreos tis dunasteias twn Palaiologwn kai xrisimopoiithike ws autokratoriko emblima meta to 1261 AD (anakatalipsi Kwn/polis apo Fragkous)
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S'eyxaristw poly!
Kai nai, exeis dikio gia ton aeto...apo ti viasyni na teleiwsw ithela na valw kati xaraktiristiko twn vyzantinwn...
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