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What is the term for the military formation which the byzantine empire copied from the Roman Empire?

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Answer: The comitatenses of the old Roman field armies. In Justinian's day these were more commonly called stratiotai. Regular soldiers of the early Byzantine army, the stratiotai were chiefly recruited from subjects of the empire.

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