Centuria
A military unit in Ancient Rome originally consisting of 100 soldiers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a Roman military unit. For other uses, see Centuria (disambiguation).
Centuria (Latin: [kɛn̪ˈt̪ʊria]; pl.: centuriae) is a Latin term (from the stem centum meaning one hundred) denoting military units originally consisting of 100 men. The size of the centuria changed over time, and from the first century BC through most of the imperial era the standard size of a centuria was 100 men. By the time of Roman Empire, ordo became a synonym of centuria (in the 4 BC it was used for a maniple).[1]
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