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Tagma (military)
Military unit of the Byzantine Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the military unit. For the biological term, see tagma (biology).
The tagma (Greek: τάγμα; pl.: tagmata, τάγματα) is a military unit of battalion or regiment size, especially the elite regiments formed by Byzantine emperor Constantine V and comprising the central army of the Byzantine Empire in the 8th–11th centuries.