Comitatus: Encyclopedia - Comitatus

Comitatus can be: a Latin word meaning company or retinue or an armed group of men attached to a leader, or comes; in particular, the Roman late Imperial mobile army (see comitatenses units) in Europe's classical period and in the Middle Ages, a political term used in various meanings: see Comitatus (Classical meaning) in the Middle Ages, the Latin word for county in the sense of a territory under a count (Latin: comes") currently, in legal texts sometimes an alternative wor

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