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ARTICLES RELATED TO Byzantine navy - Ships | | | |  Byzantine navy - Ships: Encyclopedia II - Byzantine navy - ShipsLiterary sources and accounts reveal that there were at least three varieties of dromon. These were, firstly the ousiakooo which took its name from one company or ousia of one hundred men. This was a two-banked galley with the lower rank rowing only, and the upper rank rowing or disengaging to fight when required. Secondly the slightly larger pamphylos with a crew of between 120-160. Thirdly the dromon proper, which had a crew of two hundred, fifty on the lower bank, and one hundred on the upper bank in two files, together with fifty marines.
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| | | | Byzantine navy - Ships: Encyclopedia II - Byzantine navy - Greek fire Main article: Greek fire
The term “Greek fire” was not attributed to the concoction until the time of the European Crusades. Some of the original names it was known by include “liquid fire”, “marine fire”, “artificial fire” and “Roman fire”. The latter was most probably due to the fact that the Muslims (against whom the weapon was most commonly used) believed the Byzantines to be Roman rather than Greek. Of course, politically speaking, the Byzantine Empire was a direct continuation of the East Roman Empire ...
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