Talk:Cohort
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Why does this just redirect to "legion"? Now we can't have pages for anything about other uses of the word "cohort". Wiwaxia 17:38, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Original text ; a sub-division of the Roman infantry. Originally it was a sub-unit of a Roman legion, consisting of 480 men, itself divided in 6 centurias commanded each by a centurion. In the Imperial Roman auxiliary forces, there were individual cohorts of 500 (quingenaria), and 1000 (miliaria), as well as mixed infantry and cavalry units (cohors equitata) that existed in parallel.
- I can not find any listing that a cohort is 480 men. I do that it is 600 men like in this dictionary (http://www.vandale.nl/opzoeken/woordenboek/?zoekwoord=cohort). I have changed it. About that a cohort also can be 500 men I do not know that is true. --Walter 17:56, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
