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drom·ond

 (drŏm′ənd, drŭm′-)
n. Nautical
A large medieval sailing galley.
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman dromund, from Late Latin dromō, dromōn-, a kind of ship, from Late Greek dromōn, from Greek dromos, race.]
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dromond

(ˈdrɒmənd; ˈdrʌm-) or

dromon

n
(Nautical Terms) a large swift sailing vessel of the 12th to 15th centuries
[C13: from Anglo-French dromund, ultimately from Late Greek dromōn light swift ship, from dromos a running]
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In the medieval Mediterranean chronology of the post-late antique world, in which Rome is no longer viable and Constantinople has replaced it, the two main fighting vessels under consideration are the Byzantine dromon and the Arab shalandi, which made up the bulk of the official navies of the opposing powers.
Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant
Ruthy Gertwagen of Haifa University specializes in Venetian and Byzantine maritime history and contributed to Pryor's well-received compilation, Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades (Aldershot, 2006), while Elizabeth Jeffreys is a professor of Byzantine Greek at Oxford who collaborated with Pryor on his magisterial The Age of [DELTA]POM[OMEGA]N (Dromon): The Byzantine Navy ca 500-1204 (Leiden, 2006).
Ruthy Gertwagen and Elizabeth Jeffreys (eds), Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean. Studies in Honour of John Pryor
The rise of the Byzantine war galley known as the dromon (spelled with Greek letters in the book's title) has been seen as marking the transition from Roman to Byzantine maritime history, and its demise as marking the transition from the Early Middle Ages to the High Middle Ages.
The age of the dromon; the Byzantine navy ca. 500-1204. (reprint, 2006)

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