Comitatus

Comitatus

Comitatus (Latin for company, armed group) may refer to:

  • Comes, a Latin word with similar meaning
  • Comitatenses, the Roman late Imperial mobile army
  • Comitatus (classical meaning), a political term used in various meanings, in Europe's classical period and in the Middle Ages
  • County, in the Middle Ages, in the sense of a territory under a count — also used sporadically in present-day legal texts
  • a Hungarian administrative unit:
  • an administrative unit in the First Bulgarian Empire ruled by a komita and further subdivided into several zhupi, each ruled by a zhupan. Also comitat or komitat.

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  • COMITATUS — Aula Imperatoria, Palatium, locus ubi Imperator morabatur, seu, ut definit Anianus, ad leg. 20. Cod. Theodos. de Decurion. Ubi rerum Domini fuerint: a Comitibus dictus, h. e. Curiae Proceribus, seu Amicis interioribus. Sic enim novum Comitem… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • Comitātus — (lat.), 1) Begleitung, Gefolge; 2) Suite des Kaisers, der Hof, auch das Hoflager; daher Comitatenses, die Mitglieder des Gefolges; 3) Würde eines Comes (s.d.); 4) so v. w. Comitat …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Comitātus — (lat.), Begleitung, Gefolge; auch Würde eines Comes (s.d. und Komitat) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Comitatus — Comitātus (lat.), s. Komitat …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Comitatus —   [lateinisch] der, / , das Grafenamt, später (etwa seit dem 7. Jahrhundert) auch die Grafschaft, der Amtsbezirk eines fränkischen Comes (Graf).   …   Universal-Lexikon

  • comitatus — Latin collective of comes, comitem companion (see COUNT (Cf. count) (n.)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Comitatus — À partir du IVe siècle, l armée romaine subit de profondes transformations. Les changements apportés par Gallien et par Dioclétien, sont amplifiés sous le règne de Constantin. L armée de campagne constituée prend le nom de comitatus (du… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • comitatus — ▪ ancient Roman military organization       (Latin: “retinue”), in ancient Republican Rome, an elite company of one of the army commanders. A comitatus was formed in the assembly when one of the leading men announced that he needed followers to… …   Universalium

  • Comitatus — 1) Latin word = company, used to refer to the close companions of a lord or king. The usage is a 19c reapplication of the word comitatus, taken from the description in Germania by Tacitus (d. 120) of the Germanic warrior band loyal to their lord …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • Comitatus — Die ungarischen Komitate von 1867 bis 1918 Die aktuellen ungarischen Komitate Komitat ist eine deutsche Bezeichnung für die regionalen Verwaltungseinheiten …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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