Noun:

शीर्षस्थानी,

dromons's Usage Examples:

accepted view is that the main developments which differentiated the early dromons from the liburnians, and that henceforth characterized Mediterranean galleys.

under Belisarius was transported to Africa by an invasion fleet of 92 dromons and 500 transports, beginning the Vandalic War, the first of the wars of.

used in the Indian Ocean basin, while the Byzantine-style sailing-rowing dromons and chelandions were used in the Mediterranean, but only for the purpose.

longships, and the fore-and-aft variety as early as the Mediterranean dromons of the Middle Ages.

and the Levant, the Arab rulers built ships highly similar to Byzantine dromons with the help of local Coptic shipwrights from former Byzantine naval bases.

They travelled in a fleet of 500 transports, escorted by ninety-two dromons.

In 949, Constantine launched a new fleet of 100 ships (20 dromons, 64 chelandia, and 10 galleys) against the Arab corsairs hiding in Crete.

The Byzantine dromons are rolling over the Rus" vessels and smashing their oars with their spurs.

Soon after conquering Egypt and the Levant, the Arab rulers built ships highly similar to Byzantine dromons with the help of local Coptic shipwrights from former Byzantine naval bases.

He commanded a fleet of 177 dromons with 43,000 men, and set the island"s capital, Chandax, under siege.

chronicler William of Tyre: 150 galleys, sixty horse-carriers and a dozen dromons specially constructed to carry siege engines.

In 960 Nikephoros Phokas was sent with a fleet of 1,000 dromons, 2,000 chelandia, and 308 transports (the entire fleet consisted of 27.

Biremes were galleys, galleasses, dromons, and small pleasure crafts called pamphyles.