decury
Sign in to saveIn Ancient Rome, a decury (Latin decuria, plural: decuriae) was a group of ten people, ranged under one chief, or commander, called a decurio.
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- Part of
- Turma
- Country
- Ancient Rome
- Military branch
- cavalry
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- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- position held by head of the organization
- decurion
- member count
- 10
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In Ancient Rome, a decury (Latin decuria, plural: decuriae) was a group of ten people, ranged under one chief, or commander, called a decurio.
In Roman cavalry a turma was divided into three decuries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “decury” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.