{"id":107694,"date":"2022-07-06T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?page_id=107694"},"modified":"2022-07-17T20:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T18:30:06","slug":"ala-roman-cavalry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/units-of-roman-army\/ala-roman-cavalry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ala &#8211; Roman cavalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ala<\/em> meaning literally &#8220;wing&#8221; was a Roman military term, originally meaning only the wing <a title=\"Roman army combat chords\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wojsko\/formacje-wojskowe-antycznych-rzymian\/szyki-bojowe-marszowe-antycznych-rzymian\/\">formation combat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/\">Roman Republic<\/a>, <em>ala<\/em> consisted of allied infantry in the strength of a <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/units-of-roman-army\/roman-legion\/\">legion<\/a> divided into cohorts and cavalry of 300 soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-empire\/\">Roman Empire<\/a>, between the 1st and 4th centuries CE, <em>ala<\/em> it was an independent unit of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/units-of-roman-army\/roman-cavalry\/\">Roman cavalry<\/a>. There were then: <b>ala thousandth<\/b> (<em>ala milliariae<\/em>) consisting of about 1,000 riders divided into 24 <b>turmae<\/b> 42 riders each, and <em>ala<\/em> five hundred (<em>ala quinquenariae<\/em>) with approximately 500 riders divided into 16 turmae of 30 riders.<\/p>\n<p>The term <em>ala<\/em> also meant any units of <a title=\"Auxilia-auxiliary military\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wojsko\/jednostki-armii-rzymskiej\/auxilia\/\">auxiliary troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ala meaning literally &#8220;wing&#8221; was a Roman military term, originally meaning only the wing formation combat. During the Roman Republic, ala consisted of allied infantry in the strength of a legion divided into cohorts and cavalry of 300 soldiers. During the Roman Empire, between the 1st and 4th centuries CE, ala it was an independent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52700,"parent":50395,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107694","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107694\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}