Centena

Japanese: centena
Centena

...The old theory holds that it was an autonomous political organization at the very bottom of the Germanic state, which became a combat unit of 100 soldiers in wartime and functioned as a judicial body under an elected chief in peacetime, and that it continued to exist as a subordinate organization of the Grafschaft (Graf) during the Frankish period. In contrast, the new theory denies the existence of a Germanic Hundertschaft, and considers that the Frankish one was a continuation of the centena (a military colonial organization established in a border area) from the end of Rome. [Takayuki Hirajo]...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "centena" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…旧説は,戦時には100人の兵士を供出する戦闘単位となり,平時には選挙された長の下に裁判団体として機能するゲルマン人の国家内部の最末端の自治的政治組織であり,フランク王国時代にも,グラーフシャフト(グラーフ)の下部組織として存続したと考える。これに対し新説は,ゲルマン的フンデルトシャフトの存在を否定し,フランク王国時代のそれは,ローマ末期のケンテナcentena(辺境地域に置かれた軍事的植民の組織)を踏襲したものとみなしている。【平城 照介】。…

※「centena」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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