hueste
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Hueste (in Spanish), hoste (in Portuguese/Galician), host (in Catalan) or ost (in French) was the designation, used in the Iberian Peninsula and France, during the Middle Ages, to refer to a group of armed men under the command of a prelado or rico-hombre, with the objective of executing expeditions or warfare. Huestes were initially drawn from the broader population, but later became more selective as combat skills became more specialized.
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It is catalogued under the topic Military history of Spain.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- army
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- different from
- Ober Ost
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Hueste (in Spanish), hoste (in Portuguese/Galician), host (in Catalan) or ost (in French) was the designation, used in the Iberian Peninsula and France, during the Middle Ages, to refer to a group of armed men under the command of a prelado or rico-hombre, with the objective of executing expeditions or warfare. Huestes were initially drawn from the broader population, but later became more selective as combat skills became more specialized.
== Etymology== The terms, in the several Iberian languages, come from the Latin hoste or hostis, meaning "the enemy".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hueste” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.