Editing Indiction (section)

{{short description|Any of the years in a 15-year cycle used to date medieval documents throughout Europe}}
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An '''indiction''' ({{langx|la|indictio}}, impost) was a periodic reassessment of taxation in the [[Roman Empire]] which took place every fifteen years. In [[Late Antiquity]], this 15-year cycle began to be used to date documents and it continued to be used for this purpose in [[Medieval]] Europe,<ref>{{Cite web|title=indiction|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indiction|access-date=2020-08-07|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en|archive-date=2021-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420103912/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indiction|url-status=live}}</ref> and can also refer to an individual year in the cycle; for example, "the fourth indiction" came to mean the fourth year of the current indiction. Since the cycles themselves were not numbered, other information is needed to identify the specific year.