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    Legio I Italica ("First Italian Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded by emperor Nero on September 22, 66 (the date is attested by...
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    Legio III Italica ("Italian Third Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in 165 AD by the emperor Marcus Aurelius (r. AD 161–80) for...
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  • / Faventianus / (centurio) leg(ionis) I Ital(icae), 'Gaius Julius Faventianus, centurion of the Legio I Italica, (made) this offering to Gontia'. Lauren...
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  • The Legio IV Italica ("Italian Fourth Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army raised in AD 231 by emperor Alexander Severus. The legion remained...
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  • hastarius et tutel. Geta in 185 became legatus legionis or commander of Legio I Italica and afterwards a Proconsul of Sicily around 187/8. Between circa 188...
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    Paris 1998. Dyczek, Piotr. Amphorae from the barracks of Legio VIII Augusta and Legio I Italica in Novae. "Argentoratum - Strasbourg". www.argentoratum...
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    Pontica (under Diocletian), II Adiutrix, II Italica, legio II Parthica, III Italica, IIII Flavia, IIII Italica (under Alexander Severus), V Macedonica, VII...
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    later the camp was restored by a vexillatio of the Legio I Italica; it hosted a detachment of the Legio XI Claudia at the end of the 2nd century. The camp...
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    Scythians and Sarmatians. The garrison of Moesia Secunda included Legio I Italica and Legio XI Claudia, as well as auxiliary infantry units, cavalry units...
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    pp. 85-93, ISBN 978-606-654-181-7 Ammianus Marcellinus. 31.5.16 Oltean, I. A.; Hanson, W. S. (2017). "Conquest strategy and political discourse: new...
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  • end of the reign of Nero, when he became legate of the newly formed Legio I Italica at Lugdunum; this fact caused Birley to comment that "at sixty-two...
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    in stone during the reign of Trajan by vexillations of legions Legio I Italica and Legio XI Claudia. Although the original layout of the Trajanic fort...
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  • dispatched Caecina with a powerful army composed of XXI Rapax, V Alaudae, I Italica, and XXII Primigenia together with detachments from seven other legions...
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  • 138, then he was commissioned as legatus legionis or commander of Legio I Italica from c. 146 to c. 150. Crispinus was allocated Gallia Narbonensis,...
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    accountant in the governor's office. Maximinus was the commander of the Legio IV Italica when Severus Alexander was assassinated by his own troops in 235. The...
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    resulted in replacement by emperor Vespasian in 69–70 AD of Legio VIII Augusta by Legio I Italica, which stayed in Novae at least to the 430s. In 86 the province...
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    Roman colony was protected by a vexillatio of the Legio I Italica; it also hosted a detachment of the Legio XI Claudia at the end of the 2nd century. The...
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    in Europe for naming years. September 22 – Emperor Nero creates the Legio I Italica. He appoints Titus Flavius Vespasian as General of the army of Judea...
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    Trajan's middle name, Ulpius). Veterans of the VI Macedonica and the Legio I Italica Legions may have been settled here as shown by archaeology. The city...
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  • Iovia Legio I Isaura Sagittaria Legio I Italica Legio I Macriana liberatrix Legio I Maximiana Legio I Minervia Legio I Parthica 1st Legion Tercio "Great Captain...
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  • later the camp was restored by a vexillatio of the Legio I Italica: it hosted a detachment of the Legio XI Claudia at the end of the 2nd century. In this...
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  • However, that he was commissioned legatus legionis or commander of Legio I Italica (dated to c. 143–144), is unusual for a patrician by the mid-second...
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    vexillationes of Legio V Macedonica were detached here, at least until the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Then followed vexillationes of Legio I Italica. The civil...
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  • the years 117 and 120. He is next attested as military tribune of Legio I Italica, which was stationed at the time in Moesia; this is dated between the...
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    legions are known to have had a boar as their emblems – Legio I Italica, Legio X Fretensis and Legio XX Valeria Victrix. The Knocknagael Boar Stone is a well-known...
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  • from the Legio XI Claudia pia fidelis, Moesia); Secundani Italiciani (originally formed from the Legio II Italica, Africa); Tertiani Italica (originally...
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  • commander of legions: Legio I Italica in Moesia, and Legio III Augusta in Numidia; we know from other sources he commanded a Legio III in 132. Subsequently...
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    Latin inscriptions referring to the history of Troesmis, Legio V Macedonica and Legio I Italica. The research was continued by Gr. G Tocilescu, who destroyed...
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  • cavalry; Tacitus mentions this unit as present at Lugudunum with the Legio I Italica in early spring AD 69. Ronald Syme infers from this, and that Suburanus...
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  • than one legion -- which did not include Bruttianus. The first was Legio I Italica, which served in Trajan's Dacian Wars. During his command, Bruttianus...
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