Legio I Parthica (Latin for "1st Parthian Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in AD 197 by the emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193–211)...

Legio II Parthica ("Parthian-conquering Second Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in AD 197 by the emperor Septimius Severus (r...

Legio III Parthica ("Parthian-conquering Third Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in AD 197 by the emperor Septimius Severus (r....

Romans as an advanced colony against the Persians. It was the camp of legio I Parthica. Its position south-east of Nisibis was indifferently defined by ancient...

Ammianus Marcellinus, Primus Flavia Constantia was stationed with Legio I Parthica in Singara until 360, when the city was conquered by Shapur II of the...

Legio II Armeniaca (from Armenia) was a legion of the late Roman Empire. This legion may have been garrisoned in the Roman province of Armenia, but later...

hence its other cognomen, Parthica. The legion was still active in the Roman province of Syria in the early 5th century. The Legio IV Scythica was founded...

others from the Danube and other western regions such as: I Adiutrix, II Adiutrix, II Parthica? (or was already present on the eastern front, at Apamea)...

Aurelius, VI, 2.1. In addition, some detachments of the Roman army (Legio I Parthica and Cohors IX Maurorum [Gordiana]) were left at Hatra. 231 Emperor...

Legio IX Hispana ("9th Hispanian Legion"), also written as Legio VIIII Hispana, was a legion of the Imperial Roman army that existed from the 1st century...

Sasanian invasion, remnants of the Roman army, including units from the Legio I Parthica and the Cohors IX Maurorum Gordiana, became stationed near Hatra. A...

Aquileia, where he was assassinated by disaffected elements of the Legio II Parthica. Maximinus is described by several ancient sources, though only Herodian's...

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...

magister equitum, Ursicinus. From 360 to 363, Nisibis was the camp of Legio I Parthica. Because of its strategic importance on the Persian border, Nisibis...

Magister Peditum command in Italy Legio IV IV Italica IV Martia IV Parthica Legio V V Iovia (maybe the Jovians) V Parthica Legio VI VI Gemella VI Gallicana VI...

Legio II Flavia Virtutis ("brave Flavian") was a comitatensis Roman legion, levied by Emperor Constantius II (337–361), together with I Flavia Pacis and...

Severan period reads: duci exercitus Illyrica expeditione Asiana item Parthica item Gallica, ’Leader of the Illyrican army on the Asian, Parthian and...

from famine and disease, while the city is besieged. Soldiers of Legio II Parthica kill him in his tent, along with his son Maximinus (who is appointed...

supported by I Isaura Sagittaria. According to Ammianus Marcellinus, in 360, they were stationed in Bezabde with II Armeniaca, and II Parthica, when the...

Legio VI Hispana ("Sixth (Hispanian) Legion") may have been a legion of the Imperial Roman army. Only a few records attesting a "VI Hispana" were known...

337–361 Belligerents Roman Empire Sasanian Empire Commanders and leaders Constantius II Shapur II Strength Legio I Parthica Legio I Flavia Constantia...

embark on an artificial canal between the Tigris and Euphrates. Legio I, II, and III Parthica are levied by Septimius Severus for his Parthian campaign. The...

city. After four weeks, Maximinus' demoralized army mutinied and the Legio II Parthica murdered him. The situation for Pupienus and Balbinus, despite Maximinus'...

The Imperial Roman Army, pp. 19-35. The reserve would include the Legio II Parthica. Although Septimius Severus may not have used it as a reserve, his...

Aulus Trebicius Gaudinus, prefect of an ala, or cavalry wing, in the Legio I Parthica at Bostra in Arabia Petraea. Trebicia, the owner of an estate from...

In Bezabde the Armenian Second Legion served together with the Legions Parthica and II Flavia. In 390 AD Bezabde was taken by the Persian army, and a terrible...

November 312—barely two weeks after Constantine captured the city. The Legio II Parthica was removed from Albano Laziale, and the remainder of Maxentius' armies...

a province on the frontier it had a Roman legion stationed there, Legio III Parthica and its Castrum (homebase) was Resaena though there are some doubts...

Minervia, I Pontica (under Diocletian), II Adiutrix, II Italica, legio II Parthica, III Italica, IIII Flavia, IIII Italica (under Alexander Severus)...

sixth cohort. Simplicinius Victor, a centurion in the Legio I Minervia and Legio III Parthica, was buried at Bonna in Germania Inferior, in a tomb dedicated...