period as well. From the Tetrarchic period an entire Roman legion, Legio I Pontica, was installed here for greater protection of the coast. Another important...

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barbarian invasions: I Adiutrix, I Illyricorum (recruited under Aurelian), I Italica, I Maximiana (under Maximian), I Minervia, I Pontica (under Diocletian)...

formed another legion, legio II Adiutrix, from their ranks. Only in the Pontus did Anicetus, the commander of the Classis Pontica, support Vitellius. He...

Cahors) in Gaul. Next he served as a praetor, afterwards commanding the Legio V Macedonica which was stationed in Troesmis in Moesia Inferior on the lower...

created a new fleet in the Pontus Euxinus (now Black Sea), the Classis Pontica, also using ships that had belonged to the former kingdom of Thrace, annexed...

temple of Zeus Polieus 560 BC – Megara founds Heraclea Pontica Callatis founded by Heraclea Pontica, itself a colony of Megara c. 550 BC – Agathyrsi, a Thraco-Scythian...

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...

Zeugma, and minted its own coinage. It was the base of the Roman legion Legio X Fretensis. The Sassanid Persian Empire took it several times during the...

Ptolemy as an important city center, in 113 BC, in Roman times housed the Legio Pontica. In Byzantine times it was the seat of a bishopric and the patron saint...

Moskon in the collections of the Archaeological Museum at Constantza), în Pontica 3 (1970), p. 125-128. Kurt W. Treptow and Ioan Bolovan in "A history of...

according to chronicler George Syncellus, he was killed near Heraclea Pontica in Bithynia. The transfer of power seems to have been smooth, since Syncellus...

Pontica (1), Oriens (6) and Aegyptum (2). The eastern structure as presented in the Notitia remained largely intact until the reign of Justinian I (525-65)...

administered by former consuls who commanded two Roman legions, the Legio V Macedonica and the Legio I Italica. The region flourished under Antoninus Pius who had...

stationed at the Capidava fort were: Legio XI Claudia Legio I Italica Legio II Herculia Cohors I Germanorum Cohors I Ubiorum The ruins at Capidava were...

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...

the Caucasus and the Euxine. Probably it was Trajan who placed there the Legio XV Apollinaris and began the construction of the great castra stativa (permanent...