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    Legio XII Fulminata ("Thunderbolt Twelfth Legion"), also known as Paterna, Victrix, Antiqua, Certa Constans, and Galliena, was a legion of the Imperial...
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    IVLIVS MAXIMVS LEGIONIS XII FVL, (Under imperator Domitian, Caesar, Augustus Germanicus, Lucius Julius Maximus, Legio XII Fulminata). Some historians argue...
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    the First Jewish–Roman War. During the event, the Syrian Legion Legio XII Fulminata with auxiliary support headed by Legate of Syria Cestius Gallus was...
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    Secundus in 41). 66 – First Jewish–Roman War. Legio XII Fulminata (fate uncertain). 70 – destruction of Legio XV Primigenia during the Revolt of the Batavi...
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    legate of Syria, Cestius Gallus, assembled a force including the Legio XII Fulminata and auxiliary troops from regional vassals, devastating Jewish settlements...
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    cohorts of Legio V Macedonica, cohorts of Legio XI Claudia, cohorts of Legio XII Fulminata and cohorts of Legio IV Flavia Felix, along with 30–50 auxiliary...
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    Τεσσαράκοντα; Demotic: Άγιοι Σαράντα) were a group of Roman soldiers in the Legio XII Fulminata (Armed with Lightning) whose martyrdom in the year 320 AD for the...
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    Augustus Legio XII Fulminata (Thunderbolt): 57 BC – AD 45, Julius Caesar, first reconstituted by Lepidus in 43 BC, named by Mark Antony as Legio XII Antiqua...
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  • Camp"). Marcus Aurelius officially confers the title Fulminata ("Thundering") to the Legio XII Fulminata. Reign in India of Yajnashri Satakarni, Satavahana...
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  • Domitian, and again in 129. He served as a military tribune with the Legio XII Fulminata. He is the first person attested to have held the position of recorder...
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    inscription close to Boyukdash mountain in Gobustan, Baku, which mentions Legio XII Fulminata, is the world's easternmost Latin inscription known. In Albania,...
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    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...
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  • lightning bolt insignia of some units of the Roman army. Shields of the Legio XII Fulminata showed the spread fires of trident-shaped lightning bolts (Latin:...
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    Danube in Durostorum (modern Silistra, Bulgaria). Legio XI Claudia, along with Legio XII Fulminata, was a Roman Legion levied by Julius Caesar in 58 BC...
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    governor of Syria, led X Fretensis and III Gallica, VI Ferrata, and XII Fulminata in suppressing the revolt that sprung out after the deposition of Herod...
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    column of Marcus Aurelius and on coins. According to Cassius Dio, the legio XII Fulminata was hemmed in by a superior Quadi force and almost forced to surrender...
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    early Nisan 70 (March/April), Titus departed from Caesarea with Legio XII Fulminata and Legio XV Apollinaris, marching toward Jerusalem. His army advanced...
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    army of 30,000 men to put down the Jewish rebellion. At its core is Legio XII Fulminata, plus 2,000 selected men from the other three Syrian legions, six...
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    which he occupied himself, along with the Eleventh (Legio XI Claudia) and Twelfth (Legio XII Fulminata) legions and all his auxiliaries. His baggage train...
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  • a song by Valensia from Valensia II (also known as K.O.S.M.O.S) Legio XII Fulminata, a Roman legion named for the Latin word for Thunderbolt 11th Armored...
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    of the fourth century, he would likely have been a member of the Legio XII Fulminata. His cult was already developed in Turin, Italy, in the Middle Ages...
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  • arises in 66 CE, when he participated in crushing Cestius Gallus' Legio XII Fulminata at Beit-Horon. Yet prior to this encounter, little is known about...
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  • Jewish-Roman War. As assembled at Antioch, Gallus' army comprised Legio XII Fulminata, detachments from the three other legions based in Syria, six cohorts...
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    MAXIMVS CENTVRIO LEG XII FVL (To Imp(erator) Domitianus Caesar Aug(ustus) Germanicus, (by) Lucius Julius Maximus, Centurion of Leg(ion) XII Ful(minata).) Because...
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    seems to have been the base camp of the 12th Roman legion, Legio XII Fulminata, as well as of Legio III Gallica. Media related to Raphana at Wikimedia Commons...
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    Cestius Gallus, legate of Syria, brought the Syrian army, based on Legio XII Fulminata, reinforced by auxiliary troops, to restore order in Judaea and quell...
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    under Valerian. He and his friend Nearchus were members of the Legio XII Fulminata, based in Melitene. Certain historical inaccuracies suggest that...
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    possibly founded by the Roman troops of Lucius Julius Maximus from Legio XII Fulminata in c. 84-96 AD, and may derive its name from the Latin Romana. Among...
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  • army Legio I Minervia Legio X Gemina Legio XI Claudia Legio IV Macedonica Legio XIV Gemina Legio VI Ferrata Legio XII Fulminata Legio IV Scythica Legio X...
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    Superior, Lucius Antonius Saturninus, and his two legions at Mainz, Legio XIV Gemina and Legio XXI Rapax, revolted against the Roman Empire with the aid of the...
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