Legio I Armeniaca

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Painted shield of the Legio I Armeniaca in the early 5th century

The Legio I Armeniaca ("First Armenian Legion") was a legion of the Roman army that was dug up with its sister legion Legio II Armeniaca as legio ripensis and was stationed in the province of Armenia . The excavation may have taken place in the 3rd century.

In 363 the Legion took part in the Persian campaign of Emperor Julian .

In 382 the Legion was relocated to the troubled Roman province of Isauria . Matronianus, the Comes Isauriae , had the walls of the city of Anemurium reinforced with them.

In the early 5th century it is mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum as legio pseudocomitatensis under the supreme command of the magister militum per Orientem . The Pseudocomitatenses were in higher esteem than the border troops.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Grosse: Roman military history from Gallienus to the beginning of the Byzantine thematic constitution , Weidmann, Berlin 1920, p. 91.
  2. ↑ Jona Lendering: Legio I Armeniaca In: Livius.org (English)
  3. ^ Karl field: Barbarian citizens. The Isaurians and the Roman Empire (Millennium Studies), de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 978-311018899-8 , p. 156
  4. ↑ Notitia Dignitatum Or. VII .