Roman forces in Cappadocia

The Roman armed forces in Cappadocia ( Latin exercitus Cappadocicus ) consisted of the legions and auxiliary troops stationed in the Roman province of Cappadocia from 18/19 AD .

Legions

The following legions (or parts of them) were stationed at different times in the province of Cappadocia at the following locations:

• Melitene : the Legion XII Fulminata
• Satala : the legions XV Apollinaris and XVI Flavia company
• Trabzon : the I Pontica Legion

The Legio VIIII Hispana was transferred to the province under Antoninus Pius (138-161) and was destroyed in 161 in a battle against the Parthians .

Auxiliary troops

On military diplomas .. From the years 94 to 101 AD 4 are Alae and 14 cohorts listed for the province, but not all were stationed at the same time in the province:

Ala I Augusta Germaniciana Ala I Augusta Gemina Colonorum Ala II Claudia Gallorum Ala I Thracum Herculana Cohors I Apamenorum

Cohors I Augusta Civium Romanorum Cohors I Augusta Cyrenaica Cohors II Augusta Thracum Cohors I Bosporanorum Cohors I Claudia

Cohors II Claudia Cohors I Hispanorum Cohors II Hispanorum Cohors I Italica Cohors I Italica voluntariorum

Cohors I Ituraeorum Cohors I Raetorum Cohors III Sagittariorum

Arrian

In Arrian 's description of the forces he mobilized for his campaign against the Alans (ἔκταξις κατ᾽ Ἀλανῶν) around 135, 2 legions, 4 alae and 10 cohorts are listed:

Ala I Augusta Gemina Colonorum Ala II Gallorum Ala II Ulpia Auriana Ala I Ulpia Dacorum

Cohors Apula Cohors III Augusta Cyrenaica Cohors I Bosporanorum Cohors I Germanorum

Cohors I Italica voluntariorum Cohors I Ituraeorum Cohors I Numidarum Cohors I Raetorum

Cohors IV Raetorum Cohors III Ulpia Petraeorum Legio XII Fulminata Legio XV Apollinaris

Notitia dignitatum

In the Notitia dignitatum , the following units are listed under the command of the Dux Armeniae :

Ala prima Augusta Colonorum Ala Auriana Ala secunda Gallorum Ala castello Tablariensi constituta Ala prima Iovia felix Ala prima praetoria nuper constituta

Ala Rizena Ala Theodosiana Ala felix Theodosiana Ala prima felix Theodosiana Ala prima Ulpia Dacorum Cohors (in Mochora)

Cohors Apuleia civium Romanorum Cohors miliaria Bosporiana Cohors prima Claudia equitata Cohors miliaria Germanorum Cohors prima Lepidiana Cohors quarta Raetorum

Cohors prima Theodosiana Cohors tertia Ulpia miliaria Petraeorum Cohors secunda Valentiana Equites sagittarii Legio duodecima Fulminata Legio quintadecima Apollinaris

Classis Pontica

The classis Pontica was the Roman fleet for the Black Sea stationed in Trabzon .

See also

• List of Roman legions
• List of Roman auxiliary units

literature

• Jörg Scheuerbrandt : Exercitus. Tasks, organization and command structure of Roman armies during the imperial era. Dissertation, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg im Breisgau 2003/2004 ( PDF )
• Michael Alexander Speidel : The Development of the Roman Forces in Northeastern Anatolia. New evidence for the history of the exercitus Cappadocicus. , Special print from: MA Speidel, Heer und Herrschaft im Römischen Reich der Hohen Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart 2009, pp. 595–631 ( online )
• Werner Eck , Andreas Pangerl: The fourth diploma for the province of Galatia et Cappadocia, issued in the year 99 In: Journal for papyrology and epigraphy . Volume 192 (2014), pp. 238–246 ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Michael Alexander Speidel , The Development, pp. 595-596, 602-603, 607-620.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jörg Scheuerbrandt , Exercitus, pp. 60–65, 95 (PDF pp. 62–67, 97).
3. ↑ Werner Eck , Andreas Pangerl, Das vierte Diplom, pp. 238, 243–244.
4. ↑ Military diplomas of the years 94 ( RMM 7 ), 99 ( ZPE-192-238 ), 100 ( AE 2004, 1913 ) and 101 (unpublished)
5. ^ Notitia dignitatum in partibus Orientis XXXVIII ( online ).