Trajan invaded Armenia /114 y/
1900 years Anniversaries of Emperor Trajan invaded Armenia
This is a publication for which I prepared during a year by collecting information about this II Parthian war Anniversaries. Of course I do not claim that I am exhaustive on the subject! I posted this historical facts refracted through my eyes of reenactor.
Bellum Batonianum /6-9 y/
"The Archaeology of RomanSouthern Pannonia"
(The state of research and selected problems in the Croatian part of the Roman province of Pannonia)
Edited by
Branka Migotti
Wilkes assumed that VII, VIII Augusta and XI legion could have been under the command of Caecina Severus at that time, while IV Scythica and V Macedonica came from the East, but not all authors agree with this opinion. There are even doubts as to whether Caecina Severus took allthree Moesian legions along on this campaign, and only two legions in Caecina’s and Plautius’s joint forces are assumed to have actually been Moesian.
IV Scythica was probably one of Caecina’s legions, because it seems to have been permanently stationed in Moesia during the ruleof Augustus.
V Macedonica and the VII legion were most probably transferred from Galatia under the command of Plautius Silvanus, but the question of the VIII and XI legion remains open. As for the VIII legion, depending on the author in question, it is assumed that it may have been stationed in Illyricum, Moesia, in the East, in northern Africa or Egypt, while the XI legion was most probably stationed in the Balkans at the time in question, but it is impossible to say exactly where. Plautius’s third legion (if the assumption on three Eastern legions is correct in the first place) could perhaps be the VIII legion, but it could also have been one of the 3 Moesian legions, together with the IV and XI...
HISTORY of LEGIO IIII SCYTHICA
Legio IIII Scythica: one of the Roman legions. Its title means 'the legion from Scythia'. It is possible that it also suggested that the soldiers were brave like the notorious Scythians.
This unit was founded by the triumvir Marc Antony in the years after 42. We do not know where it was first stationed. Syria is a possibility, and when this is correct, it is very likely that the fourth legion took part in Antony's ill-fated campaign against the Parthian empire.
In 31 BCE, Caesar's adopted son Octavian defeated Marc Antony at Actium. From now on, the Roman empire was ruled by one man, Octavian, who accepted the title of Augustus. From now on, the fourth legion was certainly active in Moesia, the region of the Lower Danube. The surname Scythica is attested during the reign of Augustus, and there was much heavy fighting in the years 29-27. The legion's base was probably at Viminacium (Kostolac in eastern Serbia).
LEGION XVIII LYBICAE Vexillum
