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Odaenathus led Roman units against the Persians, one of which was the III Cyrenica. In 273 AD the legion helped build roads in Jordan. [1] The later history of this unit is unclear, but the third Cyrenaican legion was still at Bostra at the beginning of the fifth century. [1]
Nero, Sestertius with countermark "X" of Legio X Gemina. Obv: Laureate bust right. Rev: Nero riding horse right, holding spear, DECVRSIO in exergue; S C across fields. This is a list of Roman legions, including key facts about each legion, primarily focusing on the Principate (early Empire, 27 BC – 284 AD) legions, for which there exists substantial literary, epigraphic and archaeological ...
The battalion was the third of several battalions to be made within the Legion, alongside the 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion, it was designated as a 'Special Purpose Battalion'. [ 9 ] It was reported by Grey Dynamics that many Latin American volunteers are common in the International Legion, notably Brazilian volunteers which are in the ...
Magas 276–250 BC; Berenice II (Queen) 258–246 BC, alongside a series of her co-rulers: Magas, Demetrius and a republican government; Demetrius the Fair 250–249 BC; Republican government 249–246 BC
The Third Legion can refer any of these Roman Legions: Legio III Augusta; Legio III Cyrenaica; Legio III Diocletiana; Legio III Gallica; Legio III Isaura; Legio III ...
Cyrenaica (/ ˌ s aɪ r ə ˈ n eɪ. ɪ k ə ˌ ˌ s ɪr-/ SY-rə-NAY-ik-ə-,-SIRR-ə) or Kyrenaika (Arabic: برقة, romanized: Barqah, Koinē Greek: Κυρηναϊκή [ἐπαρχία], romanized: Kūrēnaïkḗ [eparkhíā], after the city of Cyrene), is the eastern region of Libya.
Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa.It was part of the Pentapolis, an important group of five cities in the region, and gave the area its classical and early modern name Cyrenaica.
The third major source for the late army is the corpus of imperial decrees published in the East Roman empire in the 5th and 6th centuries: the Theodosian code (438) and the Corpus Juris Civilis (528–39). These compilations of Roman laws dating from the 4th century contain numerous imperial decrees relating to all aspects of the regulation ...