Salvete commilitones...!!
...and allow me to introduce the first electronic copy of my FileManager Legion database ever to be seen outside the U.S. Dept. of Veterans' Affairs! (I've been sharing printouts.)
<-----[ THE IMPERIAL ROMAN LEGIONS and their Movements ]----->
from the Reign of Augustus (d. 14AD) to that of Septimius Severus (d. 235AD)
flaming supersonic Pilum ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ =========[)-------`~+ )))))))))
Legend: SUP. = 'Superior' (upriver part of a Rhine/Danube Province)
............ INF. = 'Inferior' (downriver portion of same)
............ ~ = 'about', 'around then'; indicates approximate date
............ poss. = 'possibly'
[Notes:]
I will always spell out the Province in which a Legion was first stationed. After that, I will specify the city, but not the Province again unless it differs from the last assignment. I list the Province by itself when the city is unknown.
If a city-and-Province have already been mentioned together once, and the city occurs again in that entry, I won't repeat the Province; it is assumed that the city hadn't moved. >({|;-)
If I don't list something (like which Emperor ordered a movement), it's because I don't know.
'AD': I'm not particularly attached to this designation, but it's what I'm used to. Feel free to change it to CE, AUC, ATC, or whatever else you like on your copy.
Okay, here ya go--! (May the formatting not be munched.)
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The original AUGUSTAN LEGIONS:
I Germanica, Bonna, GERMANIA INFERIOR
-- [disbanded by Vespasian after Civilis' revolt, AD 70]
II Augusta, Argentoratum, GERMANIA SUPERIOR
-- [Durnovaria, BRITANNIA by Claudius, AD 43; to Glevum in AD 67 by Nero; settled at Isca Silurum by Vespasian, AD 75]
III Augusta, Thamugadi, NUMIDIA
-- [to Lambaesis by Trajan, ~ AD 112]
III Cyrenaica, Alexandria, AEGYPTUS
-- [to Bostra, ARABIA by Hadrian, ~ AD 117]
III Gallica, Raphaneae, SYRIA
-- [to MOESIA in AD 68, poss. by Galba; back at Raphaneae in AD 69, poss. by Vespasian]
IV Macedonica, Legio, HISPANIA TARRAGONENSIS
-- [to Moguntiacum, GERMANIA SUP. by Claudius, AD 43; disbanded by Vespasian, AD 70]
IV Scythica, Viminacium, MOESIA SUPERIOR
-- [to Cyrrhus, SYRIA by Nero, AD 57]
V Alaudae, Vetera, GERMANIA INFERIOR
-- [lost in DACIA by Domitian, 86 AD]
V Macedonica, Oescus, MOESIA INFERIOR
-- [in IUDAEA for Nero, AD 61; to Iglita, MOESIA INF. by Vespasian, AD 71; back to Iglita by Trajan in 101, having corked off somewhere else in-between; to Potaissa, DACIA by Marcus Aurelius, AD 168]
VI Ferrata, Raphaneae, SYRIA
-- [to Samasota by Vespasian, AD 72; to Bostra, ARABIA by Trajan, AD 106; to Lejjun, IUDAEA by Hadrian ~ AD 138]
VI Victrix, Legio, HISPANIA TARRAGONENSIS
-- [to Novaesium, GERMANIA INF. by Vespasian, AD 69; settled at Eburacum, BRITANNIA by Hadrian, AD 122]
VII Claudia, Tilurium, DALMATIA
-- [to Viminacium, MOESIA SUP. by Nero in AD 57]
VIII Augusta, Poetovio, PANNONIA SUPERIOR
-- [to Novae in MOESIA INF. under Claudius, AD 45; to Argentoratum, GERMANIA SUP. by Vespasian, AD 70]
IX Hispana, Siscia, PANNONIA SUPERIOR
-- [to Ratae, BRITANNIA by Claudius, AD 43; to Lindum Coloniae by Claudius in AD 50; to Eburacum by Vespasian, AD 71; to Noviomagus, GERMANIA INF. by Hadrian, AD 122; to Jerusalem, IUDAEA, poss. by Hadrian, ~ AD 131; lost either there or in ARMENIA, poss. by Marcus Aurelius, ~ AD 161]
X Fretensis, Cyrrhus, SYRIA
-- [to Jerusalem, IUDAEA by Vespasian, AD 68]
X Gemina, Legio, HISPANIA TARRAGONENSIS
-- [to Carnutum, PANNONIA SUP. by Nero, AD 63; back to Legio, poss. by Galba, AD 68; to Noviomagus, GERMANIA INF. by Vespasian, AD 71; to Vindobona, PANNONIA SUP. by Trajan, AD 105]
XI Claudia, Burnum, DALMATIA
-- [to Vindonissa, GERMANIA SUP. by Vespasian, AD 70; to Novae, MOESIA INF. by Trajan, AD 105]
XII Fulminata, Raphaneae, SYRIA
-- [to Melitene, CAPPADOCIA by Vespasian, AD 70]
XIII Gemina, Vindonissa, GERMANIA SUPERIOR
-- [to Poetovio, PANNONIA SUP. by Claudius, AD 45; to Vindobona by Domitian, AD 85; to Apulum, DACIA by Trajan, AD 105]
XIV Gemina, Moguntiacum, GERMANIA SUPERIOR
-- [to Letocetum, BRITANNIA by Claudius, AD 44; to Viroconium by Nero, AD 56; back to Moguntiacum by Nero, AD 67; possibly in Lugdunum, GALLIA by AD 68; to Aquincum, PANNONIA INF. ~ AD 69; to Carnutum, PANNONIA SUP. by Trajan, AD 106]
XV Apollinaris, Carnutum, PANNONIA SUPERIOR
-- [to IUDAEA by Nero, ~ AD 62; back to Carnutum by Vespasian, ~ AD 71; to Satala, CAPPADOCIA by Trajan, AD 114]
XVI Gallica, Moguntiacum, GERMANIA SUPERIOR
-- [to Novaesium, GERMANIA INF. by Claudius, AD 43; disbanded by Vespasian in AD 70]
XVII Legio
-- [lost at Teutoburger Wald, Germania Libera, AD 9]
XVIII Legio
-- [lost at Teutoburger Wald, Germania Libera, AD 9]
XIX Legio
-- [lost at Teutoburger Wald, Germania Libera, AD 9]
XX Valeria Victrix, Novaesium, GERMANIA INFERIOR
-- [to Camulodonum, BRITANNIA by Claudius, AD 43; to Glevum by Claudius, AD 48; to Viroconium by Nero, AD 67; to Pinnata Castra by Domitian, AD 84; settled at Deva by Domitian, AD 88]
XXI Rapax, Vetera, GERMANIA INFERIOR
-- [to Vindonissa, GERMANIA SUP. by Claudius, AD 43; to Bonna, GERMANIA INF. by Vespasian, AD 70; to Moguntiacum, GERMANIA SUP. by Domitian, ~ AD 85; lost in DACIA by Domitian, AD 92]
XXII Deiotariana, Alexandria, AEGYPTUS
-- [lost in IUDAEA by Hadrian, AD 134]
Legions raised by GAIUS ('Caligula'):
XV Primigenia, Vetera, GERMANIA INFERIOR
-- [disbanded by Vespasian, AD 70]
XXII Primigenia, Moguntiacum, GERMANIA SUPERIOR
-- [to Vetera, GERMANIA INF. by Vespasian, AD 70; back to Moguntiacum by Domitian, AD 85]
by NERO:
I Italica, Novae, MOESIA INFERIOR
-- [never moved]
I Adiutrix, Moguntiacum, GERMANIA SUPERIOR
-- [to Danube front by Domitian, AD 85; to DACIA by Trajan, AD 112; settled at Brigetio, PANNONIA INF. by Hadrian, ~ AD 117]
by GALBA:
VII Gemina, Legio, HISPANIA TARRAGONENSIS
-- [to PANNONIA in AD 69, poss. by Vespasian; back to Legio by Vespasian, AD 71]
by VESPASIAN:
II Adiutrix, Lindum Colonia, BRITANNIA
-- [to Deva by Vespasian, AD 78; to Danube front by Domitian, AD 88; to Aquincum, PANNONIA INF. by Trajan, AD 105]
IV Flavia, Burnum, DALMATIA
-- [to Danube front by Domitian, AD 85; settled at Singidunum, MOESIA SUP. by Hadrian, AD 138]
XVI Flavia, Satala, CAPPADOCIA
-- [to Samasota, SYRIA by Hadrian, ~ AD 117]
and by DOMITIAN:
I Minervia, Bonna, GERMANIA INFERIOR
-- [never moved]
TRAJAN'S LEGIONS:
II Traiana, SYRIA
-- [to Alexandria, AEGYPTUS (poss. by Hadrian), ~ AD 117]
XXX Ulpia Traiana, Vetera, GERMANIA INFERIOR
-- [to PANNONIA by Trajan, NLT AD 112; back to GERMANIA INF. by AD 215]
MARCUS AURELIUS:
II Italica, Lauriacum, NORICUM
-- [never moved]
III Italica, Castra Regina, RAETIA
-- [never moved]
The SEVERAN LEGIONS:
I Parthica, Singara, MESOPOTAMIA
-- [at Nisibis by AD 251]
II Parthica, Albanum, ITALIA
-- [never moved]
III Parthica, Resaina, MESOPOTAMIA
-- [never moved]
The key to really getting a lot out of this information is to be aware of which Emperors were prosecuting what wars at any given time. Most of the Legions got shuffled around in AD 70, for example, and a few on the Rhine got dismissed. If one realizes that this was the aftermath of the Year of Four Emperors, this begins to make sense. The Revolt of Civilis, which took place concurrently, saw some of the Rhine Legions make a pact with the rebel chieftain in order to save their scrawny hides. These were the units that got discharged en masse by Vespasian when the dust settled. ...Stuff like that.
Hope ya find this useful--or at least decorative! >({|:-D
Yours under the Eagles,