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2 unusual facts about Legio II Parthica


Legio II Parthica

The legion was on the Tigris frontier in the middle of the 4th century, just before a major Roman defeat by the Persians in Singara, Mesopotamia.

If so, it evidently survived that disaster as a functioning unit, and avoided the subsequent pit-falls of over-identification with the rebellion of the Macrianii and Palmyra's bid for autonomy under Zenobia.



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