Cohors
rima
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Hispanorum
uingenaria peditatapia fidelis ("
st infantry 500 strongcohort of
Hispani, dutiful and loyal") was a
Roman auxiliary
The (, lit. "auxiliaries") were introduced as non-citizen troops attached to the citizen Roman legion, legions by Augustus after his reorganisation of the Imperial Roman army from 30 BC. By the 2nd century, the Auxilia contained the same ...
infantry regiment. The cohort was stationed in
Dacia
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at
castra Largiana.
See also
*
Cohors I Flavia Ulpia Hispanorum miliaria eq c.R.
*
List of Roman auxiliary regiments
This article lists ', non-legionary auxiliary regiments of the imperial Roman army, attested in the epigraphic record, by Roman province of deployment during the reign of emperor Hadrian ( AD 117–138).
The index of regimental names explai ...
References
* Academia Română: Istoria Românilor, Vol. 2, Daco-romani, romanici, alogeni, 2nd. Ed., București, 2010,
* Constantin C. Petolescu: Dacia - Un mileniu de istorie, Ed. Academiei Române, 2010,
* Petru Ureche: Tactică, strategie și specific de luptă la cohortele equitate din Dacia Romană
Military of ancient Rome
Auxiliary peditata units of ancient Rome
Roman Dacia
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