Legio XVI Flavia firma ("Steadfast Flavian Sixteenth Legion") was a

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of the

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. The legion was created by

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in 70 from the remains of the XVI ''Gallica'' (which had surrendered in the

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). The unit still existed in the 4th century, when it guarded the

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border and camped in Sura ( Syria). The emblem of the legion was a Pegasus, although earlier studies assumed it to have been a lion.For example,

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: ''Die römische Armee von Augustus zu Konstantin dem Großen'', Steiner, 1993, , p. 287. __NOTOC__

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