Legio V Macedonia: Rome’s last legion

[guy]

Here is a wonderful article on Legio V Macedonia, Rome’s longest-documented legio:

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The Legio V Macedonica was the longest-lived Roman Legion known to history, spanning around 680 years from 43 BC to around AD 636; the entire history of the Roman Empire in the Classical Era, through to the Middle Ages.

 

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/01/legio-v-macedonica-the-last-roman-legion/145686

 

Here’s a more in-depth article on the legion:

 

http://byzantinemilitary.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-last-roman-legion-legio-v-macedonica.html?m=1

 

 

 

Edited January 2, 2023 by guy