Legio I Illyricorum

This Legio I Ilyricorum was founded by the Roman Emperor Aurelian.{{Cite book|last=Hebblewhite|first=Mark|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-jglDwAAQBAJ&dq=Legio+I+Illyricorum&pg=PA193|title=The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235-395|date=2016-12-19|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-03430-8|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Syvänne|first=Ilkka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8nD1DwAAQBAJ&dq=Legio+I+Illyricorum&pg=PA276|title=Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome|date=2020-06-24|publisher=Pen and Sword Military|isbn=978-1-5267-6753-0|language=en}} The legion was made up entirely of soldiers who lived near the Danube river.{{cite book |last1=Pollard |first1=Nigel |title=Soldiers, Cities, and Civilians in Roman Syria |date=2000 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-11155-8 }}{{pn|date=April 2022}}{{Cite web|title=Legio I Illyricorum - Livius|url=https://www.livius.org/articles/legion/legio-i-illyricorum/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=www.livius.org}} In either 272 or 273 the legion would fight under Aurelian against the Palmyrene Empire.{{Cite book|last=Intagliata|first=Emanuele|title=Palmyra after Zenobia|publisher=Oxbow|year=2018|isbn=|location=|pages=}} After the defeat of the Palmyrene Empire the legion remained in the east. They were based in Qasr el-Azraq and garrisoned Palmyra.{{Cite book|last=Merrony|first=Mark|title=The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century A.D|publisher=Routledge|year=2017|isbn=|location=New York|pages=}} The purpose of the legion was to prevent any more uprisings. During Diocletian's and Galerius' reigns the legion was transferred to the Camp of Diocletian near Palmyra.{{cite journal |last1=Speidel |first1=M. P. |title=The Roman Road to Dumata (Jawf in Saudi Arabia) and the Frontier Strategy of Praetensione Colligare |journal=Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte |date=1987 |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=213–221 |jstor=4436005 }}{{Cite book|last=Whately|first=Conor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrY0EAAAQBAJ&dq=Legio+I+Illyricorum&pg=PA296|title=Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire|date=2021-06-22|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-46161-1|language=en}} During the reign of emperor Licinius soldiers from the I Illyricorum would be transferred to Egypt and Cyrene. The commander of the soldiers at the time was Victorinus. Later, the Legion was transferred back to Palmyra. Sometime in the third century a unit of Moorish cavalry from the I Illyricorum would replace the Legio X Fretensis in Eilat.{{Cite book|last1=Lemire|first1=Vincent|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xglQEAAAQBAJ&dq=Legio+I+Illyricorum&pg=PA54|title=Jerusalem: History of a Global City|last2=Berthelot|first2=Katell|last3=Loiseau|first3=Julien|last4=Potin|first4=Yann|date=2022-03-15|publisher=Univ of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-29990-0|language=en}}

• List of Roman legions

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01 Illyricorum

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