Legio I Isaura Sagittaria

{{short description|Roman legion}}

File:Prima Isaura Sagittaria.png

Legio I Isaura Sagitaria was a pseudocomitatensis Roman legion.{{Cite web |title=bibliotheca Augustana |url=http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost05/Notitia/not_dor1.html |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=www.fh-augsburg.de}} The legion was probably created by emperor Probus.{{Cite web|title=Legio I Isaura Sagittaria - Livius|url=https://www.livius.org/articles/legion/legio-i-isaura-sagittaria/|access-date=2020-08-06|website=www.livius.org}}{{Cite journal |last=Onur |first=Faith |date=2009 |title=The Roman Army in Pamphylia: From the Third to Sixth Centuries A.D. |url=https://scholar.archive.org/work/hw67szyn5zhq3nr3flngvn5sri |journal=Zenodo |volume=12 |pages=299–318 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.3866450}} It is possible that in the beginning it, together with the II and III Isaura, it was used to defend the Isauria region,{{Cite thesis |last=Şenocak |first=Mehmet Bülent |date=2014-04-09 |title=Anadolu'da Roma lejyonları ve askeri birlikleri |publisher=Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü |url=http://acikerisim.selcuk.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/20.500.12395/4126|type=doctoralThesis }}{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Arnold Hugh Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrD03bO6ANEC |title=The Later Roman Empire, 284-602: A Social Economic and Administrative Survey |date=1986 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-0-8018-3353-3 |pages=660 |language=en}} The legion campaigned against the tribes of Cilicia. As its name suggests, its legionaries could be used also as archers,{{Cite book |last=Erdkamp |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1D612o_X2VYC&dq=Legio+I+Isaura+Sagittaria&pg=PA261 |title=A Companion to the Roman Army |date=2011-03-31 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4443-9376-7 |pages=261 |language=en}} an uncommon feature for Roman legions. According to Notitia Dignitatum, in the beginning of the 5th century the I Isaura was under the command of the Magister Militum per Orientem.