Drawing upon the latest literary and archaeological research, this is an in-depth study of the Roman Army units based in the Eastern Provinces during the turbulent third century of the Roman Empire. In this book, eminent Roman historian, Dr Raffaele D''Amato, looks at the notoriously under-represented history of the Roman armies during the middle 3rd Century whose records have been obscured by the chaotic civil wars of that period between usurpers to the Imperial authority of Rome. Following on from the previous title , MAA 527, Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces (2): 3rd Century AD , this book considers the evidence for troops in the Eastern half of the Empire specifically around the Balkans, Mesopotamia, the Middle East and North Africa and looks at the weakness of Imperial central authority which inevitably led to local particularism and a wide range of appearance in regional commands. Dr D''Amato uses literary, painted, sculptural and archaeological sources to reconstruct this little-understood period of Roman military history and meticulously charts and reconstructs the appearance and campaigns of those Roman forces stationed in the East.>

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Raffaele D'Amato, illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri

Zusammenfassung
Drawing on up-to-date literary and archaeological research, an in-depth study of the units based in the Eastern Provinces during the turbulent third century of the Roman Empire.

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INTRODUCTION

• The Eastern Provinces, from the Severans to Diocletian
  SELECT CHRONOLOGY
  MILITARY ORGANIZATION
• Units - Command ranks and functions
  DISTRIBUTION OF UNITS
• Legiones
• Auxilia
• Numeri
• Table of identified units, locations & dates
  ARMS, EQUIPMENT & CLOTHING
• Moesia Superior
• Moesia Inferior & Scythia Minor
• Dacia (Malvensis & Superior)
• Epirus
• Achaia
• Macedonia
• Thracia
  - Bythinia & Pontus
  - Chersonesus-Tauris
• Asia
• Lycia & Pamphylia
• Galatia
• Cappadocia
• Cilicia-Isauria
• Osroene & Mesopotamia
• Syria-Coele
• Syria-Phoenicia
• Syria Palaestina
• Arabia
• Cyprus
• Aegyptus
• Crete, Cyrenaica & Tripolitania
  SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  PLATE COMMENTARIES
  INDEX