- Legio III Diocletiana
Legio III "Diocletiana" was a "
comitatensis "Roman legion , levied in296 byDiocletian , from whom the legion took its name.The aim of this legion was to guard the newly re-organized province of Aegyptus, being based in
Alexandria . It was created to support II "Traiana Fortis", and therefore it took the numeral III.During the 4th century, some "
vexillatio nes" of the III "Diocletiana" were sent in the south of Egypt, in Thebes andKom Ombo .Theodosius I sent soldiers from the north to III "Diocletiana" in Egypt, and Egyptian soldiers in Macedonia, forming the III "Diocletiana Thebaeorum", under the command of the "Magister Militum per Thracias" ("Notitia Dignitatum Orientis", VII). The shield pattern of III "Diocletiana Thebaeorum" was a red rose on white field.ee also
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