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Military units and formations established in the 1st century BC

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Praetorian Guard

Imperial Roman unit who guarded the emperors

Legio II Augusta

Legio XIII Gemina

Roman legion that crossed the Rubicon

Legio I Germanica

Legio IX Hispana

Legio V Macedonica

Legio IV Macedonica

Legio XIV Gemina

Legio VII Claudia

Legio V Alaudae

Legio III Cyrenaica

Legio XX Valeria Victrix

Legio VI Victrix

Legio XII Fulminata

Legio III Gallica

Legio VI Ferrata

Legio XXI Rapax

Legio XV Apollinaris

Legio XI Claudia

Legio VIII Augusta

Legio IV Scythica

Legio III Augusta

Legio XVI Gallica

Cohortes urbanae

body of troops in ancient Roman

Legio XXII Deiotariana

Legio X Equestris

Classis Misenensis

senior fleet of the imperial Roman navy

The ' (in English: Gabinians') were 2000 Roman legionaries and 500 cavalrymen stationed in Egypt by the Roman general Aulus Gabinius after he had reinstated the Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes on the Egyptian throne in 55 BC. The soldiers were left to protect the King, but they soon adopted the manners of their new country and became completely alienated from the Roman Republic. After the death of Auletes in 51 BC, they helped his son Ptolemy XIII in his power struggle against his sister Cleopatra and even involved Julius Caesar, the supporter of Cleopatra, during Caesar's Civil War up t

Germanic bodyguard

Roman imperial guard unit

Classis Ravennas

Roman fleet based at Ravenna

Classis Flavia Moesica

fleet of the Roman Empire