Auxiliary and Legion distribution throughout the Empire

[Theodosius the Great]

Avete,<br>
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Whenever I see a map showing the distribution of the Legions over the Empire during the time of the Principate, I often wonder why it ignores the distribution of the auxiliaries. Is it because we don't know ?<br>
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Afterall, the Legions represented less than half of Rome's military might. Are we meant to assume that wherever there were Legions stationed in a province that they were complemented by an equal number of Auxiliaries ?<br>
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Some provinces must have been exclusively garrisoned by Auxiliary cohorts such as Judea during the early Principate. Were there others ?<br>
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[Anonymous]

there are a lot less units to have to consider if you only worry about the legions!<br>
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probably because generally much more in known about individual legions than individual auxiliary units - especially if you want to put units to bases<br>
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and until fairly recently I dont think the research into auxiliary units has been done in any way as much depth as legionary units<br>
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but there is an increasing amount of work done<br>
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Im sure its very possible to start to piece together the distribution map.<br>
Diplomas provide good evidence for units in the provinces - if not where they were based in the province.<br>
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It is something I have in the back of my mind to do - using the Spaul publications as a starting point<br>
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[Praefectusclassis]

There's going to be a huge amount of guesswork in your distribution map. It may be possible to do a, let's say, mid 2nd century by-province map with some degree of certainty, but more detail than that, I dunno. <p>Greets<br>
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[Jeroen Pelgrom]

you can find an historical atlas with detailed maps of certain parts of the empire with locations of "forts and castles" (like the Westermann-atlas which i have) but finding out which auxilia unit was stationed where will indeed be almost impossible. Do we know how many auxilia-units there were (in the second century AD for example). <p>-------------------------------------------------------<br>
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