Cohors

rima Rima, also known as Rima the Jungle Girl, is the fictional heroine of W. H. Hudson's 1904 novel '' Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest''. In it, Rima, a primitive girl of the shrinking rain forest of South America, meets Abel, a pol ...

"Augusta Nervia Pacensis" / "Aurelia" / "Flavia Malvensis" Brittonum milliaria editata'' (" st infantry 1000 strong"venerable, Nervian and peaceful" / "Aurelian" / "Flavian" cohort of Brittones") was a

Roman auxiliary The (; ) were introduced as non-citizen troops attached to the citizen Roman legion, legions by Augustus after his reorganisation of the Imperial Roman army from 27 BC. By the 2nd century, the contained the same number of infantry as the ...

infantry

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. It was stationed at forts in

Dacia Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus ro ...

: castra Buridava,

Malva ''Malva'' is a genus of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae. It is one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow. The genus is widespread throughout the temp ...

Vârtop Vârtop is a commune in Dolj County, Oltenia, Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, S ...

, and the successor to the Vârtop camp, Gară. It and Cohors I Britannica are the first cohorts bearing the appellation ''milliaria'' referred to in extant records, in the diploma for

Pannonia Pannonia (, ) was a Roman province, province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, on the west by Noricum and upper Roman Italy, Italy, and on the southward by Dalmatia (Roman province), Dalmatia and upper Moesia. It ...

of 85 CE.P. A. Holder, ''Studies in the Auxilia of the Roman Army from Augustus to Trajan'', thesis, University of Manchester, 1978, BAR International Series 70, Oxford: BAR, 1980,
p. 5

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* Academia Română: Istoria Românilor, Vol. 2, Daco-romani, romanici, alogeni, 2nd. Ed., București, 2010, * Constantin C. Petolescu: Dacia - Un mileniu de istorie, Ed. Academiei Române, 2010, * Cristian M. Vlădescu: Fortificațiile romane din Dacia Inferior, Craiova, 1986 * Petru Ureche: Tactică, strategie și specific de luptă la cohortele equitate din Dacia Romană Military of ancient Rome Auxiliary peditata units of ancient Rome Roman Dacia {{AncientRome-mil-stub

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