Legio II Isaura
Probus (Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Wien)
The name suggests that the legion and its twin III Isaura were founded to garrison a region, Isauria in the Taurus mountain range. Its creator must have been the emperor Probus (276-282), who is known to have campaigned against the mountain tribes of Cilicia.
According to the text known as Notitia
Dignitatum, a list of
magistracies and army units, II Isaura was still in Isauria at the
beginning
of the fifth century.
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