Legio XX Valeria Victrix: one of the Roman legions. The natural way to read the name is "victorious black eagle", although it can also be read as "valiant and victorious".
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Julius Caesar
Before Caesar:
VII, later known as Claudia Pia Fidelis
VIII, later known asAugusta
VIIII, later known as Hispana (disappears 161?)
X Equestris, later…
Leo I: emperor of the East-Roman (Byzantine) empire (457-474).
Leo I
Names:
c.401: full name unknown
7 February 457: recognized as emperor
18 January 474:…
Leo II: emperor of the East-Roman (Byzantine) empire (474).Names:
Leo II
c.468: full name unknown
18 January 474: recognized as emperor
17 November 474:…
Leonidas (Greek Λεωνίδας): king of Sparta from the Agiad dynasty (r.488-480), killed in action in the battle of Thermopylae. Accession
Sparta, Temple of…
Leonnatus (356-322): one of the officers of Alexander the Great, saved his king's life in India and played a minor role in the wars of the Diadochi.Leonnatus was the son of Anteas, a member of the royal house of Lyncestis,…
Lepcis Magna: Phoenician colony, later part of the Carthaginian empire, the kingdom of Massinissa, and the Roman empire. Its most famous son was the emperor Septimius Severus (r.193-211).Origin
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