The city was without walls, protected by a light garrison of the Tenth Legion, during the Late Roman Period.

To date, Bonn's Roman fort remains the largest fort of its type known from the ancient world, i. e. a fort built for one full-size Imperial Legion and its auxiliaries.

In response, the Iceni, joined by the Trinovantes, destroyed the Roman colony at Camulodunum ( Colchester ) and routed the part of the IXth Legion that was sent to relieve it.

* In the video game series Fallout ( series ) The Legion is a group of slavers based on the Roman Legion in the post apocalyptic wasteland.

Also in 2007, the film The Last Legion portrayed Merlin ( initially called Ambrosinus ) as a druid and tutor of both the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus Caesar, as well as of his son Arthur.

Neil Marshall's 2010 film Centurion features a conflict between a band of Picts and the Roman Ninth Legion.

Duncan Kenworthy's 2011 film The Eagle depicts the quest of a Roman officer, portrayed as the son of the commander of the Ninth Legion, into the country of the Picts to retrieve the Ninth's standard along with his Brigantian slave, whom he frees during their journey.

Rome's Italian allies were required to provide a legion to support each Roman Legion.

Despite a number of reforms, the Legion system survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and was continued in the Eastern Roman Empire until around 7th century, when reforms begun by Emperor Heraclius to counter the increasing need for soldiers around the Empire resulted in the Theme system.

* 66 – Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.

Following his death, the Roman Second Legion are heavily defeated by the Silures.

* The Roman Legion II Augusta is stationed at Gloucester.

In Book 5, Chapter 44 the Commentarii de Bello Gallico notably mentions Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, two Roman centurions of the 11th Legion.

The pre-Marian Roman Legion was a combined arms force and consisted of five classes of troops.

Roman soldiers from the 10th Legion camped on the Mount during the Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE.

Perhaps the distinctions between dragons of western origin and Chinese dragons are arbitrary, since the later Roman dragon was certainly of Iranian origin: in the Roman Empire, where each military cohort had a particular identifying signum, ( military standard ), after the Parthian and Dacian Wars of Trajan in the east, the Dacian Draco military standard entered the Legion with the Cohors Sarmatarum and Cohors Dacorum ( Sarmatian and Dacian cohorts )— a large dragon fixed to the end of a lance, with large gaping jaws of silver and with the rest of the body formed of colored silk.

The Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic congregation, runs a novitiate and college of humanities on a complex on Oak Avenue.

The Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic religious institute, operates the Our Lady of Thornwood Conference, Education and Training Center on the site of a former IBM facility on Columbus Avenue.

Slightly to the south lies Center Benwood, which is the primary residential section of the city and contains Saint John Roman Catholic Church ( established in 1875 ), Saint James and Saint John School, Benwood City Park ( established in 1973 ), the Fourth Street Playground, the city building, the fire, water and police departments, the post office, the Blake Brothers Post No. 46 American Legion and the original Undo's Family Restaurant.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Uther is himself a Roman Emperor-the last, Romulus Augustus.

" The City of the Legion " may be a reference to Caerleon, whose name translates as such, but it might also refer to Chester, the site of a large Roman base.

* The Pilum-The Roman Spear, Caerleon's Roman Legion

* Photographs and commentary on ancient Roman columbaria

* for the Study and Photographs of Roman Legion and Auxillia Shield and Painting Patterns Republic — Late Period

The breakup of the Holy Roman Empire and the downfall of feudalism led, not more than two centuries ago, to the surge of nationalism.

A Virginia judge a while back cited a Roman jurist to the effect that ten years might be a reasonable length of time for such a change.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

Her parents, pious Roman Catholics, christened her Mary Anne Elizabeth Magdalene Steichen.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

in other words its existence belongs to the period of Roman Britain.

Goethe asks in Wilhelm Meister whether we know the land where the lemon trees flower, and the light of the Mediterranean glows through Torquato Tasso and the Roman Elegies.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

Ludie had a cigar box full of marbles and shooters, and a Roman candle from last Fourth of July.

Jacopo Galli introduced him into several Roman homes.

He was able to discern the body lines of the Roman women under their robes.

He saw the smug eyes of the Home Army chief, Roman, and all the Romans and the faces of the peasants who held only hatred for him.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, as the Roman poet, Virgil, declared with much more historical sense than most writers of today.

Included are the following: Baptist Student Movement, Canterbury Club ( Episcopal ), Christian Science Organization, Friends' Meeting for Worship, Hillel ( Jewish ), Liberal Religious Fellowship, Lutheran Student Association, Newman Club ( Roman Catholic ), Presbyterian Student Fellowship, United Student Fellowship ( Congregational-Baptist ), and Wesley Fellowship ( Methodist ).

The Northfield churches include the following: Alliance, Congregational-Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran ( Norwegian, Danish, Missouri Synod, and Bethel ), Methodist, Moravian, Pentecostal, and Roman Catholic.

About a thousand years after that, when the Roman Empire was divided, it became capital of the Eastern section.

In 1453 when the last vestige of ancient Roman power fell to the Turks, the city officially shifted religions -- although the Patriarch, or Pope, of the Orthodox Church continued to live there, and still does -- and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

It is possible to identify the test procedure completely with a code consisting of a Roman Numeral, a letter, and an Arabic number.

To climax her Roman revels, she was thrown out of the swanky Hotel Excelsior after she had run naked through its marble halls screaming for help.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

In Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,, in 1952, a Roman Catholic hospital presented seven Protestant physicians with an ultimatum to quit the Planned Parenthood Federation or to resign from the hospital staff.

He thereby precipitated a bitter controversy involving Protestants, Jews and Roman Catholics that continued for two months, until the city's Board of Hospitals lifted the ban on birth-control therapy.

A year later in Albany, N.Y., a Roman Catholic hospital barred an orthopedic surgeon because of his connection with the Planned Parenthood Association.

The Roman Catholic Church, however, sanctions a much more liberal policy on family planning.

The Roman Catholic Church sanctions only abstention or the rhythm method, also known as the use of the infertile or safe period.