Legio II Armeniaca

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Legio II Armeniaca (from Armenia) was a late Empire Roman legion.

Its name could mean it was garrisoned in the Roman province of Armenia, but later it was moved into the field army, as a pseudocomitatensis legion. The legion is reported to have built a camp in Satale (CIL II 13630, through Ritterling's Legio). According to Ammianus Marcellinus (Res Gestae xx 7), in 360 II Armeniaca was stationed in Bezabde with II Flavia Virtutis and II Parthica, when Shapur II sieged and conquered the city, killing many of the inhabitants. The II Armeniaca, however, survived, since it is cited in the Notitia Dignitatum as under the command of the Dux Mesopothamiae.