What Are the Roman Veteran Colonies?

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Who were the veterans of the Roman legions and what role did they play in the empire? This video reenacts what it was like to join the Roman legion. The process included passing a physical test, proving one's qualifications, and taking a Roman soldier's oath before the local commander.

Credits:
Research = Chris Das Neves
Script = Chris Das Neves
Narration = Guy Michaels
Reenactment = Imperium Romanum, Veteres Milites Sibiu

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The bandits realized too late they’d begun raiding the wrong colony

wisdomneeded
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I suspect these men were thinking about the Roman Empire

BrainDancer
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Living with the guys you served with is a dream. I'd die for my boys.

Oliveria
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The "Band of Brothers" impact for those who have served in combat was a strong back then, as it is now.

michaeldoonan
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Me and the boiz Romanizing barbarian provinces

AngryCenturion
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French Foreign Legion does the same thing for it's soldiers who served 20 or 25 years and retire. "The Legion Takes Care Of Its Own" and retired soldiers can go live at this community they have exclusively for retired soldiers of the Legion.

mattjack
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The book of Philippians in the Bible was written to a church in one of those such colonies.

roberthart
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It's important to realize that the strong bond soldiers of the same platoon or squad form is because they went through hell together. They stood by their sides as they went through things the average person could not even think of handling. It's therefore understandable that they want to stay connected to their brothers in arms, but it's equally understandable that they don't want their beloved children to suffer through the same things they did.

chungus
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Many "barbarians" joined too. Technically, in the early empire period, you could not join without roman citizenship, but because the Legions needs of men were quite... exigent, the military often gave citizenship to promising barbarians and recruited them in the legion. Otherwise, bthey served as auxiliaries.

giacomoromano
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Imagine it’s you and your boys’s last year of service and your sent to cannae or carhae…

joea
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This was an amazingly effective strategy that worked extremely well right until generals started promising land not in a territory or province but in Italy itself. Then it became a massive issue because it meant stripping the land away from the Roman person or people (usually the ruling elite in the senate) that owned the land before and back then as it is today there is only so much land to go around. So instead of pacifying a province it stirred up unrest.

tarn
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It's kind of like the military dominated villages around bases where I grew up. I lived in one such villiage as a child, and was heavily pressured by my family, friends, and the entire village really to enlist when I came of age, but I physically could not due to disability after being hit with a car when I was 12. Alas, I was basically shunned from the villiage, and only my closest friends and my family kept contact with me.

Benwut
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Roman VA:
American VA: “yea sorry appointments are 18 months out”

tylerreis
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Im closer with one of my old Platoon Sergeants than my own family. Thankfully we both retired from the same base at the same time and married local women. Its been 17 years since we were in war together and we still talk daily.

mikebrase
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That grindstone technique was interesting

jaguarholly
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For those of you who are curious, the Sixth Legate (Legio VI Victrix) was created by Octavian in 41BC to fight Mark Anthony in the Roman Civil War (the Perusine War) that you may have seen in HBO's Rome as well as against Pompey's son--who had taken over Sicily. They eventually were stationed in Britain from 114AD until an unknown year in the 300s (they were not there during the Latin exit from 383-409AD).

Commodus named them "Britannia" (owners of the Britons) around 180AD. Their headquarters was "Eboracum" (literally "where the yew grows"), present day York (a truncated way of saying "ebor'c").

WifeWantsAWizard
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i love history but i was so supprised to see this, last time i saw this guys channel it was mostly total war videos and now its totally deferent. good shit bud, keep up the good work

themisfit
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The Aztecs had something similar to this, Veterans were gifted land and important positions in society for their service to The Empire.

thenotoriousgryyn
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It's great being a part of something bigger than your hometown.❤

JimmyJohn-ry
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Thank you for the man who went back in time to document this piece of history👏🏽

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