IIII (IV) Scythica		Update	4.11.2016
Sources
1	Real-Encyclopädie article Legio by Ritterling	p.1556-1564
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History	from 30 BC to 284 AD
Date	Action	Legionary HQ	Modern name	Province	Comment
43 BC	possibly = IIII Sorana in Pansa's army at Mutina				or an Antonian legion
30	moved to Macedonia			Macedonia
29-27	defeated the Bastarnae, a Scythian tribe, in Moesia				probably received the title Scythica
6 AD	stationed in Moesia			Moesia
6-9	Pannonian revolt
33	first firm attestation in Moesia
56/57	moved to Syria for Corbulo's campaign
58-62	Armenian campaign of Corbulo and Paetus
62	based near Antioch	Antioch	near Antakya	Syria
66	under Cestius Gallus vs 1st Jewish revolt (vexillation)
69	supported Vespasian in civil war (vexillation)
70	siege of Jerusalem (vexillation)
70/90	stationed at	Zeugma (Seleucia)	Belkis, Turkey	Syria
113-117	Trajan's Parthian wars
193-194	Pescennius Niger's civil war against Septimius Severus
195-197	Septimius Severus' Parthian campaign
216-217	Caracalla's Parthian war				title Antoniniana
219	legion disgraced for rebellion against Elagabalus
231-233	Severus Alexander's Persian war
252	Persian campaign, defeat at Barbalissus
260	Persian campaign where Valerian was defeated
284	still in Syria	Zeugma	Belkis, Turkey	Syria