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Originally Posted by Mynydd
Surely if there had been a contingent of Black legionaires moving into European land, that would have been noticed in the texts of the classic historians and chroniclers.
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That's right, and archaeological evidence for other ethnic groups and races in Roman service has been found all over the empire's territory. I've read of Germanic jewelry in Egypt and Syrian inscriptions on tombstones in northern England, so Black African legionaries would not have gone unnoticed.