Editing Carnuntum (section)

====Legio XV {{lang|la|Apollinaris}}====
Significant Romanisation happened when the town was selected as the garrison of the [[Legio XV Apollinaris|Legio XV {{lang|la|nocat=y|Apollinaris}}]] before 14 AD.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.livius.org/articles/legion/legio-xv-apollinaris/ |title=Legio XV Apollinaris – Livius |website=Livius.org |access-date=27 December 2018 |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226064519/http://www.livius.org/articles/legion/legio-xv-apollinaris/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A few years later, it became the centre of the Roman fortifications along the [[Danube]] from [[Vindobona]] (now [[Vienna]]) to [[Brigetio]] ([[Szőny|Ó-Szőny]]).<ref name="EB1911"/> According to [[Tacitus]],<ref>Tacitus, ''Annals'', XII, 29.2</ref> the emperor [[Claudius]] ordered the governor of Pannonia "to have a legion with an [[auxilia]]ry on the bank of the Danube" to protect the losers of a dispute between [[Germania|Germanic]] tribes (the [[Quadi]] and [[Marcomanni]]) and deter the victors from the temptation to invade Pannonia. To this period (about 50&nbsp;AD) belongs the auxiliary {{lang|la|castrum}} of a cavalry [[Ala (Roman cavalry unit)|{{lang|la|nocat=y|ala}}]] 1.5&nbsp;km south-west of the legionary fortress.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jenő |last=Fitz |chapter=The Danubian Provinces |title=History of the Greeks and Romans, Volume 16: The Principles of Rome, from Augustus to Alexander Severus |location=Milan |date=2008 |page=495}}</ref>

In 71&nbsp;AD, after several campaigns, the Legio XV ''Apollinaris'' returned to Carnuntum and rebuilt its fortress. While some of the legion fought in [[Trajan's Dacian Wars]], the main body of the legion remained in Pannonia.