Divizia 4 Infanterie GEMINA
A leader of the Romanian Revolution of 1848-1849 in Transylvania, Avram lancu (1824-1872), who would enter Romanian legend under the name "The Young Prince of the Mountains," was named commander of the Auraria Gemina Legion. Within "Auraria Gemina" prefecture (in the Apuseni Mountains), Avram Iancu's legion was thoroughly organized. The prefects of Hunedoara and Sebes constituted their national guards in the same way. The main battles fought by the motif of the Auraria Gemina Legion, whose prefect was Avram lancu, against the troops of the Hungarian government commanded by Gen. Iosif Bern, took place between February and May 1849.
Auraria Gemina Legion II and Legion Auraria Gemina (numbering is uncertain) was one of about fifteen legions organized in Romanian Transylvania Hungarian troops to fight during the revolution of 1848-1849. The area of recruiting fighters from Auraria Gemina Legion was the center of the Apuseni Mountains, in villages around the city Campeni. Prefecture of the area which recruited combatants were divided into two and each vice-prefectura in four courts.Legion headquarters was Campeni the building that today houses the city museum. Great unit itself was led by Avram Iancu, who had the rank of prefect, generally equivalent to that of the regular army. Legion fought heavy Hungarian troops and militias in late 1848 and by autumn 1849. It was disbanded in autumn 1849, after the revolution.
Legions XIII and XIV were both called ‘gemina.’ Mommsen supposed that they were so called, because they were raised at the same time’. But then on his view eight legions were raised at the same time. Why then should two of them be singled out as geminae? If this was the origin of the cognomen it would seem to point to these legions having been created on a different occasion. But this is not the technical meaning of the term gemina, which both from Caesars and from Dio Cassius” meant that a legion was created by the fusion of two or more legions into one. That after Actium or after taking over the legions of Lepidus, there were natural opportunities for such fusion is obvious, but certainly the occasion of the Pannonian rising was one much more likely to lead to the converse process adopted by Claudius in 43 AD. As far therefore as the cognomen ‘gemina’ is concerned, it points to these legions as belonging to the original army of Augustus‘.
The only other legions called gemina are Legio X which was confessedly one of the original legions; and the legion enrolled by Galba in Spain and at first called Galbiana. It was probably afterwards Gemina, because its full complement was made up of soldiers from the disbanded legions of the Vitellians. There were also two alae in the army of Upper Germany at the end of the 1st century, ala I Flavia gemina and ala II Flavia gemina. These were in the same way probably alae created by Vespasian out of the fragments of several of the alae disbanded on account of their behaviour in the war against Civilis.
On the conclusion of the Jewish and German wars a re-arrangement of the forces was to a certain extent necessary. To Pannonia [part of modern Romania] two of its old legions were restored, XII Gemina, which was probably moved from its old headquarters Poetovio to Vindobona on the frontier, and the XV Apollinaris, which for the last seven years had been in the east, was stationed at Carnuntum in Pannonia . X Gemina was likewise sent somewhat later to Lower Germany, and their place was now filled by the VII Gemina, of which traces are found in the province from this time onward, especially at Leon its headquarters. Britain had sent the XIV Gemina into Germany at the same time, but the province was not yet completely conquered, and four legions were still necessary.
The X Gemina was in Pannonia with the XIV Gemina Legion in about 233, when Dio penned a list of the thirty-three legions then serving with the Roman army. The most substantial role in Romanizing Dacia was played by the army. The heart of the province at Apulum (Alba Iulia) was the strategic reserve of the Roman army displaced to Dacia, the XIII legion Gemina.
 | Divizia 4 Infanterie | GEMINA | |
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| Regimentul 50 Rache Antiaeriene | Batalionul 55 Telecomunicatii | Batalionul 317 Cercetare "Vladeasa" | |
| "Andrei Muresianu" | "Napoca" | ||
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| Batalionul 400 Logistic | Batalionul 498 Parasutisti | ||
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| Batalionul 72 Aparare C.B.R.N. | |||
| Brigada 61 Vânatori de Munte (Reserve) | "General Virgil Badulescu" | |
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| Batalionul 17 Vânatori de Munte | Batalionul 22 Vânatori de Munte | Batalionul 24 Vânatori de Munte | |
| "Dragos Voda" | "Ciresoaia" | ||
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| Batalionul 26 Vânatori de Munte | Batalionul Logistic | ||
| "Avram Iancu" | |||
| Brigazii 81 Mecanizata | Bistrita | |
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| Batalionul 495 Infanterie | Batalionul 151 Infanterie | Batalionul 812 Infanterie | |
| Colonel Radu Golescu | Razboieni Lupii negri | "Soimii Carpatilor" | |
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| Regimentul 612 Artilerie Antitanc | |||
| Brigazii 81 Mecanizata | Bistrita | |
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| Batalionul 191 Infanterie | Batalionul 811 Infanterie | Batalionul 812 Infanterie | |
| "Colonel Radu Golescu" | "Dragonii Transilvanie" | Soima Carpatilor | |
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| Batalionul 817 Artilerie | Batalionul 55 Aparare Antiaeriana | Batalionul 814 transport | |
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| Regimentul 405 Logistic | |||
| Regimentul 69-Artilerie | Simleul Silvaniei | |
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| Batalionul 7 Artilerie Mixta | Batalionul 315 Artilerie Mixta | Batalionul 612 Artilerie Mixta | |
| "General Vasile Danacu" | Baia Mare | ||
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| Batalionul 316 trasmission | Batalionul 317 Logistic | ||
 | Brigazii 4 Logistica (Brigada 4 Geniu) | TRANSILVANIA" | |
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| Batalionului 41 Transport | Batalionul 43 Transport | ||
| "BOBÂLNA" | "Roman I Musat" | ||
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| Batalionul 4 Geniu | Batalionul 52 Geniu | Batalionul 136 Geniu Pontieri |
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