{"id":95630,"date":"2021-09-28T09:38:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T07:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=95630"},"modified":"2021-09-28T09:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T07:38:53","slug":"roman-military-diploma","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/roman-military-diploma\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman military diploma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A military diploma is the modern name of Roman documents confirming the release from the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/\">army<\/a> and the granting of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-law\/roman-citizenship\/\">Roman citizenship<\/a> to a veteran of auxiliary units by the emperor. It existed as a reward for faithful service. The diploma was drawn up by imperial officials and displayed to the public in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The soldier received it in the form of two bronze plates, which were notarized with a copy of the original <em>constitutionis<\/em> (imperial edict). The first diplomas were awarded to soldiers who enlisted in the army and served Rome well. This facilitated the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/romanization\/\">romanization<\/a> of the conquered territories and encouraged more people to join the army. The first diplomas were awarded during the principate&#8217;s times. In 212 CE <em>Constitutio Antoniniana<\/em> granted citizenship to the free inhabitants of the Empire. Thus, issuing new documents for most veterans was unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>Until the end of the 3rd century CE, a diploma was still issued for veterans of the fleet, Praetorian Guard and <em>cohortum urbanarum<\/em><em>.<\/em> In the 4th century, Rome issued similar documents granting veteran rights, but not related to civil rights. At least a thousand diplomas have survived to our times, but most of them are in fragments. Roman military diplomas are today a valuable historical resource about the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-empire\/\">Roman Empire<\/a>, its army and navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":71795,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[80,77],"class_list":["post-95630","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-army","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/95630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/95630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=95630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}