WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A legion was nominally composed of 6, 000 soldiers, and each legion was divided up into 10 cohorts, with each cohort containing 6 centuria. The centurion thus nominally commanded about 100 men, and there were 60 centurions in a legion.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Roman army comprised many groups of soldiers and each group was known as a legion. A legion had over 5000 soldiers.

Detailed explanation-3: -legion, a military organization, originally the largest permanent organization in the armies of ancient Rome. The term legion also denotes the military system by which imperial Rome conquered and ruled the ancient world.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was divided up into groups called ‘legions’. Each legion had between 4, 000 and 6, 000 soldiers. A legion was further divided into groups of 80 men called ‘centuries’.