Quote Originally Posted by NightStar
@Zorba

You can´t fool me, in those days the world was flat so they couldn´t recruit people from down under
Actually, I recall seeing some Greek maps/globes which clearly displayed the world as being round, but I could be wrong...

As for the Legions, it depends. Pre-Marius, the Roman Legions were recruited anywhere, as long as they were made of Roman citizens (which generally restricted it to Roma but there were also colonies and such scattered around the place to "split up" the various allies to prevent them from ganging up on Rome...kinda failed with the Socii Wars...), while allied Legions were usually Italian allies. After Marius, it was pretty much the same thing, except Roman citizenship wasn't quite as exclusive.

So the Legions could be/were recruited from pretty much wherever you would have found decent numbers of Roman citizens.