[3][4] Jerome identified Maximianopolis with the Hadad-rimmon of Zechariah 12:11 – On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of MegiddoThe mention of the Hadad-rimmon mourning may be a reference to pagan worship ceremonies or to an event such as the death of Josiah, mortally wounded in the Battle of Megiddo (609 BC).
[5] Maximianopolis in Palaestina[6] was also a seat of a Bishop in the province of Palestina II.
In the time of the so-called Pilgrim of Bordeaux and of Jerome,[7] the town already bore the name of Maximianopolis.
In the Latin version of an episcopal Notitia Episcopatuum, probably of the 11th century, the name "Legionum" is given to what in the original Greek text is Maximianopolis.
Legio became Lajjun, currently the site of Kibbutz Meggido, closer than Maximianopolis to Megiddo.