For the 1616 book, see Philipp Clüver. For other uses, see Germania (disambiguation).
Germania Antiqua
Provincia Germania
Province of the Roman Empire
7 BC–AD 9
The Roman province of Germania (marked in yellow)
Capital
Marktbreit?
Historical era
Antiquity
• Established
7 BC
• Disestablished
AD 9
Today part of
Germany
Netherlands
Switzerland
Germania (also sometimes called Germania Antiqua[by whom?]) was a short-lived Roman province
for the duration of 16 years under Augustus, from 7 BC to AD 9. The possible capital of this province was Marktbreit (German: Römerlager Marktbreit), a castrum (Roman legionary fortification) with a nearby canaba (Roman vicus) from the period of Emperor Augustus, located 70 km east of the "Limes Germanicus" on the River Main.
Germania (also sometimes called GermaniaAntiqua[by whom?]) was a short-lived Roman province for the duration of 16 years under Augustus, from 7 BC to...
Germania (/dʒərˈmeɪni.ə/ jər-MAY-nee-ə; Latin: [ɡɛrˈmaːni.a]), also called Magna Germania (English: Great Germania), Germania Libera (English: Free Germania)...
conquering Germania, and is thus considered one of the most important events in European history. The provinces of Germania Superior and Germania Inferior...
the modern day Netherlands, incorporating it into the province of GermaniaAntiqua in 7 BC, but would be repelled back across the Rhine after the Battle...
early Germanic peoples were later famously described in more detail in Germania by the 1st century Roman historian Tacitus. At this time, the Germanic...
coins have been discovered in Lokstedt (a section of Hamburg). GermaniaGermaniaAntiqua Flevum Marktbreit Die Grossprovinz Germanien: idea e forma di...
derives from Betis, the Latin name for the Guadalquivir River. 7 BC – GermaniaAntiqua, lost after three Roman legions were routed in 9 AD AD 6? – Moesia...
Gallia Belgica Gallia Lugdunensis Gallia Narbonensis Gaul GermaniaAntiquaGermania Inferior Germania Superior Hispania Baetica Hispania Balearica Hispania...
Quinctilius Varus, prompting retaliation campaigns by the Romans. GermaniaAntiqua roman province is abandoned with all their settlements such as the...
of Homer, previously issued in piecemeal fashion) Philipp Clüver – GermaniaAntiqua Fray Martín de Murúa – Historia General del Pirú Francis de Sales,...
Roman general and politician most famously known for his campaigns in Germania. The son of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia the Younger, Germanicus was...
Wales Press. Müllenhoff, Karl (1873). "Generatio regum et gentium". Germaniaantiqua. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. pp. 163–164. Pohl, Walter (1997). "Ethnic...
ground makes that many wooden and leather artefacts were preserved. GermaniaAntiqua Flevum Waldgirmes Forum Roman camp, Marktbreit Map of "Fectio castrum"...
considered likely that it is a misspelling of the tribe that Tacitus in his Germania called Aviones. These earliest known tribal Saxons inhabited "Northern...
called the Old Saxons, were the Germanic people of "Old" Saxony (Latin: Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now...
on the Rhine led by Antonius Saturninus. He then served as governor of Germania and Pannonia. In September 96, Domitian was succeeded by the elderly and...
praefectus or commander of cohort I Raetorum, whose official station was in Germania Inferior, but had been assigned to the Roman forces in Trajan's First Dacian...
first reconstituted by Lepidus in 43 BC, named by Mark Antony as Legio XII Antiqua (Ancient) Legio XIII Gemina (Twin): 57 BC – 45 BC: Julius Caesar, later...
English as well. Cologne functioned as the capital of the Roman province of Germania Inferior and as the headquarters of the Roman military in the region until...
Strabo called it) as Boiohaemum. The earliest mention was by Tacitus' Germania 28 (written at the end of the first century AD), and later mentions of...
reliant on the army to maintain power. Maximinus continued the campaigns in Germania but struggled to exert his authority over the whole empire. The Senate...
Germany, Austria and Italy, where Schwind and de Rijk gave their Musica Antiqua concerts together, sometimes privately and sometimes in public. One high...