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- Since the Danube was in itself an efficient natural frontier, the limes in Pannonia consisted of a series of individual fortifications (castella, turres, specula, etc.) built on strategically favorable sites within view of each other to ensure easy communication and signaling.
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The Heidentor, originally built in the Roman fort-city of Carnuntum in present-day Austria.. The Pannonian Limes (Latin: Limes Pannonicus, German: Pannonischer Limes) is part of the old Roman fortified frontier known as the Danubian Limes that runs for approximately 420 km (260 mi) from the Roman camp of Klosterneuburg in the Vienna Basin in Austria to the castrum in Singidunum in present-day ...
Since the Danube was in itself an efficient natural frontier, the limes in Pannonia consisted of a series of individual fortifications (castella, turres, specula, etc.) built on strategically favorable sites within view of each other to ensure easy communication and signaling.
The limes of Pannonia lost its defensive role and significance during the first decades of the 5th c. following the Hun invasion; the fortresses were abandoned and slowly fell into ruin. The heart of the fortress system was in the four legionary camps of the territory, all of them built on the N front.
Pannonia Map of the Pannonian Limes with its perimeter defences. This stretch of limes was in use from the 1st to the 5th centuries AD and helped to guard the provinces of: Pannonia inferior; Pannonia; The Pannonian Limes is situated on the territory of present-day Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.
The Roman limes in Pannonia, seven hundred kilometres long, is primarily defined by the River Danube. The termination of the Dacian and Suebian-Sarmatian wars, led by the emperor Domitian towards the end of the first century (88-93 AD), resulted in Pannonia becoming the most important military province of the empire (Mócsy 1974, 85).
Pannonia ( / pəˈnoʊniə /, Latin: [panˈnɔnia]) was a province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. Pannonia was located in the territory that is now western Hungary, western Slovakia, eastern Austria, northern ...
The two sections of the Limes in Germany cover a length of 550 km from the north-west of the country to the Danube in the south-east. The 118 km long Hadrian's Wall (UK) was built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian c. AD 122 at the northernmost limits of the Roman province of Britannia.
