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Germania Superior ("Upper Germania ") was an imperial province of the Roman Empire. It comprised an area of today's western Switzerland, the French Jura and Alsace regions, and southwestern Germany. Important cities were Besançon ( Vesontio ), Strasbourg ( Argentoratum ), Wiesbaden ( Aquae Mattiacae ), and Germania Superior's capital, Mainz ...
May 5, 2015 · As the editors outline in their introduction, the English term ‘Roman Germany’ is indeed quite confusing: it refers to both the two Roman provinces of Germania (respectively Inferior and Superior) and to the regions of modern Germany that were Romanized, i.e. the two provinces of Roman Germania, Raetia, and a small part of Noricum.
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Mar 14, 2024 · The Roman provinces of Germania Superior and Inferior formed a frontier zone of diverse topography and changing history that experienced several discrete phases of expansion, consolidation and withdrawal. They extended from the Saône and Rhône Valleys in eastern Gaul north along the Rhine to the North Sea.
Germania Inferior and Germania Superior. Germania Inferior, also known as “Lower Germania,” was established as a Roman province around AD 85, following the expansion campaigns under Emperor Domitian. This province, renamed Germania Secunda in the 4th century AD, was situated on the western bank of the Rhine River, bordering the North Sea.
The only part between the Elbe, Rhine and Danube that remained unconquered was the kingdom of Maroboduus, the leader of the Marcomanni. In the winter of 5/6, the army of Germania Superior marched to the east along the river Main and built a large base at Marktbreit. From here, two legions could attack Maroboduus; at the same time, Tiberius ...
In Chapter 2, Wolters covers literary and archaeological evidence for the formulation of Germania Inferior and Superior during Roman military campaigns in Augustus’ and Tiberius’ principates. Kortüm’s Chapter 3 reviews the forms of the variously sized military and civilian settlements that arose in Germania Superior ; this chapter also ...
May 5, 2015 · Abstract. This chapter focuses on the Germani and the German provinces of the Roman Empire. It first considers the so-called ‘ethnic interpretation’ of the archaeological data in the lands between Danube, Rhine, and Elbe before discussing Germanic settlement and building structures among the German populations of the borderlands in the immediate contact zone of the limes.
