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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 ...
The building of the limes began during the 1st c., following the Roman conquest, with temporary earth and timber camps to protect the major crossings of the Danube. During the last third of the 1st c. the camps were rebuilt in stone, and in the sections between them the system of auxiliary field camps was developed.
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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.
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.
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- The valleys of the Rhine and the Danube; United Kingdom
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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 ...
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opposite the legionary fortress at Budapest a counter fortification was built (Aquincum – Contra Aquincum, ID Nos 70a and 71). Additionally bridgeheads were built in pairs on both sides of the river in Pannonia Valeria, like at Szigetmonostor‐Horány (ID No 67a) and Dunakeszi Duna sor (ID No 67b).
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.
