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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 , Strasbourg (Argentoratum), Wiesbaden (Aquae Mattiacae), and Germania Superior's capital, Mainz (Mogontiacum).
May 5, 2015 · The English term ‘Roman Germany’ 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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…Romans called Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, respectively. In 12 bce Drusus took the army of Germania Superior on an expedition to crush the Sicambri, Frisii, and Chauci tribes to the north. He was able to force the tribes to surrender before year’s end, and some sources suggest that he…
Oct 11, 2020 · There were two army groups: the army of the Middle Rhine or Germania Superior ( I Germanica, V Alaudae and XIX ), and the army of the Lower Rhine or Germania Inferior. Although the commanders were officially subordinate to the governor of Gallia Belgica, they were in fact autonomous.
The prosperous Roman provinces of Germania Superior and Germania Inferior, sometimes collectively referred to as "Roman Germania", were subsequently established in northeast Roman Gaul, while territories east of the Rhine remained independent of Roman control.
Part II (“Core Provinces at the Edge of Empire”) takes a topical approach to life in Germania Inferior and Superior and to some extent in Raetia across seven chapters. Moosbauer’s Chapter 6 details the osteological, numismatic, and artifactual finds from the Kalkriese and Harzhorn battlefields.
The areas they controlled were effectively provinces, with their capitals at Cologne and Mainz (*Mogontiacum) respectively, but their formal designation as such (as Germania Inferior and Germania Superior) did not come until c.
