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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...
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    Germania (/dʒərˈmeɪni.ə/ jər-MAY-nee-ə; Latin: [ɡɛrˈmaːni.a]), also called Magna Germania (English: Great Germania), Germania Libera (English: Free Germania)...
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    into either Germania Inferior or Germania Superior in AD 85. In Tacitus, Germania Antiqua or Germania Barbara, are synonyms of Germania Transrhenana...
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    praetor, consul, and governor to the provinces of Gallia Aquitania, Germania Superior, and Africa during the first half of the first century AD. He retired...
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    Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") was a Roman province from AD 85 until the province was renamed Germania Secunda in the 4th century AD, on the west...
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    devoted to Nero, which led Lucius Verginius Rufus, the governor of Germania Superior, to march on Vindex. He besieged Vesontio, capital of the Sequani...
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    Limes), forming the border between the Roman provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior. By contrast with the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, it...
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    Alsace was inhabited by nomadic hunters. Part of the province of Germania Superior in the Roman Empire, the area went on to become a diffuse border region...
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    Primigenia was first stationed in Mogontiacum in the Roman province of Germania Superior, guarding the Rhine border as part of the limes. Along with the rest...
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  • Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Belgica, Germania Superior and Inferior, and parts of the previously unconquered Germania Magna. Additionally, minor Germanic...
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    time in AD 12. The year after, he was made proconsul of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior, and all of Gaul. From there he commanded eight legions,...
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  • in Europe Germania Superior, a province of the Roman Empire in Europe Germania Inferior, a province of the Roman Empire in Europe Germania in Dacia, a...
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  • is unclear whether by legatus this Acilius Strabo was governor of Germania Superior, or possibly the commander of a legion stationed in the province;...
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    Germania Superior ALAE XXX COHORTES COHORTES Gallorum Indiana I Scubulorum I Aquitanorum veterana III Aquitanorum eq c.R. IV Aquitanorum eq c.R. I Asturum...
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    Trajan (category Roman governors of Germania Superior)
    an attempted coup by Lucius Antonius Saturninus, the governor of Germania Superior. Trajan probably remained in the region after the revolt was quashed...
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    Stuttgart (category Germania Superior)
    Vindelicorum (Augsburg). Cannstatt was a part of the Roman imperial province Germania Superior. As with many military installations, a settlement sprang up nearby...
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  • Hesselbach Castle (category Roman fortifications in Germania Superior)
    Hesselbach Castle was originally a Roman fortress of the older Odenwald line of the Neckar-Odenwald Limes. The present-day archaeological site is located...
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  • Main Limes (category Germania Superior)
    The Main Limes (German: Mainlimes), also called the Nasser Limes, was built around 90 AD and, as part of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, formed the...
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    Hispania. Emperor Claudius likely transferred the legion to Mainz in Germania Superior to replace the XIV Gemina. Probably in 41 AD.However. Some people...
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    Argentoratum (category Roman fortifications in Germania Superior)
    Nero Claudius Drusus established a military outpost belonging to the Germania Superior Roman province close to a Gaulish village near the banks of the Rhine...
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    Roman province of Gallia Belgica[citation needed] (22 BC), later into Germania Superior (AD 83). The Helvetians, like the rest of Gaul, were largely Romanized...
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    Mainz (category Roman fortifications in Germania Superior)
    the Roman Empire, and became the capital of the Roman province of Germania Superior. The city was settled by the Franks from 459 on, and in the 8th century...
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  • southern part of Germany. The term is first found in medieval Latin as Germania Superior, for example in chapter 23 of the Imago mundi of Honorius Augustodunensis...
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    Agri Decumates (category Germania Superior)
    ("Decumatian Fields") were a region of the Roman Empire's provinces of Germania Superior and Raetia, covering the Black Forest, Swabian Jura, and Franconian...
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    Roman provinces of downstream Germania Inferior (nowadays part of Belgium and the Netherlands) and upstream Germania Superior. Thus, in the case of the Low...
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    Moguntiacum (Mainz). The two original military districts of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, came to influence the surrounding tribes, who later respected...
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  • at Corinum (Cirencester). In 98 it is recorded in Germania Inferior, and in 134 in Germania Superior. The only mention of this ala in Britain is the tombstone...
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    Pamphylia which had been a part of the province of Galatia. AD 83/84 – Germania Superior (southern Germany) The push into southern Germany up to the Agri Decumates...
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    Besançon (category Germania Superior)
    Besançon (UK: /ˈbɛzənsɒn/, US: /bəˈzænsən/, French: [bəzɑ̃sɔ̃] , Franco-Provençal: [bəzɑ̃ˈsɔ̃]; archaic German: Bisanz; Latin: Vesontio) is the prefecture...
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    Revolt of the Batavi took place in the Roman province of Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") between AD 69 and 70. It was an uprising against the Roman...
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