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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(English: Free Germania), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, was a historical...
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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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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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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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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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Limes (Roman Empire) (section Lower Germania)
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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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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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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Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Belgica, Germania Superior and Inferior, and parts of the previously unconquered Germania Magna. Additionally, minor Germanic...
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Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (category Germania)
conquering Germania, and is thus considered one of the most important events in European history. The provinces of Germania Superior and Germania Inferior...
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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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Germanicus (section Commander of Germania)
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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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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Rottenburg am Neckar (category Germania Superior)
Rottenburg am Neckar (German: [ˈʁɔtn̩bʊʁk ʔam ˈnɛkaʁ] ; until 10 July 1964 only Rottenburg; Swabian: Raodaburg) is a medium-sized town in the administrative...
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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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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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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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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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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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The Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16) were a series of conflicts between the Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire. Tensions between the Germanic...
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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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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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14. In 43, they were relocated in Vindonissa, in the province of Germania Superior. The legion occupied Vindonissa from 46 to 69 with two auxiliary cohorts...
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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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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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Bad Wimpfen (category Germania Superior)
Bad Wimpfen (German: [baːt ˈvimpfn̩] ) is a historic spa town in the district of Heilbronn in the Baden-Württemberg region of southern Germany. It lies...
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Historical era Migration Period, Early Middle Ages • Alemanni invade Germania superior 213 • Under Frankish suzerainty 496 • Under direct Carolingian rule...
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