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Germania

Dating back to the Roman Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization [i] that grew out of the city-state [i] of Rome [i], founded in the Italian Peninsula [i] ... 

 era, Germania was the Latin Latin

Latin is an ancient Indo-European language [i] originally spoken in Latium [i], ... 

 name for a geographical area that stretched from the west bank of the Rhine Rhine

The Rhine River is one of the longest and most important river [i]s in Europe [i] at 1,320 kilometres [i] ... 

 to a vaguely-defined eastern frontier with the forest and steppe Steppe

In physical geography [i], a steppe , pronounced in English as step, is a plain [i] without tree [i] ... 

 regions of modern Russia Russia

Russia , also the Russian Federation , is a country [i] that stretches over a vast expanse of Eurasia [i] ... 

 and Ukraine Ukraine

Ukraine is a country [i] in Eastern Europe [i]. ... 

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1   Tiberius Tiberius

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, under order of Augustus, quelled revolts in Germania (1 - 5)

17   Beginning of a civil war in Germania.



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Dating back to the Roman Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization [i] that grew out of the city-state [i] of Rome [i], founded in the Italian Peninsula [i] ... 

 era, Germania was the Latin Latin

Latin is an ancient Indo-European language [i] originally spoken in Latium [i], ... 

 name for a geographical area that stretched from the west bank of the Rhine Rhine

The Rhine River is one of the longest and most important river [i]s in Europe [i] at 1,320 kilometres [i] ... 

 to a vaguely-defined eastern frontier with the forest and steppe Steppe

In physical geography [i], a steppe , pronounced in English as step, is a plain [i] without tree [i] ... 

 regions of modern Russia Russia

Russia , also the Russian Federation , is a country [i] that stretches over a vast expanse of Eurasia [i] ... 

 and Ukraine Ukraine

Ukraine is a country [i] in Eastern Europe [i]. ... 

 .

History


Germania was inhabited by different tribes, mostly Germanic Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples are groups of people identified by their use of the Germanic languages [i] that are ... 

 but also including Celtic Celt

The term Celt, normally pronounced // , refers to a member of any of a number of peoples in Europe u... 

, Baltic Balts

The Balts or Baltic peoples , defined as speakers of one of the Baltic languages [i], a branch of ... 

, Slavic Slavic peoples

The Slavic peoples are a linguistic and ethnic branch of Indo-European people [i]s, living mainly in Europe [i] ... 

 and Scythian Scythia

Scythia comprised an area in Eurasia [i] whose location and extent varied over time. ... 

, or steppe elements. Though Germanic tribes were in the majority, the ethnic makeup was complex and changed over the centuries as a result of migrations Human migration

Human Migration denotes any movement by human [i]s from one locality to another, often over long distanc ... 

. The Germanic people spoke Proto-Germanic Proto-Germanic language

Proto-Germanic is the common ancestor of all Germanic languages [i]. ... 

 dialects.

The classical world knew little about the people who inhabited the north of Europe before the second century BC. In the fifth century BC the Greeks were aware of a group they called Celt Celt

The term Celt, normally pronounced // , refers to a member of any of a number of peoples in Europe u... 

s . Herodotus Herodotus

Herodotus of Halicarnassus [i] was a Dorian Greek [i] historian who lived in the 5th century BC [i] ... 

 also mentioned the Scythians, but no other barbarian tribes. At around 320, Pytheas of Massalia Marseille

Marseille, is the second largest city in France [i] and the third metropolitan area [i], wi ... 

 sailed around Britain Roman Britain

[i] controlled by the [[Roman Empire]... 

 and along the northern coast of Europe, and what he found on his journeys were so unbelievable that later writers refused to believe him. He may have been the first Mediterranean to distinguish the Germanic people from the Celts. Caesar described the cultural differences between the Germanic tribesmen, the Romans and the Gauls. He said that the Gauls, although warlike, could be civilized, but the Germanic tribesmen were far more savage, and were a threat to Roman Gaul, and so had to be conquered. His accounts of barbaric northern tribes could be described as an expression of the superiority of Rome. The most complete account of Germania that has been preserved from Roman times is Tacitus Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus is one of the important historian [i]s of Roman Antiquity [i]. ... 

' Germania Germania

Dating back to the Roman [i] era, Germania was the Latin [i] name for a geographical area t ... 

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Regions

Germania was defined by Rome as having two regions: 'the inner Germania', west and south of the Rhine, occupied by the Romans, and 'the big Germania' east of the Rhine.
The occupied Germania was divided into two provinces: Germania Inferior Germania Inferior

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and Germania Superior Germania Superior

Germania Superior , so called for the reason that it lay upstream of Germania Inferior [i] from Rome [i] ... 

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See also

  • Limes Germanicus Limes Germanicus

    The Limes Germanicus was a remarkable line of frontier forts that bounded the ancient Roman province... 

  • "Welthauptstadt Germania"

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