Central Europe

This category is meant for anything outside the Roman world, except for the German tribes.

There are 60 items in Central Europe:

Indo-Europeans

Indo-Europeans: general name for the people speaking an Indo-European language. They are (linguistic) descendants of the people of the Yamnaya culture (c.3600-2300 BCE) in Ukraine and southern Russia, and settled in the area from Western Europe to India in various migrations in…

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Mikulov, Regional Museum

Mikulov is just north of the Austrian-Czech border. It is dominated by a beautiful castle on a mountain, in which you will find several museums, one of them dedicated to the archaeological evidence for the presence of Romans and Germans…

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Požarevac, Museum of Viminacium

The ancient city of Viminacium is situated at the place where the river Mlava empties itself into the Danube. This means that here, three important roads came together: the road upstream along the Danube to Pannonia and the Adriatic Sea,…

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Roman Thrace

Thrace: Roman province in what is now Bulgaria.Roman Conquest 29/28 BCE: Moesian war of Crassus 11 CE: The Romans suppress a revolt of the Bessae 15 CE: Creation of the Moesian provinces along the Danube 26 CE: Poppaeus Sabinus suppresses a Thracian revolt c.30 CE: Novae…

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