Germania Inferior

"Germania Inferior" was the name of a province of the Roman Empire, more or less identical with the southern part of the Netherlands and a piece of western Germany. In this category, you will also find articles about the land across the Rhine and the adjacent provinces: Germania Superior and Gallia Belgica.

There are 688 items in Germania Inferior:

Nijmegen, Aqueduct

The Roman legionary base at the Hunerberg offered accomodation to thousands of men, mules, and horses. The all needed lots of water - more water than was locally available. The solution was the construction of a simple aqueduct. The wells…

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Nijmegen, Batavodurum

Nijmegen: city in the Netherlands, where several Roman settlements have been discovered.Origin When the Romans built the legionary base at the Hunerberg, they started to live in a friendly territory. The local tribe, the Batavians, had been settled there recently, perhaps…

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