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:

Caesar on the Usipetes and Tencteri

Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 - 15 March 44 BCE), Roman statesman, general, author, famous for the conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium) and his subsequent coup d'état. He changed the Roman republic into a monarchy and laid…

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Calo

Calo: unidentified Roman fort, part of the Rhine limes.Calo was a fort of a Roman cavalry squadron, halfway between Xanten and Moers-Asberg. Although the military settlement is mentioned in our sources, it is still unidentified. As the Rhine is a…

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Cananefates

Cananefates: tribal formation in the west of the Roman province of Germania Inferior.Origin Adiutor, a Cananefatic horseman Also spelled Cannenefates; prounounced with…

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