Germany in the Roman era

thumb|400x400px|Several different regions called Germania (modern borders in green) Germania ( ; ), also more specifically called Magna Germania (English: Greater Germania), Germania Libera (English: Free Germania), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, was a historical region in north-central Europe during the Roman era, which was associated by Roman authors with the Germanic peoples. According to Roman geographers, this region stretched roughly from the Rhine in the west to the Vistula in the east, and to the Upper Danub

Roman province

Roman province (83 - 475)

Hachelbich () is a small village (probably created as a vicus of a roman castrum) and a former municipality in the district Kyffhäuserkreis, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 31 December 2012, it is part of the municipality Kyffhäuserland.

thumb|right|The eleven prefectures of the Duke of Mainz in [[Notitia Dignitatum. Castle Vangionis is the 2nd up from the bottom in the left column.]] The Vangiones appear first in history as an ancient Germanic tribe of unknown provenance. They threw in their lot with Ariovistus in his bid of 58 BC to invade Gaul through the Doubs river valley and lost to Julius Caesar in a battle probably near Belfort. After some Celts evacuated the region in fear of the Suebi, the Vangiones, who had made a Roman peace, were allowed to settle among the Mediomatrici in northern Alsace. (Metz however is now in

The Vindelici (Gaulish: ) were a Gallic people dwelling around present-day Augsburg (Bavaria) during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

ancient Roman city

ancient sanctuary in Mainz, dedicated to Isis Panthea and Magna Mater

thumb|350px|right|Location of Flevum castrum/port in the northwest of Germania Inferior near [[Fectio ]] Flevum was a castrum and port of the Romans in Frisia (actual northern Netherlands), built when emperor Augustus wanted to conquer the German populated territories between the Rhine river and the Elbe river.