History of Trier

former archdiocese and state of the Holy Roman Empire (898–1801)

ecclesiastical building in Trier, Germany

frame|right|Modern reconstruction of Treveran dwellings at Altburg, Germany. The Treveri (Gaulish: *Trēueroi) were a Celtic–Germanic tribe of the Belgae group who inhabited the lower valley of the Moselle in modern day Germany from around 150 BCE, if not earlier, until their displacement by the Franks. Their domain lay within the southern fringes of the Silva Arduenna (Ardennes Forest), a part of the vast Silva Carbonaria, in what are now Luxembourg, southeastern Belgium and western Germany; its centre was the city of Augusta Treverorum (Trier), to which the Treveri give their name. Although r

roman amphitheatre in Trier, Germany

ancient structure in Trier, Germany

UNESCO World Heritage Site in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

example of a large Roman capital after the division of the empire

diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany

Roman baths in Trier, Germany

Roman site, in modern-day Trier, Germany

German-Italian saint and hermit

administrative district in Rhineland-Palatinate (1815–1999)

In Gallo-Roman religion, the Xulsigiae were triple goddesses worshipped at the healing-spring shrine in Augusta Treverorum (present-day Trier). Edith Wightman suggests that they "may be local nymphs of the spring"; on the other hand, she also links their name to that of the Suleviae, whom she characterizes as "domestic goddesses". Their temple, a smaller shrine near the monumental Lenus Mars temple, has also yielded clay figures of the genii cucullati. The name itself is attested only from one inscription, where it accompanies that of Lenus Mars:

vehicle ramming incident in 2020 in Germany

Roman baths in Trier, Germany

literary work