Roman frontiers

defensive fortification in Roman Britain

Meroë was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site is a group of villages called Bagrawiyah (). This city was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush for several centuries from around 590 BC, until its collapse in the 4th century AD. The Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë gave its name to the "Island of Meroë", which was the modern region of Butana, a region bounded by the Nile (from the Atbarah River to Khartoum), the Atbarah and the Blue Nile.

border defence or delimiting system of Ancient Rome

defensive fortification in Roman Britain

Roman province (106–275)

fortifications of ancient Roman provinces

portion of the Roman limes in Germany

World Heritage Site

Roman road in England, linking Exeter and Lincoln, later one of the "Four Highways" of medieval England

UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany, Netherlands

river in Croatia

desert frontier of the Roman Empire

Province of the Roman Empire (275-283)

any of several earthen fortifications in eastern Europe

world heritage site (limes in Germany and UK)

Archaeological site in Syria

Roman frontier defence line

Gerulata was a Roman military camp located near today's Rusovce, a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia. It was part of the Roman province of Pannonia and was built in the 2nd century as a part of the frontier defence system. It was abandoned in the 4th century, when Roman legions withdrew from Pannonia.

Celemantia (or Kelemantia; the modern name of the site is Leányvár) was a Roman castellum and settlement on the territory of the present-day municipality of Iža (Hun: Izsa), some 5.64 km to the east of Komárno in Slovakia. It is the biggest known Roman castellum in present-day Slovakia. It was a part of the Roman limes, the frontier zone of the Empire.

thumb|350px|Forts on Stanegate and Hadrian's wall

Roman fortified frontier

thumb|290px|Matilo's location in Leiden thumb|Map of the coast in Roman times superimposed on South Holland today, showing Matilo's location Matilo or Matilone was once a Roman fort (castellum) in modern-day Leiden. Positioned on the southern banks of the Oude Rijn, it served to protect the Roman borders in the province of Germania Inferior (Limes Germanicus). On the Peutinger map, it lies between the encampments of Albaniana (Alphen aan den Rijn) and Praetorium Agrippinae (Valkenburg). The seventh-century Ravenna Cosmography cites the name in the accusative case as Matellionem.

praetorium in Germania Inferior, Roman Empire

heritage site in Galați County, Romania

linear earthworks

Roman linear defensive structure in northern Africa

part of the Limes Africanus

Roman limes of Dacia (modern Romania)

former Roman fort in The Netherlands

Roman fortress in Eastern Europe

Roman frontier system in present-day Romania

generic Roman fortification

Military campaigns

Novaesium was the name the Romans used for the successive legionary camps and fortress at what is now the city of Neuss, on the west bank of the Rhine, in Germany. The earliest occupations, dating from the late 1st century BC to the early 1st century AD, were a succession of earth and timber camps with the legionaries living in tents. In around AD 43, a large legionary fortress was begun, which was progressively fortified with stone walls, gates, and turrets, along with more permanent barracks, officers' quarters and administrative buildings. As the Romans abandoned an expectation of a continu

thumb|upright=1.3|The hoard of Neupotz is directly linked to the plundering that took place after the Limesfall; hence it was also called the "Alemannian booty" (Alamannenbeute). thumb|upright=1.3| time table The Limesfall is the name given to the abandonment of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes (built in 1st century) in the mid-3rd century AD by the Romans and the withdrawal of imperial troops from the provinces on the far side of the rivers Rhine and Danube to the line of those rivers. It is sometimes called the fall of the limes.

Roman fort

thumb|Danube–Iller–Rhine Limes, Argentovaria in lower-left quadrant thumb|Layout of Argentovaria thumb|Reconstruction of the fort in the late 4th century Argentovaria, also known as Ödenburg, is the collective term for a late Roman military installation and a civilian settlement in the area of Biesheim in Alsace, France.

collection of Roman fortifications

Roman Defensive Fortifications