Mogontiacum
Also known as Moguntiacum
Mogontiacum (also Moguntiacum) is the Latin name of today's city of Mainz, which it bore during its almost 500 years as part of the Roman Empire. Mogontiacum had its origins in the legionary camp built by Drusus in 13/12 BCE, which was strategically located on a above the Rhine and opposite the mouth of the Main on the .
Key facts
- Ancient site.caption
- City map of Mogontiacum in the period 1st century BCE to 5th century CE
- Ancient site.image
- Mogontiacum Plan.svg
- Ancient site.name
- Mogontiacum
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Moguntiacum
- Ancient site.type
- Roman city
- Ancient site.location
- Mainz, Germany
- Ancient site.built
- 13/12 BCE
- Ancient site.epochs
- Roman Empire
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- Naming
- History
- Foundation of ''Mogontiacum'' and history until Domitian (13/12 BCE to 90)
- Provincial capital and important military centre on the Rhine (90 to 260)
- Mogontiacum as a border town after the fall of the Limes (260 to 350)
- Decline of the city (350 to 450)
- Military importance
- Legion and military camp
- Stationed troops
- Base of the Rhine fleet
- Civilian Roman Mainz
- Legal status of the city in the Roman Empire
- Provincial capital Mogontiacum of the province of Germania superior
- Camp village and civilian settlement
- Civilian inland ports
- Stage theatre
- Roman Rhine bridge
- Aqueduct
- City wall and city gate
- Monuments
- Shrines and places of worship
- Trade and crafts
- Thermal and fort baths
- Burial grounds
- Large buildings that could not be localised
- Outside the gates of ''Mogontiacum''
- Late antique stud farm in Gonsenheim
- Significant individual finds
- Christianity in ''Mogontiacum''
- Bishops of the Roman period
- Roman church foundations
- Research history of ''Mogontiacum''
- Museum presentation of the Roman history of Mainz
- References
- External links
Mogontiacum (also Moguntiacum) is the Latin name of today's city of Mainz, which it bore during its almost 500 years as part of the Roman Empire. Mogontiacum had its origins in the legionary camp built by Drusus in 13/12 BCE, which was strategically located on a above the Rhine and opposite the mouth of the Main on the .
The civilian settlements (vici) in the vicinity of the camp, which spread down the Rhine, quickly grew together to form a larger, urbanised settlement. However, unlike Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Cologne) or Augusta Treverorum (Trier), Mogontiacum was primarily a military centre until the second half of the 4th century and was apparently not a colonia either. As a result, it never had the urban character of the other large Roman cities in Germany. Nevertheless, several monumental buildings were also erected here, as Mogontiacum was the provincial capital of the Roman province of Germania Superior with the seat of the governor as of the year 90 at the latest. After the middle of the 3rd century, when the Romans evacuated the Decumatian Fields, Mogontiacum once again became a border town and was devastated several times over the next 150 years by members of various Germanic peoples. After the end of the Roman period, but at the latest around 470, Mogontiacum belonged to the Frankish Kingdom after a brief transitional phase.