Curated category
Roman frontiers
- Upper Germanic-Rhaetian LimesThe Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes stretches 550 kilometres across the landscape between the rivers Rhine and Danube. It runs from Rheinbrohl to Eining on the…
- Limes (Roman Empire)The Latin word limes appears in a text by Tacitus dated 98 AD. This document marks the first known use of the term to mean land border.
- Borders of the Roman EmpireThe word limes appears in modern scholarship to describe the Roman Empire's frontier, yet Romans never used it that way.
- Hadrian's WallEmperor Hadrian ordered the start of a massive stone wall in 122 AD. This project spanned from Wallsend on the River Tyne to Bowness-on-Solway.
- Antonine WallRoman Emperor Antoninus Pius issued a directive in 142 AD to build a new frontier across the Central Belt of Scotland. This order came from Rome, yet the…