🧿 Limes Germanicus

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The Limes Germanicus, or 'Germanic Limes', is the name given in modern times to a line of frontier fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior and Raetia, separating the Roman Empire and the unsubdued Germanic tribes from about 83 AD to 260 AD. The frontier used either a natural boundary such as a river or typically an earth bank and ditch with a wooden palisade and watchtowers at intervals, and a system of linked forts was built behind them.

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Limes Germanicus is located in Netherlands, in Europe.

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Dorestad · Fectio · Krijn · Lower Germanic Limes · Matilo · Papeloze Kerk · Rechteren Castle · Vorstengraf (Oss).

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