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Danubian Limes

Index Danubian Limes

The Danubian Limes (Donaulimes), or Danube Limes, refers to the Roman military frontier or Limes which lies along the River Danube in the present-day German state of Bavaria, in Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. [1]

72 relations: Anastasius I Dicorus, Austria, Bavaria, Belgrade, Bulgaria, Bulgars, Castra, Comagena, Commodus, Danube, Danube Delta, Ditch (fortification), Eferding, Engelhartstetten, Engelhartszell an der Donau, Enns (river), Fels am Wagram, Fischamend, Gerda von Bülow, Germany, Haibach ob der Donau, Hungary, Justinian I, Klosterneuburg, Kozloduy, Lauriacum, Limes, Limes Moesiae, Linz, Lom (town), Marcomanni, Marcus Aurelius, Maurice's Balkan campaigns, Mautern an der Donau, Melk, Mikulov, Moesia, Neckar-Odenwald Limes, Novae, Oescus, Pannonian Limes, Pöchlarn, Petronell-Carnuntum, Phocas, Rampart (fortification), Ratiaria, Roman legion, Roman roads, Romania, Rossatz-Arnsdorf, ..., Ruse, Bulgaria, Sankt Pantaleon-Erla, Schwechat, Serbia, Silistra, Singidunum, Slovakia, Svishtov, Tiberius, Traismauer, Trajan, Tulln an der Donau, Upper Austria, Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, Valentinian I, Vienna, Viminacium, Vindobona, Wallsee-Sindelburg, Watchtower, Zeiselmauer-Wolfpassing, Zwentendorf. Expand index (22 more) »

Anastasius I Dicorus

Anastasius I (Flavius Anastasius Augustus; Ἀναστάσιος; 9 July 518) was Byzantine Emperor from 491 to 518.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Bavaria

Bavaria (Bavarian and Bayern), officially the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner.

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Belgrade

Belgrade (Beograd / Београд, meaning "White city",; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Serbia.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.

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Bulgars

The Bulgars (also Bulghars, Bulgari, Bolgars, Bolghars, Bolgari, Proto-Bulgarians) were Turkic semi-nomadic warrior tribes that flourished in the Pontic-Caspian steppe and the Volga region during the 7th century.

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Castra

In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (plural castra) was a building, or plot of land, used as a fortified military camp.

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Comagena

Comagena was a fortified Roman camp on the Danube, on the site of the modern town of Tulln on the Danube in Lower Austria, Austria.

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Commodus

Commodus (31 August 161– 31 December 192AD), born Lucius Aurelius Commodus and died Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus, was Roman emperor with his father Marcus Aurelius from177 to his father's death in 180, and solely until 192.

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Danube

The Danube or Donau (known by various names in other languages) is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga.

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Danube Delta

The Danube Delta (Delta Dunării; Дельта Дунаю, Deľta Dunayu) is the second largest river delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent.

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Ditch (fortification)

A ditch in military engineering is an obstacle, designed to slow down or break up an attacking force, while a trench is intended to provide cover to the defenders.

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Eferding

is the capital of the Eferding district in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

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Engelhartstetten

Engelhartstetten is a town in the district of Gänserndorf in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

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Engelhartszell an der Donau

Engelhartszell an der Donau is a municipality in the district of Schärding in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

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Enns (river)

The Enns is a southern tributary of the Danube River, joining northward at Enns, Austria.

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Fels am Wagram

Fels am Wagram is a municipality in the district of Tulln in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

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Fischamend

Fischamend is a city in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

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Gerda von Bülow

Gerda Carola Frederikke von Bülow, often known as Gerda Bülow, (1904–1990) was a Danish violinist and music educator.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Haibach ob der Donau

Haibach ob der Donau is a municipality in the district of Eferding in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, Austria.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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Justinian I

Justinian I (Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus Augustus; Flávios Pétros Sabbátios Ioustinianós; 482 14 November 565), traditionally known as Justinian the Great and also Saint Justinian the Great in the Eastern Orthodox Church, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565.

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Klosterneuburg

Klosterneuburg is a town in Tulln District in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

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Kozloduy

Kozloduy is a town of 13,771 inhabitants in northwest Bulgaria, located in Vratsa Province, on the Danube River.

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Lauriacum

Map of the Danubeian Limes.Reconstruction of the camp and adjoining oppidium.Lauriacum was an important legionary Roman town on the Danube Limes in Austria.

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Limes

Originally the Latin noun līmes (Latin līmitēs) had a number of different meanings: a path or balk delimiting fields, a boundary line or marker, any road or path, any channel, such as a stream channel, or any distinction or difference.

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Limes Moesiae

The Moesian Limes or Limes Moesiae is the modern term given to a collection of Roman fortifications between the Black Sea shore and Pannonia, present-day Hungary, consisting primarily of forts along the Danube (so-called Danubian Limes) to protect the Roman provinces of Upper and Lower Moesia south of the river.

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Linz

Linz (Linec) is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria (Oberösterreich).

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Lom (town)

Lom (Лом) is a town in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Montana Province, situated on the right bank of the Danube, close to the estuary of the Lom River.

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Marcomanni

The Marcomanni were a Germanic tribal confederation who eventually came to live in a powerful kingdom north of the Danube, somewhere in the region near modern Bohemia, during the peak of power of the nearby Roman Empire.

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180 AD) was Roman emperor from, ruling jointly with his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus, until Verus' death in 169, and jointly with his son, Commodus, from 177.

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Maurice's Balkan campaigns

Maurice's Balkan campaigns were a series of military expeditions conducted by Eastern Roman Emperor Maurice (reigned 582–602) in an attempt to defend the Balkan provinces of the Eastern Roman Empire from the Avars and the Slavs.

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Mautern an der Donau

Mautern an der Donau is a town in the district of Krems-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

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Melk

Melk (older spelling: Mölk) is a city of Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube.

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Mikulov

Mikulov (Nikolsburg; ניקאלשבורג, Nikolshburg) is a town in the Moravia, South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Moesia

Moesia (Latin: Moesia; Μοισία, Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River.

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Neckar-Odenwald Limes

The Neckar-Odenwald Limes (Neckar-Odenwald-Limes) is a collective term for two, very different early sections of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, a Roman defensive frontier line that may have been utilised during slightly different periods in history.

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Novae

Novae was initially one of the few great Roman legionary fortresses along the empire's border, forming part of the defences (limes Moesiae) along the Danube in northern Bulgaria.

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Oescus

Oescus, or Palatiolon Palatiolum, (Улпия Ескус) was an ancient town along the Danube river, in Moesia, northwest of the modern Bulgarian city of Pleven, near the village of Gigen.

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Pannonian Limes

The Pannonian Limes (Limes Pannonicus, Pannonischer Limes) is that part of the old Roman fortified frontier known as the Danubian Limes that runs for approximately 420 kilometres from the Roman camp of Klosterneuburg in the Vienna Basin in Austria to the castrum in Singidunum (Belgrade) in present-day Serbia.

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Pöchlarn

Pöchlarn (Böchlarn) is a town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

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Petronell-Carnuntum

Petronell-Carnuntum is a community of Bruck an der Leitha in Austria.

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Phocas

Phocas (Flavius Phocas Augustus; Φωκᾶς, Phokas; – 5 October 610) was Byzantine Emperor from 602 to 610.

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Rampart (fortification)

In fortification architecture, a rampart is a length of bank or wall forming part of the defensive boundary of a castle, hillfort, settlement or other fortified site.

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Ratiaria

Ratiaria (or: Raetiaria, Retiaria, Reciaria, Razaria; Рациария; Ραζαρία μητρόπολις) was a city founded by the Moesians, a Daco-Thracian tribe, in the 4th century BC, along the river Danube.

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Roman legion

A Roman legion (from Latin legio "military levy, conscription", from legere "to choose") was a large unit of the Roman army.

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Roman roads

Roman roads (Latin: viae Romanae; singular: via Romana meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

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Romania

Romania (România) is a sovereign state located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

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Rossatz-Arnsdorf

Rossatz-Arnsdorf is a town in the district of Krems-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

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Ruse, Bulgaria

Ruse (also transliterated as Rousse, Russe or Rusçuk; Русе) is the fifth largest city in Bulgaria.

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Sankt Pantaleon-Erla

Sankt Pantaleon-Erla is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria.

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Schwechat

Schwechat is a town southeast of Vienna known for the Vienna International Airport and Schwechater beer.

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Serbia

Serbia (Србија / Srbija),Pannonian Rusyn: Сербия; Szerbia; Albanian and Romanian: Serbia; Slovak and Czech: Srbsko,; Сърбия.

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Silistra

Silistra (Силистра Dârstor) is a port city in northeastern Bulgaria.

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Singidunum

Singidunum (Сингидунум/Singidunum, from Celtic *Sindi-dūn-) is the name for the ancient city which evolved into Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.

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Slovakia

Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Svishtov

Svishtov (Свищов, known as Свѣщний / Sveshtniy in old Bulgarian) is a town in northern Bulgaria, located in Veliko Tarnovo Province on the right bank of the Danube river opposite the Romanian town of Zimnicea.

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Tiberius

Tiberius (Tiberius Caesar Divi Augusti filius Augustus; 16 November 42 BC – 16 March 37 AD) was Roman emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD, succeeding the first emperor, Augustus.

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Traismauer

Traismauer is a municipality in the district of Sankt Pölten-Land in Lower Austria, Austria.

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Trajan

Trajan (Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajanus Divi Nervae filius Augustus; 18 September 538August 117 AD) was Roman emperor from 98 to 117AD.

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Tulln an der Donau

Tulln an der Donau (Tulln on the Danube) is a historic town in the Austrian state of Lower Austria, the administrative seat of Tulln District.

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Upper Austria

Upper Austria (Oberösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: Obaöstarreich; Horní Rakousy) is one of the nine states or Bundesländer of Austria.

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Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes

The Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes (Obergermanisch-Raetische Limes), or ORL, is a 550-kilometre-long section of the former external frontier of the Roman Empire between the rivers Rhine and Danube.

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Valentinian I

Valentinian I (Flavius Valentinianus Augustus; Οὐαλεντινιανός; 3 July 32117 November 375), also known as Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Viminacium

Viminacium (VIMINACIUM) or Viminatium was a major city (provincial capital) and military camp of the Roman province of Moesia (today's Serbia), and the capital of Moesia Superior (hence once Metropolitan archbishopric, now a Latin titular see).

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Vindobona

Vindobona (from Gaulish windo- "white" and bona "base/bottom") was a Roman military camp on the site of the modern city of Vienna in Austria.

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Wallsee-Sindelburg

Wallsee-Sindelburg is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria.

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Watchtower

A watchtower is a type of fortification used in many parts of the world.

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Zeiselmauer-Wolfpassing

Zeiselmauer-Wolfpassing is a community located in the district of Tulln in the Austrian federal state of Lower Austria.

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Zwentendorf

Zwentendorf an der Donau is a small market municipality in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danubian_Limes

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