Frontiers of the Roman Empire
in the second century AD
Frontiers of the Roman Empire is a World Heritage Site. The site includes three walls in different parts of Europe. They were part of the frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Limes
Limes (plural: 'Limites') is the Latin name of walls at the border of the Roman empire. There were many such fortifications.[1]
The Latin word has a number of meanings, but the most common one is border.[2]
The term limes was used by Roman writers to describe paths, walls, boundary stones, rivers marking a boundary,[1] but its meaning was not the same as the modern boundary.[2]
Some notable examples of Roman limites are:
- Limes Arabicus — the frontier of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea facing the desert[3]
- Limites Britannicus — Hadrian's Wall; Antonine Wall[4]
- Limes Germanicus — Upper Germanic & Rhaetian Limes[4]
- Limes Saxoniae — a medieval limes in Holstein
- Limes Tripolitanus — the frontier in modern Libya facing the Sahara[5]
Gallery
- Limes01.jpg
Reconstructed Limes
- Ostkastell Welzheim.jpg
A fortification on the Limes
- Holzwachturm am rätischen Limes (Rekonstruktion) - Wp12 77.jpg
Reconstructed wooden watchtower
- Limes in Britain, 122.gif
Hadrian's Wall
Frontiers Of The Roman Empire Media
- Roman Empire 125 political map.svg
Roman Empire 125 AD near its maximum extent
- Costantino nord-limes png.PNG
Northern Frontiers in 337 AD showing the reconquests of Constantine the Great
- Roman Empire with dioceses in 400 AD.png
Roman Empire with dioceses in 400 AD
- Gask Ridge Limes 85 n. chr.png
Römische Kastelle in Zentralschottland (Gask Ridge), 1. bis 2. Jahrhundert n.Chr.
- Roman.Britain.north.155.jpg
Map of forts and walls in North Britain around 155 AD (most forts on and south of Hadrian's Wall have been omitted)
- Litus Saxonicum.png
Map of British and Gallic forts on the Saxon Shore
- Limes1.png
Map of the legion camps and forts in Germania Inferior
- Limes2.png
Map of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes
- Historische Karte CH Rome 1.png
Location of the Roman camps on the Rhine-Lake Constance line and in the hinterland provinces of Maxima Sequanorum and Raetia I, 3rd century AD
- Limes3.png
Map of Limes in Austria (system of fortifications representing the boundary of Roman control)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Livius.org, Limes Archived 2008-08-07 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-4-25.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ellenblum, Roni. (2006). Crusader castles and modern histories, p. 122; excerpt, "...it is the modern traveller and scholar who attributes to the limes all the meanings of a boundary line. The Roman sources themselves are mute concerning the existence of border lines, and it was modern scholarship which assumed that the Romans were capable of realizing in practice what they could not define verbally."
- ↑ Livius.org, Mobene (Qasr Bshir); retrieved 2012-4-25.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 UNESCO, "Frontiers of the Roman Empire"; retrieved 2012-4-25.
- ↑ Livius.org, Limes Tripolitanus Archived 2007-02-07 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-4-25.
Other websites
- 16x16px Media related to Limes (frontier) at Wikimedia Commons
- 16x16px Media related to Limes (Upper Germanic) at Wikimedia Commons
- Verein Deutsche Limes-Straße Archived 2016-02-06 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- Römische Militärbauten und -anlagen Archived 2016-01-04 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire : UNESCO Official Website
