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In about 11 BC, the Roman Army appears to have stationed a small unit in what is presently the historical centre of the town.
Even earlier, the Army had resettled members of a Germanic tribal group allied with Rome, the Ubii, in Bonn.
The Latin name for that settlement, " Bonna ", may stem from the original population of this and many other settlements in the area, the Eburoni.
The Eburoni were members of a large tribal coalition effectively wiped out during the final phase of Caesar's War in Gaul.
During the 1st century AD, the Army then chose a site to the north of the emerging town in what is now the section of Bonn-Castell to build a large military installation dubbed Castra Bonnensis, i. e., literally, " Fort Bonn ".
With additions, changes and new construction, the fort remained in use by the Army into the waning days of the Western Roman Empire, possibly the mid-5th century.
The structures themselves remained standing well into the Middle Ages, when they were called the Bonnburg.
Eventually, much of the building materials seem to have been re-used in the construction of Bonn's 13th century city wall.
The Sterntor ( star gate ) in the town centre is a reconstruction using the last remnants of the medieval city wall.
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