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* Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier, in Germany ) was the capital of Constantius Chlorus, the western Caesar, near the strategic Rhine border, it had been the capital of Gallic emperor Tetricus I ; this quarter became the prefecture Galliae.
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Augusta and Treverorum
In historical time, the Roman Empire subdued the Treveri in the 1st century BC and established Augusta Treverorum ( Lit: August ( Regal, noble ) of the Treveri ) in 30 BC.
* Naval clashes on the Rhine during the Batavian Revolt ; crew of a captured Roman flagship is imprisoned at Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ).
* The Franks conquer new territories in their kingdom and sack the old Roman capital Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ).
* Gratian, age 16, takes over the government at Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ), but ministers wishing to retain the loyalty of the Illyrian army and fearing a usurper.
** Augusta Treverorum ( Trier, in Germany ) becomes the capital of Constantius Chlorus
* Victorinus is declared emperor of the Gallic Empire by the legions at Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ), following the murders of his predecessors.
* April – Roman usurper Maxentius banishes his father, Maximian, who flees to the court of Constantine the Great in Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ).
* Constantine I established his capital in Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ).
* Constantine I begins to build the Basilica of Constantine in Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ).
A temporary peace is signed with Macrian, king of the Bucinobantes, and Valentinian returns to his capital Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ).
He established his residence in Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ), capital of Germania.
* Immense baths are constructed in Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ).
Maximus made his capital at Augusta Treverorum ( Treves, Trier ) in Gaul, and ruled Britain, Gaul, Spain and Africa.
Constantius ’ capital was to be located at Augusta Treverorum.
The arrival of Quintus Petillius Cerialis with a strong force awed the Gauls and mutinous troops into submission ; Civilis was defeated at Augusta Treverorum ( Trier, Trèves ) and Castra Vetera, and forced to withdraw to the island of the Batavians.
The new Caesar soon held residence in Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ), regional capital of Germania.
A second campaign, led by Gallienus himself, also seemed to have the advantage over Postumus, but while Gallienus was besieging a city in Gaul ( probably Augusta Treverorum ), he was wounded and forced to withdraw.
Seeking to solidify his power base, he then moved to Augusta Treverorum.
His reign lasted no more than two or three months before Postumus ’ praetorian prefect Victorinus had Marius killed in the middle of 269, most likely at Augusta Treverorum
In 293, with the establishment of tetrarchy, the Roman Empire was split into four parts ; Sirmium became one of the four capital cities of Roman Empire, the other three being Augusta Treverorum, Mediolanum, and Nicomedia ( modern Trier, Milan and Izmit ).
Novaesium, together with Trier ( Augusta Treverorum ), is one of the three oldest Roman settlements in Germany.
Its capital was Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ), and it quickly expanded its control over the German and Gaulish provinces and over all of Hispania and Britannia.
The medieval Gesta Treverorum compiled by monks of Trier claims that the Belgae were descendants of Trebeta, an otherwise unattested legendary founder of Trier, the Roman Augusta Treverorum, " Augusta of the Treveri ".
Augusta and modern
The often-unreliable Historia Augusta states that he served in Gaul, but this account is not corroborated by other sources and is ignored by modern historians of the period.
Bracara Augusta, the modern city of Braga in Portugal, previously the capital of Roman Gallaecia, now became the capital of the Suebic kingdom.
* The Roman general Nero Claudius Drusus fortifies Augusta Vangionum, the modern city of Worms, Germany.
* Caesar Augustus makes Beeroth ( modern Beirut ) a colonia, named Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Berytus.
* Britain is divided in the north, Lower Britain ( Britannia Inferior ) administered from the fortress at Eburacum ( modern York ), and in the south, Upper Britain ( Britannia Superior ) controlled by the legions at Deva Victrix and Isca Augusta, with its capital at Londinium ( London ).
Bracara Augusta, the modern city of Braga in Portugal, previously the capital of Roman Gallaecia, now became the capital of the Suebic kingdom in Gallaecia.
If Rauricum is to be identified with the Roman settlement, Augusta Raurica, modern Augst in Basel-Landschaft canton of Switzerland, Pliny must be confusing the Rhine and its tributaries with the Danube.
The road followed Indian trails from Fort Augusta in what is now Sunbury to Bald Eagle Creek near modern day Lock Haven.
In 1797, the modern city of Augusta split from Hallowell to be a separate town.
The capital city was an ancient Celtic settlement named in honour of the god Lugh ( see Lyon ), later Latinised as Lucus Augusti, and which became one of the three main important Galician-Roman centres alongside Braccara Augusta and Asturica Augusta ( modern Braga and Astorga respectively ).
Fort Western was a colonial outpost at the head of navigation on the Kennebec River at modern Augusta, Maine, United States.
It was on the road from Emerita ( modern Mérida ) to Asturica Augusta ( modern Astorga ).
The colony derived its title from the names of Agrippina and her husband, the emperor Claudius, and received the name Colonia Claudia Ara Augusta Agrippinensium, which is the origin of the city ’ s modern name Cologne.
After the defeat of Boudica, the legion was dispersed over several bases ; from 66 to around 74 it was stationed at Glevum ( modern Gloucester ), and then moved to Isca Augusta ( modern Caerleon ), building a stone fortress that the soldiers occupied until the end of the 3rd century.
Augusta and Trier
The newer Gallia Belgica included the cities of Camaracum ( Cambrai ), Nemetacum ( Arras ), Samarobriua ( Amiens ), Durocorter ( Reims ), Diuidorum ( Metz ) and Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ).
Cities like Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ) eclipsed Lugdunum in importance.
Their domain lay within the southern fringes of the Silva Arduenna ( Ardennes Forest ), a part of the vast Silva Carbonaria, in what are now Luxembourg, southeastern Belgium and western Germany ; its centre was the city of Trier ( Augusta Treverorum ), to which the Treveri give their name.
Augusta and Germany
In 1892 Germany had launched the protected cruiser Kaiserin Augusta, the first navy ship to have triple propellers.
* Legio II Augusta, XX Valeria Victrix, and XIII Gemina move to Germany to replace Legio XIX and the others destroyed at Teutoburg.
Her father was the ruler of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in modern-day Germany, and her mother, Princess Augusta, was the sister of George III.
The University of Göttingen (, GAU ), known informally as Georgia Augusta, is a university in the city of Göttingen, Germany.
Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( Helena Frederica Augusta ; later Duchess of Albany ; 17 February 1861 – 1 September 1922 ), who became a member of the British Royal Family by marriage, was the daughter of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( regions now in Germany ) and his wife Princess Helena of Nassau ( also in Germany ).
Although she spent most of her adult life in Germany, the Grand Duchess Augusta retained close personal ties to the British royal family.
She was born Maria Martha Mathilde Triepcke in Frederiksberg, Denmark to Wilhelm August Eduard Max and Minna Augusta Kindler Triepcke, who had immigrated to Denmark from Germany the previous year.
In 1851, he departed to study chemistry and botany at Georgia Augusta University in Germany, now known as the University of Göttingen, where he earned his Ph. D. in chemistry in 1852.
Occasionally styled as Hamburgh ( especially after The War ), the town was named after Shultz's home town in Germany, and was located at 33. 4799 ° N, 81. 9579 ° W directly across the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia.
Colonia Augusta Treverorum ( now Trier, Germany ) was the capital of their civitas under the Empire.
During the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius and Claudius, and particularly when Drusus and Germanicus were active in Gaul, Augusta Treverorum rose to considerable importance as a base and supply centre for campaigns in Germany.
On 13 July 1891 Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, wife of Kaiser Wilhiem II of Germany and a relative of Queen Victoria, arrived on a train at Felixstowe Beach station.
Augusta felt the Imperial Crown a personal defeat ; she wanted the Prussian supremacy in Germany to succeed by " moral conquest " and not by bloodshed.
Reutte is located at the Via Claudia Augusta, a Roman road, leading from Italy to Germany.
Many of Burian's early paintings appeared in a series of large format books with text by Augusta, the first of which, Prehistoric Animals, was originally published in Czechoslovakia by Artia ( 1956 ) and later in many other countries including Italy, France, Germany, England and Japan.
While traveling through Germany with his family in June 1871, Grand Duke Vladimir met Duchess Marie Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ( 14 May 1854 – 6 September 1920 ), daughter of Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Augusta of Reuss-Köstritz.
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