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Many different Romanised forms of this goddess ’ s name occur: Aeraecura at Perugia ; Aerecura at Mainz, Xanten, Aquileia and Roşia Montană ; Aericura at Sulzbach, Malsch, Eracura in Mautern, Austria, Ercura at Fliehburg, Erecura at Cannstatt, Tongeren and Belley in Aube ; Heracura at Stockstadt am Rhein, Herecura at Cannstatt, Freinsheim and Rottenburg am Neckar, where the form Herequra is also found.
Other cities attacked can be determined by the hagiographic vitae written to commemorate their bishops: Nicasius was slaughtered before the altar of his church in Rheims ; Servatus is alleged to have saved Tongeren with his prayers, as Genevieve is to have saved Paris.
Sint-Truiden (;, ) is a city and municipality located in the province of Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium, near the towns of Hasselt and Tongeren.
Tongeren (,, ) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg, in the southeastern corner of the Flemish region of Belgium.
Tongeren is the oldest town in Belgium, as the only Roman administrative capital in Belgium.
If it is not Tongeren itself, the Aduatuca of the Eburones might be the ancient fortification of Caestert in nearby Riemst.
The basilica's interior is home to the statue of Our Lady of Tongeren, executed in 1475.
Along with Tongeren, Tournai is the oldest city in Belgium and it has played an important role in the country's cultural history.
The village was evangelized by Saint Domitian, Bishop of Tongeren in the 6th century and the town is mentioned for the first time in a 7th century testament.
The film, which is violent and sexually graphic, is a high-speed coming of age story which centers on three young men dreaming of an escape from their provincial surroundings by means of a motocross career: young motocross racing champion Rien ( Hans van Tongeren ), another racer who thinks he has the goods, Hans (), and the son of a Bible thumping Calvinist, the mechanic Eef ().
Their name is the source of several place names in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, including Tongeren, and several places called Tongerloo, and Tongelre.
Their tribal capital lay at Atuatuca ( or Aduatuca ) Tungrorum, probably modern Tongeren in the Limburg province of Belgium ( the word Atuatuca is thought to have probably meant fortress ).
On the other hand, Caesar places Atuatuca, the fort of the Eburones, about the middle of the territory of the Eburones ; and it is possible this was Tongeren, which had the ancient name of Aduatuca Tungrorum.
The location of the Aduatuci is not clear, but their name appears to be related to the names of both the capital of the Eburones " Aduatuca " and the capital of the later Tungri " Aduatuca Tungrorum " ( modern Tongeren ) which may have been the same place.
Patrick Dewael lives in Tongeren, a town of which he is also the mayor.
He most likely was born in the town of Lauw near Tongeren in the province of Limburg, though the date is only known approximately.
Jelle van Tongeren ( born April 24, 1980 ) is a Dutch jazz violinist born in Haarlem, Netherlands.
Its source is near Tongeren.
Saint Servatius (; ) ( died in Maastricht, traditionally in 384 ) was bishop of Tongeren — Latin: Atuatuca Tungrorum the capital of the Tungri — and is revered as a Roman Catholic saint.

Tongeren and capital
Among these municipalities are Hasselt, the current capital, Borgloon, the early medieval capital, Genk, a major economic centre, Diepenbeek, home to Hasselt University, and Tongeren, the only Roman city in the province and known as the oldest city of Belgium.
The Romans referred to Tongeren as Aduatuca Tungrorum or Atuatuca Tongrorum, and it was the capital of the large Roman province of Civitas Tungrorum, an area which covered modern Belgian Limburg, and at least parts of all the areas around it.
The principal settlements of the province were Castra Vetera and Colonia Ulpia Traiana ( both near Xanten ), Coriovallum ( Heerlen ), Albaniana ( Alphen aan den Rijn ), Lugdunum Batavorum ( Katwijk ), Forum Hadriani ( Voorburg ), Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum ( Nijmegen ), Traiectum ( Utrecht ), Atuatuca Tungrorum ( Tongeren ), Bona ( Bonn ), and Colonia Agrippinensis ( Cologne ), the capital of Germania Inferior.
The Roman province of Germania Inferior, showing Atuatuca, modern Tongeren, the capital of the Tungri ( Tongres ).
They lived between the Scheldt and Rhine, with their capital in Tongeren.
The boundaries of the original diocese were those of the Civitas Tungrorum, the capital of which was Tongeren, northwest of Liège.
Within this area, the future Duchy was within the Civitas Tungrorum, the polity of the Tungri, with its capital at Tongeren.

Tongeren and province
This province was much larger than the modern Belgium and included five cities: Nemetacum ( Arras ), Divodurum ( Metz ), Bagacum ( Bavay ), Atuatuca Tongrorum ( Tongeren ), Durocorturum ( Reims ).
The northeastern corner of this province, including Tongeren and the area of the earlier Germani, was united with the militarized Rhine border to form a newer province known as Germania Inferior.
The Demer river's drainage basin covers most of the central and southern part of the province, except for the southeastern corner, where the Jeker ( in French: ( le ) Geer ) runs past Tongeren and into the river Maas ( in French: ( la ) Meuse ) at Maastricht.
It has been suggested that this refers to the well-known waters of Spa in the province of Liège, or else to waters found at Tongeren, which are suitably iron-bearing, and today referred to as the " Plinius bron ".

Tongeren and .
On 17 May the Duke concentrated his Dutch and English troops at Tongeren, near Maastricht.
The Robertians probably originated in the county Hesbaye, around Tongeren in modern-day Belgium.
In the first century AD, the Eburones were replaced or absorbed by the Germanic Tungri, and the city was known as Atuatuca Tungrorum, i. e. the modern city of Tongeren.
In 358, Julian gained victories over the Salian Franks on the Lower Rhine, settling them in Toxandria in the Roman Empire, north of today's city of Tongeren, and over the Chamavi, who were expelled back to Hamaland.
According to legend, the Armenian-born Saint Servatius, bishop of Tongeren, died in Maastricht in 384 and was buried there along the Roman road, outside the castrum.
* Lambert ( c. 636 – c. 700 ), bishop of Maastricht ( Tongeren )
In Celtic areas, Mercury was sometimes portrayed with three heads or faces, and at Tongeren, Belgium, a statuette of Mercury with three phalli was found, with the extra two protruding from his head and replacing his nose ; this was probably because the number 3 was considered magical, making such statues good luck and fertility charms.
** September – The siege and capture of Aduatuca ( Tongeren ) by Caesar.
* Tongeren, Mark C. van ( 2002 ).
Other population centres of interest are Emst, Gortel, Tongeren, Wissel and Zuuk.
His colleagues at the studio have included Harry Gregson-Williams, James Dooley, Geoff Zanelli, Henning Lohner, Steve Jablonsky, Mark Mancina, John Van Tongeren, John Powell and Thomas J. Bergersen.
In the 8th century, Hubertus, archbishop of Tongeren, founded a church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, which may have been the start of the devotion that still continues today.
There are also important traffic arteries to Tongeren, Sint-Truiden, Maastricht, Genk, Diest and Eindhoven.
The Romans built the road from Tongeren to Venlo via Munsterbilzen and As.
While situated close to the " Roman " Tongeren, a lot of traces from the Roman empire were found in the fertile soil of Hoeselt.

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