The Germania begins with a description of the lands, laws, and customs of the Germanic people ( Chapters 1 – 27 ); it then segues into descriptions of individual tribes, beginning with those dwelling closest to Roman lands and ending on the uttermost shores of the Baltic, among the amber-gathering Aesti, the Fenni, and the unknown tribes beyond them.

She was first betrothed to a distant cousin, Quinctilius Varus, son of the ill-fated governor of Germania, Publius Quinctilius Varus, and of Claudia Pulchra, granddaughter of Octavia Minor, sister of Augustus, but after Quinctillius was charged of maiestas in 27, the marriage did not occur.

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The earliest record of the name is in a Roman-era ( 3rd century ) inscription, discovered in 1784 in Wiesbaden ( at the time known as Aquae Mattiacorum in Germania Superior ), edited in Codex inscriptionum romanarum Danubii et Rheni as no.

He wrote Latin Literature of the Empire ( 2 vols., Prose and Poetry, 1898 – 1899 ), a History of Classical Philology ( 1902 ) and Sources of Plutarchs Life of Cicero ( 1902 ); and edited Tacitus Dialogus de oratoribus ( text with commentary, 1894 and 1898 ) and Agricola ( 1899 ; with Germania, 1900 ), and Sallusts Catiline ( 1903 ).

Trees from the earliest fortifications found in Germania Inferior are dated by dendrochronology to 99 / 100.

Historic Swabia was eventually replaced by today's Baden-Württemberg, but it had been the most significant territory of mediaeval Alamannia, comprising all Germania Superior and territory east to Bavaria.

However, when campaigning against Germanic tribes of Germania, Alexander attempted to bring peace by engaging in diplomacy and bribery.

The strategic position, to wit the high bank of the Waal — which offered an unimpeded view far into Germania Transrhenana ( Germania Beyond the Rhine )— was recognized first by Drusus, who built a massive fortress ( castra ) and a headquarters ( praetorium ) in imperial style.

The first Batavi commander we know of is named Chariovalda, who led a charge across the Visurgin ( Weser ) against the Cherusci led by Arminius during the campaigns of Germanicus in Germania Transrhenana.

The governor of Germania Inferior, Lappius Maximus, moved to the region at once, assisted by the procurator of Rhaetia, Titus Flavius Norbanus.

* Tacitus: Germania ( with introduction and commentary by J. B. Rives ), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

All these tribes in Germania were eventually subjugated by the Franks.

In the same year, under the Tetrarchy reforms of the emperor Diocletian, Britannia became one of the four dioceses — governed by a vicarius — of the praetorian prefecture of Galliae (' the Gauls '), comprising the provinces of Gaul, Britannia, Germania and Hispania.

The Historia Brittonum records that, during the reign of Vortigern in Britain, three vessels that had been exiled from Germania arrived in Britain, commanded by Hengist and Horsa.

The first submarine, U-1 was delivered in December 1906, built by Krupp's Germania yard in Kiel.

Tacitus, in the late 1st century mentions ( Germania I. 42 ) the Marcommani as being under kings appointed by Rome.

Njörðr is often identified with the goddess Nerthus, whose reverence by various Germanic tribes is described by Roman historian Tacitus in his 1st CE century work Germania.

But actual testing with the coaster Germania showed this to be impractical due to the ballast needed to offset the weight of the tanks and the fact that the coasters had to be grounded in order to prevent them from capsizing as the tanks were transferred by crane onto the vessel ’ s wooden side ramps.

Hitler had big plans for Berlin, to transform it into the Welthauptstadt ( World Capital ) Germania, to be realised by his architect friend Albert Speer ( 1905 – 81 ).

At the end of 68, Galba, to the general astonishment, selected him to command the army of Germania Inferior, and here Vitellius made himself popular with his subalterns and with the soldiers by outrageous prodigality and excessive good nature, which soon proved fatal to order and discipline.

For people living in medieval Northern Holy Roman Empire and its precursors, especially for the Saxons, a Wend ( Wende ) was a Slav living west of the Oder River area, an area later entitled Germania Slavica, settled by the Polabian tribes ( mentioned above ) in the north and by others, such as the Sorbs and the Milceni, in the middle.

* Germania Inferior and the Rhine are secured by Germanicus.

* Roman legions in Germania are transported by fleet to fortress of Flevum on the Rhine to operate against the rebellious Frisians.

* The Roman Empire is threatened by the Alemanni, Franks and Marcomanni in Germania, by the Goths in the Danube region ( Moesia and Thrace ) and Asia Minor, and by the Persians in the East.

In 1856, Pfeiffer founded Germania, a quarterly periodical devoted to German antiquarian research.

On Konrad see F Pfeiffer in Germania, iii ( 1867 ), and W Goither in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, vol.

pp. 85 – 87, 1894 ), and in Germania by F. Neumann ( vol.

Mrs. William Odell, Mrs. Clinton B. King, John Holabird Jr., Norman Boothby, and Actress Maureen O'Sullivan will judge the costumes in the grand march at the Affaire Old Towne Bal Masque tomorrow in the Germania club.

* 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior ( Netherlands ) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.

Augustus dramatically enlarged the Empire, annexing Egypt, Dalmatia, Pannonia, Noricum, and Raetia, expanded possessions in Africa, expanded into Germania, and completed the conquest of Hispania.

This is the earliest use of Germania.

Most of the Alemanni were probably at the time in fact resident in or close to the borders of Germania Superior.

The early detailed source, the Germania of Tacitus, has sometimes been interpreted in such a way as to provide yet other historical problems.

Tacitus stated that they traded with Rhaetia, which in Ptolemy is located across the Danube from Germania Superior.

Germania Superior is easily identified.

Moreover, the territory of Germania Superior was not originally included among the Alemanni's possessions.

On the one hand Tacitus ' Germania tells us ( Chapters 38, 39 ) that they occupy more than half of Germany, use a distinctive hair style, and are spiritually centered on the Semnones.

The scene is adapted from Germania Superior | Roman era gravestones of the region.

Germanicus was a candidate for future succession and had won fame campaigning in Germania and Gaul.

During her time in Germania, Agrippina had proved herself to be an efficient and effective diplomat.

In the provinces of the Empire, in Illyricum, in Mauritania, in Armenia, in Mesopotamia and in Germania, fresh mutinies perpetually broke out, as his officers were murdered and his authority was disregarded.

The Roman Empire made no further concerted attempts to conquer Germania beyond the Rhine.

The name of the Angles is first recorded in Latinized form, as Anglii, in the Germania of Tacitus.

Possibly the first instance of the Angles in recorded history is in Tacitus ' Germania, chapter 40, in which the " Anglii " are mentioned in passing in a list of Germanic tribes.

The account in Germania is inconsistent with Strabo's and Pliny's on a major point.

The rebellion became a real threat to the Empire when the conflict escalated to northern Gaul and Germania.