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Forts of the Germanic frontiers

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*Vicus Aurelianus

Vicus Aurelianus ("Golden Village") was the Roman civilian settlement at modern Öhringen, Baden-Württemberg, beside two forts on the Limes frontier, first excavated in the 18th century by Christian Ernst Hanßelmann.

Carvium

Carvium: Roman castellum at the Rhine-Waal bifurcation near Herwen, Netherlands, guarding Drusus' dam (c. 12 BC); identified via the 1938 Marcus Mallius tombstone reading Carvio ad molem; UNESCO Lower Germanic Limes site.

Goch-Asperden

Goch-Asperden, a late Roman burgus and glass workshop on the Niers river near Goch, Germany (51.705N, 6.049E): wooden fort around 340/350, stone rebuild under Valentinian I, abandoned about 420/430, with two successive glass furnaces producing Helle bowls.

Lahnau-Dorlar

Lahnau-Dorlar is the site of an early Roman military camp in Dorlar, part of Lahnau in central Hesse, Germany, occupied under Augustus between 11 BC and 15 AD.

Losodica

Losodica is a Roman station named on the Tabula Peutingeriana in Raetia on the Danube road, identified with Munningen south of Oettingen, Bavaria; seven miles from Septemiaci, eleven from Medianis, Barrington Atlas 12 D4.

Oberscheidental

Oberscheidental is a Roman auxiliary cohort fort located on the older Odenwald line of the Neckar-Odenwald Limes in Germany. It was constructed around 100 AD.

Praetorium Agrippinae

Praetorium Agrippinae, a Roman castellum and supply base on the Lower Rhine at Valkenburg ZH, Netherlands, founded winter 39/40 by Caligula, named for his mother Agrippina, destroyed in the Batavian revolt, abandoned c.270, refortified to c.400.

Rückingen

Rückingen, in Erlensee, Hesse, Germany, site of a Roman cohort fort (Kastell Rückingen) on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, built AD 110–125 for Cohors III Dalmatarum; UNESCO World Heritage component with preserved bathhouse walls.

Saalburg Roman Fort

Saalburg Roman Fort (Römerkastell Saalburg): reconstructed Roman cohort fort on the Upper German-Raetian Limes near Bad Homburg, Germany; garrisoned by Cohors II Raetorum c. 135–260 AD, rebuilt 1897–1907 under Kaiser Wilhelm II, UNESCO World Heritage since 2005.