{"slug": "germania", "label": "Germania", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62646", "qid": "Q62646", "description": "Roman term for a historical region in north-central Europe", "entries": 14, "years": 13, "span": [-10, 375], "span_label": ["11 BCE", "375 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "augustus", "label": "Augustus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "germanic-peoples", "label": "Germanic peoples", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alamanni", "label": "Alamanni", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "germanic-tribes", "label": "Germanic tribes", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "quadi", "label": "Quadi", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ireland", "label": "Ireland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "picts", "label": "Picts", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -10, "year_label": "11 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of the Lupia River: Roman forces under Augustus's stepson Nero Claudius Drusus win a victory in Germania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372852967#Roman_Empire", "title": "11 BC", "revid": 1372852967, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 1, "year_label": "1 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "AD 1 – Tiberius, under order of Emperor Augustus, quells revolts in Germania (AD 1–5).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365712040#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s", "revid": 1365712040, "section": "Events › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 7, "year_label": "7 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "AD 7 – Publius Quinctilius Varus is appointed governor of Germania, charged with organizing Germania between the Rhine and Elbe rivers. He carries out a census, devises tributes and recruits soldiers, all of which creates dissension among the Germanic tribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365712040#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s", "revid": 1365712040, "section": "Events › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 28, "year_label": "28 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Roman legions in Germania are transported by fleet to the fortress of Flevum on the Rhine, to operate against the rebellious Frisians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#Germania", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 28 AD › Germania"}}, {"year": 86, "year_label": "86 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Germania is divided into two provinces, Germania Inferior and Germania Superior (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371185563#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 86", "revid": 1371185563, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 86, "year_label": "86 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Roman general (and future emperor) Trajan begins a campaign to crush an uprising in Germania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371185563#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 86", "revid": 1371185563, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 180, "year_label": "180 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Quadi are chased westwards, deeper into Germania. The Praetorian prefect, Tarutenius Paternus, achieves a decisive victory against the Germanic tribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371305659#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 180", "revid": 1371305659, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 213, "year_label": "213 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Caracalla leaves Rome and expels some Germanic marauders from Gaul, while his mother, Julia Domna, rules the Empire. He defends the northern Rhine frontier against the Alamanni and the Chatti. Caracalla wins over the Germanic tribes on the banks of the River Main, and gives himself the title \"Germanicus\". It is probably while campaigning in Germania that he takes a liking to the caracalla, a Celtic or Germanic tunic from which he acquires the name by which he is known.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267077872#Roman_Empire", "title": "213", "revid": 1267077872, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 237, "year_label": "237 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Maximinus Thrax campaigns on the rivers Danube and Rhine in Germania, defeating the Alemanni, and never visits Rome. He is accepted by the Roman Senate, but taxes the rich aristocracy heavily, and engenders such hostility among them, that they plot against him. He had a road rebuilt in what is now the Golan Heights, between 236 and 237.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1310907306#Roman_Empire", "title": "237", "revid": 1310907306, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 240, "year_label": "240 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Roman Empire is threatened on several fronts at the same time. Africa revolts and tribes in northwest Germania, under the name of the Franks, are raiding the Rhine frontier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371189859#Roman_Empire", "title": "240", "revid": 1371189859, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 280, "year_label": "280 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Thuringi, a Germanic tribe, appears in the Harz Mountains (Thuringia) of central Germania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367495474#Europe", "title": "280", "revid": 1367495474, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 320, "year_label": "320 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Crispus, eldest son of Constantine I, leads a victorious campaign against the Franks, assuring twenty years of peace along the Rhine frontier. He establishes his residence in Augusta Treverorum (modern Trier), capital of Germania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330750501#Roman_Empire", "title": "320", "revid": 1330750501, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 367, "year_label": "367 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Great Conspiracy: The Roman garrison on Hadrian's Wall revolts and allows Picts from Caledonia to devastate Britain. Simultaneously Attacotti, the Scotti from Hibernia (Ireland), and the Saxons from Germania invade the island's mid-western and south-eastern borders. They sack the cities and murder, rape or enslave Romano-British civilians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326556842#Roman_Empire", "title": "367", "revid": 1326556842, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 375, "year_label": "375 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – Emperor Valentinian I concludes an enduring peace with the Alamanni in Germany, then marches into Illyricum to repel an invasion of the Quadi and the Sarmatians on the Danube frontier. While negotiating with the Quadi, Valentinian, age 54, becomes so enraged that he dies in a fit of apoplexy at Brigetio (Hungary). Extreme cruelty has marked his 11-year reign, but he has also founded schools and provided physicians to serve the poor of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205031#Roman_Empire", "title": "375", "revid": 1349205031, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}