Frontiers of the Roman Empire facts for kids
Frontiers of the Roman Empire is a World Heritage Site. The site includes three walls in different parts of Europe. They were part of the frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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Limes
Limes (plural: 'Limites') is the Latin name of walls at the border of the Roman empire. There were many such fortifications.
The Latin word has a number of meanings, but the most common one is border.
The term limes was used by Roman writers to describe paths, walls, boundary stones, rivers marking a boundary, but its meaning was not the same as the modern boundary.
Some notable examples of Roman limites are:
- Limes Arabicus — the frontier of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea facing the desert
- Limites Britannicus — Hadrian's Wall; Antonine Wall
- Limes Germanicus — Upper Germanic & Rhaetian Limes
- Limes Saxoniae — a medieval limes in Holstein
- Limes Tripolitanus — the frontier in modern Libya facing the Sahara
Gallery
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Reconstructed Limes
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A fortification on the Limes
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Reconstructed wooden watchtower
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Hadrian's Wall
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Images for kids
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Map of fortifications and castles in North Britain around 155 AD (most forts on and south of Hadrian's Wall have been omitted).
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Map of British and Gallic forts on the Saxon Shore
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Map of the legion camps and forts in Germania Inferior
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Map of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes
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Location of the Roman camps on the Rhine-Lake Constance line and in the hinterland provinces of Maxima Sequanorum and Raetia I, 3rd century AD
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Map of the Norican Limes
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Map of the Pannonian Limes with its perimeter defences
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Limes Africanus under Septimius Severus (The frontier of Roman Africa (dark tan) in the late 2nd century AD: Septimius Severus expanded the Limes Tripolitanus dramatically (medium tan), even briefly holding a military presence (light tan) in the Garamantian capital Garama in 203)
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Black lines indicating the approximate path of the 4 sections of the Fossatum Africae
See also
In Spanish: Limes para niños
