Civitas Vangionum
The Civitas Vangionum was a Roman civitas , a semi-autonomous administrative unit at the middle level. It was located on the Roman Rheintalstrasse in what is now southern Rheinhessen in Rhineland-Palatinate and was populated by the Vangionen tribe. The main town of the administrative district was Borbetomagus , a settlement with a Celtic name, from which the city of Worms later developed.
Traces of settlement near the confluence of the Pfrimm and Eisbach into the Rhine can be traced back to the younger Stone Age (5000 BC). The large latène period burial ground in the north of the city shows continuous settlement that apparently demolished in the last century BC. The reason for this was probably that the Romans relocated the Vangions. They incorporated their new settlement area into the Roman administrative system under the name Civitas Vangionum , which can be translated as “main town” or “tribal area of the Vangions”.
In the course of the following centuries the name was changed and is now preserved in the name of the region surrounding Worms, the Wonnegau .
literature
- Helmut Bernhard : The Roman history in Rhineland-Palatinate. In: Heinz Cüppers : The Romans in Rhineland-Palatinate. License issue. Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-60-0 , p. 108.