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The Germania prima (also: Germania I ) was a Roman province of the late antique Administrative Order (see. Notitia Dignitatum ) that existed from the year 297 until the collapse of Roman rule on the Rhine at the end of the 5th century. It was separated from the province of Germania superior ("Upper Germania"), which was formed in 89 from what was originally a purely military border area of Gaul on the Middle and Upper Rhine .

In the course of Diocletian's administrative and military reforms , the province of Germania superior was also divided up in 297 . The part located south of Strasbourg was combined to form the new province of Sequania (later: Maxima Sequanorum ) with the new provincial capital Besançon . The areas north of Strasbourg on the Rhine formed the Germania prima , while retaining the previous provincial capital Mogontiacum .

The Germania prima was now, like the new neighboring provinces, part of the next higher administrative unit Dioecesis Galliae , which in turn belonged to the prefecture of Gaul and Britain. The civil governor ( praeses ) was subordinate to the vicarius of the diocese and his next superior, the Gallic prefect, the praefectus praetorio Galliarum , based in Trier . The commanders of the troops stationed in Germania I were the Dux Germaniae primae , then the Dux Mogontiacensis , who had their headquarters in Mainz, and the Comes tractus Argentoratensis , who resided in Argentorate . In the later 5th century the commanders of the Frankish foederati apparently took their place; Clovis I is still referred to as administrator of Germania prima around 482 .

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