Germania secunda
The Germania secunda (also: Germania II ) was a Roman province in the late antiquity . It went back to the province of Germania inferior ("Niedergermanien"), which emerged in the late 1st century AD from a border area of Gaul on the Lower Rhine that was previously under military administration and was separated from the province of Gallia Belgica by the mouth of the Scheldt .
The Germania secunda was described in the Roman state manual Notitia dignitatum in the early fourth century as being located in the area of the lower Rhine and administered by a governor called consularis . The governor's administrative seat was the Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium ( Cologne ).
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literature
- Karen Waugh: Germans beyond the Limes. A reassesment of the archaeological evidence in the Limes foreland of Southern Germania Inferior / Secunda. The British Library Document Supply Center, Boston Spa 1998.
- Jochen Haas: The environmental crisis of the 3rd century AD in the northwest of the Roman Empire. Interdisciplinary studies on one aspect of the general imperial crisis in the area of the two Germaniae as well as the Belgica and the Raetia. Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08880-6 .