Germania secunda

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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 .