Limes

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Limes (Plural form: Limites) is the name of a fortification 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. Therefore it was used by roman writers to describe paths, walls, boundary stones, rivers marking a boundary, et cetera.

[edit] Some limites

The most notable examples of Roman limites are:

  • Hadrian's Wall - Limes Britannicus
  • Antonine Wall
  • Upper Germanic & Rhaetian Limes, part of the Limes Germanicus
  • Limes Arabicus, the frontier of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea facing the desert
  • Limes Tripolitanus, the frontier in modern Libya facing the Sahara

A medieval limes is the Limes Saxoniae in Holstein

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