The Limes

The Limes

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Almost 2,000 years ago, heavily fortified border posts stretched across all of Europe - the Limes. Warships secured the river borders formed by the Rhine and the Danube, the "water Limes." Palisades, walls and trenches, four-meter high walls and "castells" of the Limes on land stretched across Germania, the wild "Barbaricum".
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  1. S1 E1 – Fortification against the Barbarians

    4. april 2009
    43min
    7+
    Warships secured the river borders formed by the Rhine and the Danube. The palisades, walls, trenches and forts of the Limes on land stretched across Germania, the wild "Barbaricum." The Limes was a bulwark that ran from northern Britain all the way to the Black Sea.
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  2. S1 E2 – Danger on the Roman Frontier

    11. april 2009
    43min
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    Was the Limes Rome's "iron curtain", its bulwark against the barbarians? Along the Limes military camps evolved into flourishing villages, protected by an impressive boundary and the Roman legions. But how endangered were these cities? How did the Limes hold against the attacks from tribes from the north? What happened when the empire showed signs of weakness?
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