Hello ladies and gentlemen, how are you
all doing today. In this video of mine I
will be kicking off my brand new series
called "Germany's History". So I will go
over the general history of Germany.
However I will not literally go over
every part of Germany, for instance I
won't go over the Germanic tribes
migration into these settlements and all
that. However I will in this video go
over the part of German history that has
something to do with the Roman
occupation. So this video is called Rome
and Germania. Now let's go to another
site let me scroll up. Alright this
website is called MyGermancity.com and
this article is called Germania-The
Roman Side of Germany. So I will get
started with reading this article but
just a little disclaimer, I won't go over
the whole article because I may end up
getting a copyright strike; so I'll leave
this website and this article in the
description section if you want to check
out the whole thing. Alright let's get
started with this article have you ever
wondered why Germany is called Germany
(in English while other countries have
some variations of the word), while we
Germans ourselves call it
Deutschland? I think perhaps we have to
go back to the Romans who called the
area Germania just Germania
but Germania magna (an area to the
east of the Rhine) and Lesser
Germania (to the south) Each had another
area, known as Germania
inferior (Lower Germania. not
because it wasn't a nice place) and Germania
Superior (Upper Germania.)
Now perhaps the reason why the names
Germania Inferior and Germania
Superior were given because it has
something to do with the Roman
perception of the Germanic tribes.
For instance, the romans
perceived the Germanic tribes as
barbaric, unsophisticated... basically not
strong enough or smart enough for
that matter to take on and defeat the
Roman army. Anyways I digress.
It is believed that none other
than the most famous Roman of all time,
Julius Caesar, gave rise to the name back
in 51 BC. I hope you're not thinking so
what's the big deal it is a very big
deal. Now I'm going to scroll down
this article and read some other parts
like starting on this
article, I mean those paragraphs sorry.
Rome's Germania extended through
most of modern-day Germany. Upper Germania
(again, Germania Superior)
included a border of along the River
Rhine along the town of Rhinebrohl, to
the River Main, the Taunus Mountains,
to Lorch; whereas Germania inferior
went all the way to the North Sea
stretching to the present-day
Netherlands. That's a lot of real estate.
The Romans fiercely guarded their little
slice of heaven
(that would be Germany in my eyes) when,
constructing more than 900 watchtowers
and 60 forts along what's called the limes
Germanicus. it has something to do with the Romans
fighting against the roaring factions of
the Germanic tribes in 9 AD. Augustus
decided his Germania needed a defense
wall after they lost in the Battle of
the Teutoburg Forest. Speaking of the
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, if you
want to check it out, you can simply
click this link. It'll take you straight
to the article that talks about this
particular battle. Now allow me to go
further. How is it that the Roman army,
that was supposedly superior to the
Germanic tribes, loose the battle. And how
did the Germanic tribes overcome the
Roman army in the Battle of
Teutoburg Forest? How did that come into
being? Well let's go back to
Wikipedia and we'll take a look at this
paragraph and along this paragraph
we'll get to the Battle of Teutoberg
Forest and how it is that the Roman army
was defeated. So we'll get into that
right now. In the first years of the
first century AD Roman legions conducted
a long campaign in Germania the area
north of the upper Danube and east of
the Rhine, in an attempt to expand the
Empire's frontier and to shorten its
frontier line. Rome subdued several
Germanic tribes such as the Cherusci. The
tribes became familiar with Roman
tactics of warfare while maintaining
their tribal identity. In 9 AD a
Cherusci chieftain known to the Romans as
Arminius defeated a Roman army in the
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, a
victory credited with stopping the Roman
advance into Germanic territories and
marking the beginning of recorded German
history. So there you go
that's how the Roman army was defeated
because of this man named
Arminius. Anyways I'm moving on. That part
of the territory of modern Germany that
lay east of the Rhine remained outside
the Roman Empire. By AD 100, the time of
Tacticus's Germania, Gemanic
settled along the Roman frontier along
the Rhine and the Danube (the Lima
Germanicus) occupying most of the area of
modern Germany; however, imperial Rome
organized territory later included in
the modern states of Austria, Baden
Württemberg, southern Bavaria, southern
Hesse, Saarland and the Rhineland as Roman
provinces. The Roman provinces in western
Germany, Germania Inferior (with the
capital situated at Colonia
Claudia ara Agrippinensium, if I
pronounced it correctly,
modern Cologne) and Germania Superior
(with its capital at Mogontiacum
modern Mainz), were formally established
in 85 AD, after a long period of military
occupation beginning in the reign of the
Roman Emperor Augustus from 27 BC to 14
AD. Okay let's look into this map here
of modern-day Germany we'll have a close
look up. Now here's how it is. This is the
River Rhine, the blue lines. So the Romans
as far as they are concerned, occupied
this side of the Rhine; so like southern
Bavaria, most of
baden, southern Hesse, Cologne, Rhineland
and so on. Whereas the Germanic tribes
occupied the rest of Germania on this
side. In the context of the history of
Roman Germania, the Roman army attempted
to gain further ground on the eastern
side of the Rhine River, but due to their
defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg
forest, they were not successful in
gaining a foothold. So that's how it went.
Well that's all I have for today folks.
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Other than that I will be signing off.
But before I do I will make more videos
about German history. There will be more
of those videos to come. So please make
sure to stay tuned for that. But other
than that thank you for watching and
have a nice evening day or morning
wherever you are.
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