Veni Vidi Vici

My journey through history

Cologne – Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium

Before the Roman General Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63 BC-12 AD) (son-in-law and lieutenant of Augustus, playing a key role in the naval Battle of Actium in 31 BC against Mark Anthony and Cleopatra VII and the original builder of the Pantheon) resettled the Germanic tribe of the Ubii in 38 BC, the region was

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Trier – Another Rome

Table of Contents   We love Germany and I spent quite some time there during my studies, but for some strange reasons only recently we decided to visit Trier, which is a couple of hours away from where we live.   The city was a such a wonderful surprise to us

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Tongeren and the Gallo-Romeins Museum

The name Atuatuca or Aduatuca as it’s sometimes mentioned, is translated from Celtic as “the place of the prophet” (Lauran Toorians, “Aduatuca, ‘place of the prophet’. The names of the Eburones as representatives of a Celtic language, with an excursus on Tungri”, in ATVATVCA / Publications of the Gallo-Roman Museum

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