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
[edit] Images
 Reconstructed Limes |
 A fortification on the Limes |
 Reconstructed Watchtower |
 Hadrian's Wall |
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