Germania Superior
Roman province (83 - 475)
Facts
21 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- Roman province
- Inception
- 83
- Native label
- Germania superior
Location
- Country
- Ancient Rome (83–260), Gallic Empire (260–274), Ancient Rome (274–297)[3][4][5]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 49.150°, 7.690°
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Diocese of Gaul[2]
- Shares border with
- Upper German-Raetian Limes[9]
More facts +13
- Followed by
- Germania prima, Maxima Sequanorum[12][13]
- Located in
- Diocese of Gaul
- Part of
- Roman Gaul, Roman Empire[14][15]
- Facet of
- history of Alsace
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 49.150°, 7.690°
- Dissolved
- 297
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished
- 297
- Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Grand Est, European Collectivity of Alsace, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Switzerland
- Position held by head of the organization
- legatus Augusti pro praetore Germaniae superioris
🏷️ Also known as
en Upper Germania
en Germania Superior
ar جرمانيا الكبرى
cs Germania Superior
cs Horní Germánie
de Obergermanien
el Άνω Γερμανία
fa ژرمانیای بزرگ
fr Germania Superior
fr Germanie supérieure
fr Haute Germanie
fr Haute-Germanie
he גרמניה עילית
it Germania prima
it Germania Superior
it Germania superiore
ja ゲルマニア・スペリオル
ja 上ゲルマニア
ja 上部ゲルマニア
ja 高地ゲルマニア
🔖 Identifiers · 18
- GND ID
- 4104622-5
- Arachne entity ID
- 2635022
- Early Modern Letters Online location ID
- fce740ec-2fcc-43bc-b877-545dc9aa1ae7
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Germania-Superior
- Freebase ID
- /m/028hlh
- GeoNames ID
- 8378507
- Golden ID (archived)
- Germania_Superior-VVY6G
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- germania-superior
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0029757
- HDS ID
- 008417
- IDAI.gazetteer ID
- 2123700
- IdRef ID
- 027769453
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- National Library of Poland MMS ID
- 9814035669205606
- Nomisma ID
- upper_germany
- PACTOLS thesaurus ID
- pcrt1zOKM6iKrg
- Topic's main category
- Category:Germania Superior
- Trismegistos Geo ID
- 16528
📚 Sources · 1
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- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
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🔗 Connections
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 6
Followed by (predecessor) 3
← Operating area 3
Country 2
Followed by 2
Follows 2
Part of 2
Contained subdivisions 1
Continent 1
Facet of 1
Instance of 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Preceded by (successor) 1
Shares border with 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category combines topics 1
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← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
← Shares border with 1
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Summary
Germania Superior is a Roman province[1].
Body
Geography
Country listings include Ancient Rome[3], a historical country[21], founded in -0753[22] and Gallic Empire[4], a historical country[23], founded in 0260[24]. Part of include Roman Gaul[14], a historical period[25], in Ancient Rome[26], founded in -0052[27] and Roman Empire[15], an empire[28].
History and Context
83 marks the founding of Germania Superior[29].