!!!Limes

Limes, original name for a border line between 2 pieces of land, later 
the border of the Roman Empire which was protected by different 
fortifications. From the 2%%sup nd/%  half of the 1%%sup st/%  century 
A.D. there is evidence of several camps for cavalry and infantry units 
of 500 or 1,000 men along the Austrian stretch of the Danube. Legion 
camps for 6,000 foot-soldiers each existed in  Carnuntum,  Vindobona 
(Vienna) and  Lauriacum (Enns), and from an even earlier period,  
Albing. Around 300 A. D. border defence was reorganised (reduction of 
forces, modernisation of camps, new formation of the 1%%sup st/% 
 Nordic Legion, legio I Noricorum), the last work on the 
Limes was done in the late 4%%sup th/%  century ( Notitia Dignitatum). 
Later the organisation of the Limes slowly disintegrated due to a lack 
of supplies and troops. At the time of St.  Severinus the civilian 
population lived in the camps; although soldiers were still mentioned 
in records of the time, the border defence had ceased to exist.

!Literature
M. Kandler and H. Vetters, Der roemische Limes in 
Oesterreich, 1986; K. Genser, Der oesterreichische Donau-Limes in der 
Roemerzeit, 1986; idem, Der Donau-Limes in Oesterreich, 1990.


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