Terra X: Limes - Grenzwall gegen die Barbaren

After the loss of governor Varrus's legions decided August to abandon the conquest of greater Germania, the empire fortifies its border in the form of the limes, a long chain of cavalry garrison forts, guard towers and fortified trade gates, mostly following Rhine and Danube. Its British counterpart, Hadrian's Wall, had a short-lived northern-more version, Antonin's Wall. Modern research sees it less as a military rampart to defend as such then a symbol of imperial power and basis for regular patrols and sorties, on horseback or by surprisingly fast row and sail boat. Still it couldn't stop the major Germanic migrations. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)