The Roman Empire

made by : Lilliya Angelova, VIII b class

Rome Empire 1 B.C. – 5- 6 A.D. – title slide

Context The Roman Empire and the Celts

The Roman Empire and the Thracians The Roman Empire and the German

tribes What do we have in common

Novae - legionary headquarters

The Celts were a group

of tribes inhabiting

Central Europe in

800-450 B.C.

light green * - maximal Celtic expansion, by 275 BC

Thracians inhabited parts of the ancient provinces:

Thrace, Moesia, Macedonia, Sarmatia,

Bithynia, Pannonia, and other regions on the

Balkans and Anatolia.

A map of ancient Thrace

*

By the 5th century BC, the most powerful

Thracian kingdom was the Odrysian kingdom

of Thrace. The Thracian kingdom

was at one time overrun by the Celts,

but usually maintained its own kings. Thrace

was annexed as a Roman province in 46

A.D.

The Thracian Tomb of Kazanluk – Bulgaria *

Over the next few centuries, the province

was periodically and increasingly attacked

by migrating Germanic tribes.

The Roman province of Thrace *

In the 2nd century BC, Germanic

tribes move south and east from Scandinavia.

By the 3rd century AD various German tribes had settled along the natural

borders of the Roman empire -

Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Franks.

Ruins of a Gothic basilica from Late Antiquity in

Northeastern Bulgaria *

The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian (ruled 117-38 A.D.),

showing, on the lower Danube

river, the imperial provinces of

Moesia Superior (Serbia) and

Moesia Inferior (North

Bulgaria/coastal Romania).

The Boii (a Celtic tribe) possibly gave their name to Bavaria, and Celtic artefacts and cemeteries have been discovered further east in what is now Poland and Slovakia.

The site of Novae is situated on the southern bank of the Danube, in Bulgaria, near Svishtov. The

camp appeared in 45 AD and initially

provided accommodation to the 8th legion of

Augustus.