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Yes Romans and Greeks brought their Mediterranean ingenuity and civilization to Europe. However modern Europe as we know it, began under the great Germanic king Charlemagne. Roman began in the Mediterranean world also included parts of the Middle-East, Asia Minor, Northern Africa. Actually Celts and Germanics were not held in high esteem but considered «stupid» by Romans and Greeks.I think that your historical knowledge is very superficial..The Roman Empire remains the paragon of imperial power and authority – that’s why so many states kept insisting that they are their heirs or making connections to them, including the Germanic Charles the Great and many Germans KAISER to follow ( Nazi included ) . In a way, these countries preferred to prove a connection to their Southern heritage than to their Northern roots, to the point that they even attempted to fabricate connections to it, such as the Holy Roman Empire. Others went so far as to reject the beginnings of northern European history (or at least, the history of western/northern/central European states) as a "middle-age".
90 percent of what we see now in Europe was born and developed from the Roman Empire and Italian Renaissance..
Trier in Germany was for a while the capital of the Roman Empire..
Constantine the great was elected Emperor in York North England...
List of Roman towns in England
◦Aquae Sulis => Bath
◦Bannaventa => Norton (village), Northamptonshire
◦Calleva Atrebatum => Silchester (village), Hampshire
◦Camulodunum (or Colonia Claudia Victricensis) => Colchester*
◦Causennae => Ancaster (village), Lincolnshire
◦Corinium => Cirencester
◦Corstopitum (or Coria) => Corbridge
◦Deva (or Deva Victrix) => Chester
◦Dubris => Dover
◦Durnovaria => Dorchester
◦Durobrivae => Water Newton (village), Cambridgeshire
◦Durolipons => Cambridge
◦Durovernon => Canterbury
◦Eboracum => York
◦Glevum => Gloucester
◦Isca Dumnoniorum => Exeter
◦Isurium Brigantum => Aldborough (village), North Yorkshire
◦Lactodorum => Towcester (village), Northamptonshire
◦Letocetum => Wall (village), Staffordshire
◦Lindum => Lincoln
◦Lindinis => Ilchester (village), Somerset
◦Londinium => London
◦Manduessedum => Mancetter (village), Warwickshire
◦Mediolanum => Whitchurch (village), Shropshire
◦Noviomagus Reginorum => Chichester
◦Ratae Coritanorum => Leicester
◦Tripontium => Newton and Biggin (village), Warwickshire
◦Venta Belgarum => Winchester
◦Venta Icenorum => Caistor St Edmund (village), Norfolk
◦Verulamium => near St Albans
◦Viroconium Cornoviorum => Wroxeter (village), Shropshire
List of Roman towns in Germany
◦Aquae Mattiacae => Wiesbaden
◦Aquisgranium => Aachen
◦Augusta Treverorum => Trier
◦Augusta Vindelicorum => Augsburg
◦Aurelia Aquensi => Baden Baden
◦Bonna => Bonn
◦Castellum apud Confluentes => Koblenz
◦Castra Batavorum => Passau
◦Castra Vetera => Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia
◦Colonia Ulpia Traiana => Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia
◦Drusus => Bingen-am-Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate
◦Mattium => Marburg, Hesse
◦Moguntiacum => Mainz
◦Novaesium => Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia
◦Noviomagus => Neumagen-Dhron (village), Rhineland-Palatinate
◦Oppidum Ubiorum (then Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium) => Cologne/Köln
◦Radasbona (then Castra Regina) => Regensburg
◦Rigomagus => Remagen, Rhineland-Palatinate
◦Sorviodurum => Straubing, Bavaria
◦Tolbiacum => Zuelpich, North Rhine-Westphalia
◦Tricensimae => Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia
◦Vadum Francorum = Frankfurt
List of Roman towns in France
◦Aginnum => Agen, Lot-et-Garonne
◦Aquae Sextiae => Aix-en-Provence
◦Alalia => Aleria, Corse
◦Arausio => Orange
◦Arelate (previously Theline) => Arles
◦Argentoratum (then Stratoeburgus) => Strasbourg
◦Augusta Suessionum => Soissons, Picardie
◦Augusta Viromanduorum => Saint-Quentin, Picardie
◦Augustodunum (formerly Bibracte) => Autun, Bourgogne
◦Augustodurum => Bayeux, Normandie
◦Augustomagus => Senlis, Picardie
◦Augustonemetum (previously Nemossos) => Clermont-Ferrand
◦Augustoritum => Limoges
◦Autricum => Chartres
◦Avaricum => Bourges, Cher
◦Avenio => Avignon
◦Bagacum => Bavay (village), Nord
◦Besontio => Besançon, Franche-Comté
◦Burdigala => Bordeaux
◦Caesarodunum => Tours
◦Caesaromagus => Beauvais, Picardie
◦Camaracum => Cambrai, Nord
◦Caranusca => Hackenberg (village), Lorraine
◦Carcaso => Carcassonne
◦Cenabum (then Aurelianis) => Orléans
◦Colonia Forum Segusiavorum => Feurs, Loire
◦Colonia Nemausa => Nîmes
◦Condate Riedonum => Rennes
◦Condatomagus => La Graufesenque, Aveyron
◦Darioritum => Vannes, Bretagne
◦Decem Pagi => Tarquimpol (village), Lorraine
◦Divio => Dijon
◦Divodurum => Metz
◦Duacum => Douai
◦Durocortorum Remorum => Reims
◦Gesoriacum (or Portus Itius) => Boulogne-sur-Mer
◦Juliomagus => Angers
◦Lemonum (or Limonum) => Poitiers
◦Lucus Augusti => Luc-en-Diois, Drôme
◦Lusonum => Lezoux, Puy-de-Dôme
◦Lutetia => Paris
◦Massilia (previously Massalia) => Marseille
◦Mediolanum Aulercorum => Evreux
◦Mediolanum Santonum => Saintes, Charente-Maritime
◦Narbo Martius => Narbonne
◦Nemetacum Atrebatum => Arras
◦Nicaea (previously Nikaia) => Nice
◦Noviodunum => Soissons
◦Pons Saravi => Sarrebourg (village), Lorraine
◦Portus Namnetus => Nantes
◦Reginca => Saint-Servan (village), Bretagne
◦Ricciacum => Ritzing (village), Lorraine
◦Rotomagus => Rouen
◦Samarobriva => Amiens
◦Tolosa => Toulouse
◦Tullum Leucorum => Toul, Lorraine
◦Tres Tabernae => Saverne (village), Alsace
◦Valentia => Valence
◦Valentianae => Valenciennes
◦Vasio Vocontiorum => Vaison-la-Romaine
◦Verodunum => Verdun
◦Vesuna => Périgueux, Dordogne
◦Vindinium => Le Mans
◦Vorgium => Carhaix (village), Bretagne
In Switzerland
◦Arbor Felix => Arbon, Thurgau
◦Aventicum => Avenches (village), Vaud
◦Augusta Raurica => Kaiseraugst (village), Aargau
◦Basilea => Basel
◦Curia => Chur, Graubünden
◦Genava => Genčve/Geneva
◦Lousanna => Lausanne
◦Octodurum => Martigny, Valais
◦Salodurum => Solothurn
◦Tenedo => Bad Zurzach (village), Aargau
◦Turicum => Zürich
◦Vindonissa => Windisch (village), Aargau
In Austria
◦Aelium Cetium (then Treisma) => Sankt Pölten
◦Brigantium (formerly Brigantion) => Bregenz
◦Carnuntum => Deutsch-Altenburg - Petronell
◦Iuenna => Jaunstein
◦Juvavum (or Salisburgium or Iuvavia) => Salzburg
◦Lentie (formerly Lentos) => Linz
◦Noreia => Neumarkt in der Steiermark
◦Oenipons => Innsbruck
◦Ovilava => Wels
◦Veldidena => Wilten
◦Vindobona => Vienna/Wien
◦Virunum => Maria Saal
In Holland ( its ground surface was only 30% of the current ground surface )
◦Albaniana => Alphen aan den Rijn
◦Coriovallum => Heerlen
◦Lugdunum Batavorum => Katwijk (Leiden)
◦Mosa Trajectum (or Trajectum ad Mosam) => Maastricht*
◦Oppidum Batavorum (or Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum) => Nijmegen*
◦Trajectum ad Rhenum => Utrecht
I don't add the list of Others Country
Forget the Vikings.. their contribution to Europe led to nothing as their discovery of North-america ..
US Senate Ancient Rome symbols
Eagle... Ancient Roman fasces lictoriae ("bundles of the lictors") symbolised..
George Washington original statue ( Canova Veneto Italy ) The US Senate and Thomas Jefferson specifically requested to represent George as a Roman emperor.... not a Viking...
Many Others US president were deeply Romanophili..
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