id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6932 Borders of the Roman Empire - Wikipedia .html text/html 2005 390 57 Find sources: "Borders of the Roman Empire" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The borders of the Roman Empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were realised as a combination of military roads and linked forts, natural frontiers (most notably the Rhine and Danube rivers) and man-made fortifications which separated the lands of the empire from the countries beyond. Main article: Limes (Roman Empire) However Romans controlled the Nile many kilometres into Africa up to Syena, Berenice, Hyerasykaminos and even Qasr Ibrim, (the southernmost of all), near the modern border between Egypt and Sudan, then Meroe, lying very near the tropic.[citation needed] The period in which each aforementioned town represented the final frontier of Rome is uncertain. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6932.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6932.txt