id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5433 Germania Superior - Wikipedia .html text/html 3019 541 63 The province of Germania Superior within the Roman Empire, c. The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian (ruled 117-138 AD), showing, on the upper Rhine river, the imperial province of Germania Superior (Franche-Comté/Alsace-Lorraine/Baden-Württemberg), and the 2 legions deployed there in 125. Important cities were Besançon (Vesontio), Strasbourg (Argentoratum), Wiesbaden (Aquae Mattiacae), and Germania Superior's capital, Mainz (Mogontiacum). The terms, "Upper Germania" and "Lower Germania" do not appear in the Gallic Wars of Julius Caesar,[citation needed] yet he writes about reports that the people who lived in those regions were referred to as Germani locally, a term used for a tribe that the Romans called the Germani Cisrhenani, and that the name Germania seems to have been adopted to designate other indigenous tribes in the area.[2][3] Lower Germania was occupied by the Belgae. Germania Superior was reestablished as an Imperial Roman province in 90, taking large amounts of territory from Gallia Lugdunensis. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5433.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5433.txt