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Trier

Trier, formerly Avgvsta Treverorvm (or Augusta Treuerorum), and called Trèves in French, is situated along the Mosel River in Rheinland-Pfalz1, Deutschland2 and has just over 100 thousand residents3. The tallest building is the 14-story N.H. Trier,4 a hotel. Among the Roman remains are the the two much reconstructed basilicas of Constantine (one now a Protestant Church, the other the city's Cathedral), the ruins of the baths (thermae), the ampitheatre, the Circus maximus, the Aula Palatina, the Porta Nigra (a former city gate) and a still-in-use bridge across the Mosel5. Among the other famous buildings are the house in which Karl Marx grew up and the Gothic Liebfrauenkirche.

YearPopulation6Political entity
36160,000Senatvs Pvblvsque Romanvs (Roman Empire)
100020,000Regnum Francorum (Holy Roman Empire)
120025,000Imperium Romanum Sacrum (Holy Roman Empire, although Trier was close to independent)
130015,000Kurfürstentum7 (Electorate of) Trier (nominally part of the Imperium Romanum Sacrum or Holy Roman Empire)
190043,000Deutsches Reich (German Empire)

External references

Porta Nigra (Roman gate)

Historical maps

map showing part of Senatvs Pvblvsque Romanvs, 361 CE

map showing part of Francia of the Ripuari, 500 CE

map showing part of Francia, 622 and 800 CE

map showing part of Lothari Regnum, 900 CE

map showing part of Regnum Francorum, 1000 CE

map showing part of Regnum Teutonicum, 1100 CE

map showing part of Imperium Romanum Sacrum, 1200 CE

map showing part of Kurfürstentum Trier, 1300 and 1400 CE

map showing part of Kurfürstentum Trier, 1500 CE

map showing part of Kurfürstentum Trier, 1600 and 1700 CE

map showing part of the République française, 1800 CE

map showing part of the Deutsches Reich, 1900 CE

map of Deutschland, the Benelux countries and Danmark (part), 2000 CE

Footnotes

1. Rhineland Palitanate in English.
2. Germany in English.
3. Estimate in world-gazetteer.com, accessed 11/23/2010.
4. Emporis.com, accessed 11/23/2010.
5. The city's past is recognized as a World Heritage Site: Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady.
6. Estimates in Tables of the World's Largest Cities, or in Continental Tables and Maps: Europe, both in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). In 361 Trier (Avgvsta Trevervm) was the largest city in what is now Deutschland, België, Nederland, Luxembourg and Danmark.
7. The Archbishop of Trier was also subordinate to the Pope in Roma, but in practice his feudal role was independent of papal direction.