A tourist from Ancient Britain wanted to travel to Ancient Rome would have walked (if poor) or traveled by cart via Gaul (France), Rhaetia (Switzerland), and northern and central Italy. Alternatively he could have sailed there.
Modern Switzerland covers an area where in antiquity there were two separate regions. The Helvetii lived in one of these regions (most of the plateau of Switzerland. There is no record of when they were conquered. They fought to support the Gauls in the Battle of Alesia (the final defeat of the Gauls by Julius Caesar) in 52 BC. After this there was no mention of them until 68 AD. When Augustus created the Roman province of Germania in 28-23 BC the territory of the Helvetii were part of this province. The other region was Rhaetia (central and eastern Switzerland and part of southern Germany and eastern Austria. Rhaetia was conquered in 15 BC.
Modern day Austria covers an area where there were three different regions. Rhaetia (which covered eastern Austria, central and western Switzerland and part of Southern Germany) was conquered in 15 AD. Noricum (most of Austria) was subdued in 16 AD. Pannonia (eastern Austria and western Hungary) was annexed to the empire in 9 AD.
Vespasian became emperor by a military alliance. His own troops backed him and he also had the alliance of the Syrian troops. It was enough for him to overpower his other rivals and become emperor. The news of Galba marching on Rome, caused Vaspasian to temporarily suspend his crusade to end the revolt in Jerusalem.
The Romans fought the Gauls of Gallia Cisalpina (northern Italy) at the Battle of Telamon in Etruria in 225 BC because they overrun Etruria and probably wanted to march on Rome. The Romans won and begun the invasion of Gallia Cisalpina. They conquered the last remaining Gallic kingdom there in 192 BC. Julius Caesar conquered Gaul (Gallia Cisalpina) which covered France, Belgium, Holland south of the river Rhine and Germany west of the Rhine, in the Gallic Wars (58-50 BC). The Celts of the Alpine region were conquered in the 1st century AD. Pannonia was taken in 6 AD by the generals Tiberius (before he became emperor) and Germanicus. The conquest of Rhaetia in 15 AD and Noricum in 16 AD by Tiberius and Drusus. Southern England was conquered in 43 by the general Aulus Plautius and emperor Claudius who joined him bringing reinforcement. Northern England was conquered in 78 by the general Agricola who was sent by emperor Vespasian.
Rhaetia (Switzerland) was conquered in 15 BC
Rhaetia was conquered in 15 BC.
Peter Conradin von Planta has written: 'Das alte Raetien, staatlich und kultur-historisch' -- subject(s): History, Rhaetia 'Das alte Raetien' -- subject(s): Rhaeto-Romance/Romansh history and culture 'Das alte Raetien, Staatlich und kultur-historisch' -- subject(s): Rhaetia, History
A tourist from Ancient Britain wanted to travel to Ancient Rome would have walked (if poor) or traveled by cart via Gaul (France), Rhaetia (Switzerland), and northern and central Italy. Alternatively he could have sailed there.
Modern Switzerland covers an area where in antiquity there were two separate regions. The Helvetii lived in one of these regions (most of the plateau of Switzerland. There is no record of when they were conquered. They fought to support the Gauls in the Battle of Alesia (the final defeat of the Gauls by Julius Caesar) in 52 BC. After this there was no mention of them until 68 AD. When Augustus created the Roman province of Germania in 28-23 BC the territory of the Helvetii were part of this province. The other region was Rhaetia (central and eastern Switzerland and part of southern Germany and eastern Austria. Rhaetia was conquered in 15 BC.
Modern day Austria covers an area where there were three different regions. Rhaetia (which covered eastern Austria, central and western Switzerland and part of Southern Germany) was conquered in 15 AD. Noricum (most of Austria) was subdued in 16 AD. Pannonia (eastern Austria and western Hungary) was annexed to the empire in 9 AD.
The Romans annexed Pannonia (eastern Austria, western Hungary, western Slovakia northwestern Croatia, northern Serbia and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 9 AD, Rhaetia (eastern and central Switzerland, eastern Austria and part of southern Germany) in 15 BC, and Noricum (which included most of Austria and part of Slovenia) in 16 BC.
Italia, Hispania, Gaul, Britannia, Germania Superior and Inferior, Rhaetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Illyria, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, Greece, Bithynia, Pergamon, Galatia, Lydia, Phampilia. Cilicia, Cyprus, Cappadocia, Pontus, Armenia, Corduene, Osroene, Syria, Phoenicia, Palaestina, Aegyptus, Cyrenaica, Africa, Numidia, and Mauretania.
One should say regions, rather than region. Egypt was annexed in 30 BC. Illyricum was subjugated in 35-333 BC and became a Roman province in 27 BC. Moesia was subdued in 29 BC and became a province in 6 AD. The conquest of Hispania (the |Iberian Peninsula) was completed in 19 BC. Rhaetia was subjugated in 15 BC.
One should say regions, rather than region. Egypt was annexed in 30 BC. Illyricum was subjugated in 35-333 BC and became a Roman province in 27 BC. Moesia was subdued in 29 BC and became a province in 6 AD. The conquest of Hispania (the |Iberian Peninsula) was completed in 19 BC. Rhaetia was subjugated in 15 BC.
In the days of the Romans Vienna was called Vindobona and had a Roman military camp which hosted the tenth legion Gemina. The layout of the streets of the First District of Vienna show where the encampment had its walls and moats. The Romans stayed until the 5th century. The layout of early medieval Vienna followed the former Roman walls. There are remains of other Roman settlements and Roman bridges. Austria did not exist in antiquity. The kingdom of Noricum was incorporated into the Roman Empire as a client kingdom of Rome in 16 B.C. It remained a client kingdom until 43 A.D. when it was annexed by the emperor Claudius. It became the Roman province of Noricum. This kingdom included most of present day Austria and part of modern Slovenia. In the western part of present day Austria, most of the Tirol was part of Rhaetia, which also included eastern and central Switzerland , southern Bavaria, Upper Swabia and Vorarlberg in present day Germany, , and part of Lombardy in present day Italy. It is now known when Rhaetia became a client kingdom of Rome. It became part of the Roman Empire when it was subjugated in 15 B.C. by the Roman generals Tiberius and Drusus.
Vespasian became emperor by a military alliance. His own troops backed him and he also had the alliance of the Syrian troops. It was enough for him to overpower his other rivals and become emperor. The news of Galba marching on Rome, caused Vaspasian to temporarily suspend his crusade to end the revolt in Jerusalem.