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During the period of the Romans rule system of fortifications (Limes) and roads was built along the Danube, cities were built rapidly (Vindobona (Vienna) in Pannonia, and Juvavum (Salzburg) in Noricum Bregenz in Rhaetia). Local population gradually romanized, the inhabitants of the inner parts of the empire moved to the cities. However, beginning with 167 on the territory of Noricum the Marcomannic Wars began. In the IV century the Germans began raiding the northern bank of the Danube (the Visigoths (401, 408), the Ostrogoths (406), later, Rugii).
The first important contact of the Swiss Helvetians with Romans occurred in 107 BC, when the Tigurins tribe joined the Cimbri and the Teutons, and made a foray into southern Gaul where inflicted a heavy defeat to the Romans on the Garonne banks. In 58 Helvetians made a resettlement campaign in Gaul. Caesar prevented them from crossing the Rhone, and then inflicted them a severe defeat near the city Bibracte (Autun) and forced to return to Helvetia. Fearing the Germans more than Helvetians, the Romans acknowledged their allies (foederati) and retained their independence.
In 52 Helvetians joined the Gallic revolt against Rome, but were suppressed. Since the romanization of Switzerland started; it moved forward slowly and gradually, but firmly and steadily over several centuries. Caesar began and Augustus in 15 BC completed the conquest of the current Valais. Western Switzerland was first attached to the province of Gallia Transalpina, and later became the special province of Maxima Sequanorum or Helvetia; only Ticino and Valais were part of the Cisalpine Gaul. Within these provinces each tribe makes an especially community (civitas), which had a considerable autonomy. Residents of these civitates paid taxes to Rome; the provinces had been separated from each other by customs borders. The Romans covered the country with a network of excellent roads and water pipes, galvanized her trade in the cities when they have developed, adorned with temples and monuments, the country had highly developed culture and Latin language and Roman religion also became widely spread.
While a lot of Germanic tribes continued contact with the Roman Empire, Scandinavia was unattainable for the Romans. Excepting some short references to the Swedes (Suiones) and the Geats (Gautoi), the major part of Scandinavia remained unnoticed by Roman authors. In Scandinavia trade was on a high level and there was a great import of goods with distinct Roman features (coins, weapons, etc.), some elements appeared thanks to the Germanic tribes in the 3rd and 4th century. One of the most famous is the trading expeditions to the Baltic, for Amber to Emperor Neros palace after the burning of Rome in 64. The finds in Denmark are very interesting: for example, the great gravefinds from Himlingoje on Southern Zealand, and Gudme on Funen.
In Central Europe the borders of the Roman Empire located on the banks of the Danube. Areas to the south of the Danube to its north-south stream became the Roman provinces (Raetia and Noricum, and Pannonia (both Superior and Inferior). Romans undermined the power of the Dacians, and sometimes promoted its border to the north of the Danube. To the south of the Danube blossomed a new life, which influenced the southern Moravia and Slovakia, because both these countries became close neighbors of the Roman Empire.
Roman domination based on a system of military fortresses and cities with the legionaries garrisoned in the Danube, Vindobona (Vienna), Carnuntum on modern Austrian territory against the Slovak Devin, in Brigetia on Hungarian territory against Komarno and especially in Aquincum in modern Budapest area. For some time especially in the 2th century Roman authority and strengthened in Mushov in Mikulov in Moravia or in Stupava in Slovakia, recently, in Milanovtsa in Nitra a Roman estate was found. Well-known Latin inscription on a rock in Trencin indicates that about 179 AD the Roman army penetrated into this part of Slovakia. Directly in the neighborhood of modern Moravia and Slovakia, there were two of the largest centers, Carnuntum with its international roads, and Aquincum with military and civilian city; in these parts the population reached several tens of thousands. On the southern bank of the Danube the stoned road was built by the Romans, and Roman navy supported the marine communication.

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