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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Frontiers of the Roman Empire' has mentioned 'Roman Empire' in the following places:
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| Contents 1 Overview 2 Etymology 3 Limites in the Roman Empire 3.1 Britain and Gaul 3.2 Saxon Shore 3.3 Lower Germania 3.4 Upper Germania and Rhaetia 3.5 Danube-Iller-Rhine Limes (DIRL) 3.6 Noricum 3.7 Pannonia 4 Southern borders 4.1 Fossatum Africae 5 Post-Roman limites 6 In fiction 7 Gallery 8 See also 9 References 10 External links | WIKI |
| Fossatum Africae, the southern frontier of the Roman Empire, extending south of the Roman province of Africa in North-Africa. | WIKI |
| Limites in the Roman Empire[edit] | WIKI |
| At the greatest extent of the Roman Empire, the southern border lay along the deserts of Arabia in the Middle East (see Romans in Arabia) and the Sahara in North Africa, which represented a natural barrier against expansion. | WIKI |
| Following his African conquests, the Roman Empire may have reached its greatest extent during the reign of Septimius Severus,[15][16] under whom the empire encompassed an area of 2 million square miles[15] (5.18 million square kilometers). | WIKI |
| Fossatum Africae ("African ditch") is a linear defensive structure (limes) that extended over 750xc2xa0km or more[17] in northern Africa constructed during the Roman Empire to defend and control the southern borders of the Empire in the Roman province of Africa. | WIKI |
| Charlemagne considered his empire (later called the Carolingian Empire) as the true successor to the Roman Empire and called himself "Emperor of the Romans". | WIKI |
| The Roman Empire, in its territorial extent, was one of the greatest empires history has known. | UNESCO |
| Each section of the property constitutes an exceptional example of a linear frontier, encompassing an extensive relict landscape which reflects the way resources were deployed in the northwestern part of the Empire and which displays the unifying character of the Roman Empire, through its common culture, but also its distinctive responses to local geography and climate, as well as political, social and economic conditions. | UNESCO |
| With their forts, fortlets, walls, ditches, linked infrastructure and civilian architecture they exhibit an important interchange of human and cultural values at the apogee of the Roman Empire, through the development of Roman military architecture, extending the technical knowledge of construction and management to the very edges of the Empire. | UNESCO |
| They reflect the imposition of a complex frontier system on the existing societies of the northwestern part of the Roman Empire, introducing for the first time military installations and related civilian settlements, linked through an extensive supporting network. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii): As parts of the Roman Empirexe2x80x99s general system of defense the German Limes, Hadrianxe2x80x99s Wall and the Antonine Wall have an extraordinarily high cultural value. | UNESCO |
| They bear an exceptional testimony to the maximum extension of the power of the Roman Empire through the consolidation of its northwestern frontiers and thus constitute a physical manifestation of Roman imperial policy. | UNESCO |
| They illustrate the Roman Empirexe2x80x99s ambition to dominate the world in order to establish its law and way of life there in a long-term perspective. | UNESCO |
| They witness Roman colonization in the respective territories, the spread of Roman culture and its different traditions xe2x80x93 military, engineering, architecture, religion management and politics xe2x80x93 and the large number of human settlements associated with the defenses which contribute to an understanding of how soldiers and their families lived in this part of the Roman Empire. | UNESCO |
| The inscribed components convey the extraordinary complexity and coherence of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire in northwestern Europe. | UNESCO |
| At the international level, the States Parties have established an integrated management system consisting of three closely cooperating and interacting bodies: the Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) to oversee and coordinate the overall management at an international level; the Management Group which assembles those directly responsible for the site management of the property and provides the primary mechanism for sharing best practice; The Bratislava Group, an international advisory body with expert members from States Parties with inscribed or potential parts of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage property. | UNESCO |