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Trier: History, Former Names & Timeline

Germany's oldest city, residence of the western Caesar under the Tetrarchy and known as the “second Rome”.

Map showing Trier in AD 200Trier
Border map for AD 200. See Europe in AD 200.

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Former names of Trier

FromNameNote
16 BCAugusta Treverorum ·
AD 900Trier

Timeline of Trier

YearEvent
16 BCFounded under Augustus
AD 293Becomes the residence of Constantius I
1818Karl Marx is born in Trier

Who ruled Trier

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–401 BCUnclaimed / no data
400 BC–324 BCHallstatt culture
323 BC–2 BCUnclaimed / no data
1 BC–299Roman Empire
300–399Rome (Constantinus)
400–499Western Roman Empire
500–599Franks
600–799Frankish Kingdom
800–899Carolingian Empire
900–999East Francia
1000–1649Holy Roman Empire
1650–1782Luxembourg
1783–1879Prussia
1880–1913Germany
1914–1919German Empire
1920–1944Germany
1945–1959Germany (France)
1960–1993West Germany
1994–todayGermany

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