Legio II Adiutrix ("Second Legion, the Rescuer") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in AD 70 by the emperor Vespasian (r. 69–79), originally composed of Roman navy marines of the classis Ravennatis . There are still records of II Adiutrix in the Rhine border in the beginning of the 4th century. The legion's symbols were a Capricorn and Pegasus .
23-623: The first assignment of II Adiutrix was in Germania Inferior , where the Batavian rebellion was at its peak. After the defeat of the rebels, II Adiutrix followed general Quintus Petillius Cerialis to Britain to deal with another rebellion led by Venutius. During the next years, the legion was to stay in the British Islands to subdue the rebel tribes of Scotland and Wales , with base camp probably at Chester . In 87,
46-603: Is joined by its first major tributary, the Gamderwasser. Less than 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) later the river carves through a limestone ridge in the Aare Gorge ( German : Aareschlucht ). It is here that the Aare proves itself to be more than just a river, as it attracts thousands of tourists annually to the causeways through the gorge. A little past Meiringen , near Brienz , the river expands into Lake Brienz . Near
69-805: Is the main source of water for the Grimselsee (Lake of Grimsel). The Oberaargletscher (Upper Aar Glacier) feeds the Oberaarsee , which also flows into the Grimselsee. The Aare leaves the Grimselsee just to the east to the Grimsel Hospiz, below the Grimsel Pass , and then flows northwest through the Haslital , forming on the way the magnificent Handegg Waterfall, 46 m (151 ft), past Guttannen . Right after Innertkirchen it
92-792: The Aar or the Moselle . The territory included modern-day Luxembourg , the southern Netherlands , part of Belgium , and part of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany , west of the Rhine. The principal settlements of the province were Castra Vetera and Colonia Ulpia Traiana (both near Xanten ), Coriovallum ( Heerlen ), Albaniana ( Alphen aan den Rijn ), Lugdunum Batavorum ( Katwijk ), Forum Hadriani ( Voorburg ), Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum ( Nijmegen ), Traiectum (Utrecht) , Atuatuca Tungrorum ( Tongeren ), Bona ( Bonn ), and Colonia Agrippinensis ( Cologne ),
115-544: The Diocese of Gaul . Up to the end of Roman control, it was an intensely garrisoned province that was inhabited by Romans and Ripuarian Franks in the 5th century. Its capital remained at Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, which also became the seat of a Christian bishopric , which was in charge of an ecclesiastical province that survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire . After the final abandonment of
138-650: The La Tène period , and it is attested as Nantaror "Aare valley" in the Berne zinc tablet . The name was Latinized as Arula / Arola / Araris . The Aare rises in the great Aargletschers (Aare Glaciers) of the Bernese Alps , in the canton of Bern and west of the Grimsel Pass . The Finsteraargletscher and Lauteraargletscher come together to form the Unteraargletscher (Lower Aar Glacier), which
161-594: The North Sea after crossing into the Netherlands . On May 26, 2022, Indonesia West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil 's eldest child, Emmeril Kahn Mumtadz, was declared missing after being swept away by the river current. Chronologically, Eril was swimming in the river with his sister and friends. When he wanted to rise to the surface, Eril was dragged by a fairly swift current of the river which had previously received help from his friend. The search efforts involving
184-548: The Rhine comprises about 295 kilometres (183 mi), during which distance it descends 1,565 m (5,135 ft), draining an area of 17,779 km (6,865 sq mi), almost entirely within Switzerland, and accounting for close to half the area of the country, including all of Central Switzerland . There are more than 40 hydroelectric plants along the course of the Aare. The river's name dates to at least
207-680: The Simme , by the Lake of Thun. Lake Thun marks the head of navigation . On flowing out of the lake it passes through Thun , and then flows through the city of Bern , passing beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City is located. To the south of the Old City peninsula is the Mattenschwelle [ de ] , a weir which provides water for
230-585: The Tungri ) increased during Roman times, leading to the assimilation of all Celtic peoples in the area. In fact, Germania Inferior had Roman settlements since around 50 BC and was at first part of Gallia Belgica . It was only under Domitian (r. AD 81 – 96) that new territories were acquired, between the high valleys of the Rhine and the Danube, following the campaigns conducted by his generals in AD 83 – 85, which led to
253-613: The Alps, and the former swamps have become fruitful plains: they are known as the "vegetable garden of Switzerland". From here the Aare flows northeast for a long distance, past the ambassador town Solothurn (below which the Grosse Emme flows in on the right), Aarburg (where it is joined by the Wigger ), Olten , Aarau , near which is the junction with the Suhre , and Wildegg, where
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#1732771773514276-667: The Seetal Aabach falls in on the right. A short distance further, below Brugg , it receives first the Reuss , its major tributary, and shortly afterwards the Limmat , its second strongest tributary. It now turns due north, and soon becomes itself a tributary of the Rhine , which it even surpasses in volume when the two rivers unite downstream from Koblenz (Switzerland) , opposite Waldshut in Germany. The Rhine, in turn, empties into
299-542: The capital of Germania Inferior. The first confrontations between a Roman army and the peoples of Germania Inferior occurred during Julius Caesar 's Gallic Wars . Caesar invaded the region in 57 BC and in the next three years annihilated several tribes, including the Eburones and the Menapii , whom Caesar called "Germanic" but who probably were Celtic or at least mixed Celtic-Germanic. Germanic influence (mainly through
322-702: The creation of two new imperial provinces, lower and upper Germany. Although this region had been occupied since the reign of Augustus , it wasn't formally established as a Roman province until around AD 85, with its capital at Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (modern-day Cologne ). It later became an imperial province . It lay north of Germania Superior ; these two together made up Lesser Germania . The adjective Inferior refers to its downstream position. The army of Germania Inferior, typically shown on inscriptions as EX.GER.INF. ( Exercitus Germaniae Inferioris ), included several legions at various times: of these, Legions I Minervia and XXX Ulpia Victrix were
345-736: The legion was recalled to the continent to participate in the Dacian wars of emperor Domitian . Between 94 and 95, still in Dacia, later emperor Hadrian served as military tribune in the II Adiutrix . In the summer of 106 the legion took part to the siege of the Dacian Capital Sarmisegetusa . After Trajan's Dacian Wars of 101–106, the legion was located in Aquincum (modern Budapest ), which would be its base camp for
368-428: The most permanent. The Roman Navy's Classis Germanica (Germanic fleet), charged with patrolling the Rhine and the North Sea coast, were based at Castra Vetera and later at Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis. As attested in the early 5th century document Notitia Dignitatum , the province was renamed Germania Secunda ( Germania II ) in the 4th century. It was administered by a consularis and formed part of
391-640: The police search and rescue team, maritime police, fire department, and authority of the city of Bern. One week after declared missing, Emmeril Kahn Mumtadz was declared dead in absentia at the age of 22. Although on June 9, 2022, Eril's body was located. The funeral procession of Emmeril “Eril” Kahn Mumtadz took place in the family's burial ground located in Cimaung, Bandung regency, West Java. Soon after news about Eril's body brought back to his home, Indonesian netizens review bombed Aare River's Google listing, leaving negative comments and one-star ratings as if
414-644: The province it became the core of the Frankish Kingdom . Aar The Aare ( Swiss Standard German: [ˈaːrɛ] ) or Aar ( Swiss Standard German: [aːr] ) is the main tributary of the High Rhine (its discharge even exceeds that of the latter at their confluence ) and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland . Its total length from its source to its junction with
437-660: The river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Aare-Hagneck Canal into the Lac de Bienne . From the upper end of the lake, at Nidau , the river issues through the Nidau-Büren Canal , also called the Aare Canal, and then runs east to Büren . The lake absorbs huge amounts of eroded gravel and snowmelt that the river brings from
460-567: The small Matte hydroelectric power plant . River swimming in the Aare is popular in Bern, and the river is sometimes full of bathers on summer days. The river soon changes its northwesterly flow for a due westerly direction, but after receiving the Saane or La Sarine it turns north until it nears Aarberg . There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction ,
483-562: The west end of the lake it indirectly receives its first important tributary , the Lütschine , by the Lake of Brienz. It then runs across the swampy plain of the Bödeli (Swiss German diminutive for ground) between Interlaken and Unterseen before flowing into Lake Thun . Near the west end of Lake Thun, the river indirectly receives the waters of the Kander , which has just been joined by
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#1732771773514506-2492: The years to come. Despite this, the legion or vexillations or subunits took part in: In 193, II Adiutrix supported emperor Septimius Severus during his struggle for the purple. - Gaio Valerio Crispo veterano ex legione II Adiutrice Pia Fideli. Chester ( Deva ), U.K. RIB 478. - Lucius Terentius Claudia tribu Fuscus Apro miles legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis. Chester, U.K. RIB 477. - Lucius Valerius Luci filius Claudia tribu Seneca Savaria / miles legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis. Chester, U.K. RIB 480. - Gaius Calventius Gai filius Claudia tribu Celer Apro miles legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis / Vibi Clementis (...). Chester, U.K. RIB 475. - Gaius Iuventius Gai filius Claudia tribu Capito Apro / miles legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis / Iuli Clementis annorum XL stipendiorum XVII. Chester, U.K. RIB 476. - Quintus Valerius Quinti filius Claudia tribu Fronto Celea / miles legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis annorum L stipendiorum XXṾ (...). Chester, U.K. RIB 479. - Voltimesis P̣udens Gai filius Sergia tribu Augusta eques legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis annorum XXXII stipendiorum XIII hic situs est. Chester, U.K. RIB 482. - Gaius Murrius Gai filius Arniensis Foro Iuli Modestus miles legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis / Iuli Secundi annorum) XXV stipendiorum / hic situs est. Bath , U.K. ( Aquae Sulis ). RIB 157 = CIL VII 48. - Titus Valerius Titi filius Claudia tribu Pudens Savaria miles legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis / Dossenni Proculi annorum XXX aera VI heres de suo posuit hic situs est. Lincoln ( Lindum ), U.K. RIB 258 = CIL VII 185. - legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis / Ponti Proculi Lucius Licinius Luci filius Galeria tribu Saliga Lugdunonnorum XX stipendiorum II. Lincoln ( Lindum ), U.K. RIB 253 = CIL VII 186. - Quintus Cumelius / Quinti filius / Fabia Celer Bracarensis / veteranus legionis II Adiutricis hic situs annorum LXXV (...). Astorga ( Asturica ), Spain. CIL II 2639. - Fortunae Balneari sacrum / Valerius Bucco miles legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis / decuria Aemili (...). Segovia , Spain. CIL II 2763. - VICTORIAE AVGVSTORV(m) EXERCITUS QVI LAV GARICIONE SEDIT MIL(ites) L(egionis) II DCCCLV (Marcus Valerius) MAXIMIANUS LEG(atus) LEG (ionis) II AD(iutricis) CVR(avit) F(aciendum). Laugaricio (today Trenčín ), Slovakia. Germania Inferior Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania")
529-461: Was a Roman province from AD 85 until the province was renamed Germania Secunda in the 4th century AD, on the west bank of the Rhine bordering the North Sea . The capital of the province was Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (modern-day Cologne ). According to Ptolemy (2.9), Germania Inferior included the Rhine from its mouth up to the mouth of the Obringa , a river identified with either
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