Trier

Burial place · Imperial capital

city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Location: 49.7557, 6.6394

What this place is

  • Imperial capital — an imperial residence from 293 and the seat of the prefecture of the Gauls, until that seat moved south to Arles early in the fifth century

Who is recorded here

What happened here

In art

About the place

Trier, formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves and Triers, is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the west of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border with Luxembourg and within the Moselle wine region.

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