Frontiers Of The Roman Empire: World heritage site (limes in Germany and UK)

The site includes three walls in different parts of Europe. They were part of the frontiers of the Roman Empire.

• Hadrian's Wall
• Antonine Wall
• Limes Germanicus

Limes (plural: 'Limites') is the Latin name of walls at the border of the Roman empire. There were many such fortifications.

The Latin word has a number of meanings, but the most common one is border.

The term limes was used by Roman writers to describe paths, walls, boundary stones, rivers marking a boundary, but its meaning was not the same as the modern boundary.

Some notable examples of Roman limites are:

• Limes Arabicus — the frontier of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea facing the desert
• Limites Britannicus — Hadrian's Wall; Antonine Wall
• Limes Germanicus — Upper Germanic & Rhaetian Limes
• Limes Saxoniae — a medieval limes in Holstein
• Limes Tripolitanus — the frontier in modern Libya facing the Sahara

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  Reconstructed Limes
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  A fortification on the Limes
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  Reconstructed wooden watchtower
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  Hadrian's Wall