Germania Superior

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Provincia Germania Superior
Province of the Roman Empire
85–475
The province of Germania Superior within the Roman Empire, c. 125
Capital	Mogontiacum
Historical era	Antiquity
• Established after the Gallic wars	85
• Gallic Empire	260–274
• Frankish Empire	475
Succeeded by Frankish Empire
Today part of	France Germany Switzerland

Germania Superior ("Upper Germania") was an imperial province of the Roman Empire. It comprised an area of today's western Switzerland, the French Jura and Alsace regions, and southwestern Germany. Important cities were Besançon (Vesontio), Strasbourg (Argentoratum), Wiesbaden (Aquae Mattiacae), and Germania Superior's capital, Mainz (Mogontiacum). It comprised the Middle Rhine, bordering on the Limes Germanicus, and on the Alpine province of Raetia to the south-east. Although it had been occupied militarily since the reign of Augustus, Germania Superior (along with Germania Inferior) was not made into an official province until c. 85 AD.^[1]