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Agri Decumates
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Agri Decumates
The
Agri Decumates
or
Decumates Agri
were a region of the
Roman Empire
's provinces of
Germania superior
("Upper Germania") and
Raetia
; covering the
Black Forest
,
Swabian Jura
, and
Franconian Jura
areas between the
Rhine
,
Main
, and
Danube
rivers; in present southwestern
Germany
, including present
Frankfurt
,
Stuttgart
,
Freiburg im Breisgau
, and
Weißenburg in Bayern
. The only ancient reference to the name comes from
Tacitus
' book
Germania
(chapter 29). However the later geographer
Claudius Ptolemy
does mention "the desert of the Helvetians" in this area.
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