Kalkriese
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Kalkriese is a village now administratively part of the city of Bramsche in the district of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on the northern slope of the Wiehen Hills, a ridge-like range of hil
Suspected site of the final Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Publius Quinctilius Varus
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Publius Quinctilius Varus was a Roman general and politician. Serving under Augustus, the founder of the Roman Empire, he is generally remembered for having lost three Roman legions in the Battle of t
Kalkriese
…identified as Kalkriese in 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic tribes ambushed and decisively destroyed three Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. The anti-Roman alliance was led by Arminius, an officer of Varus' auxiliary forces who had acquired Roman citizenship and received a Roman military…
Varus (left, sitting down), engraving from 1714
As Lugdunum I (RIC 230), countermarked "VAR" (Varus)
Lithograph by Swiss painter Martin Disteli depicting Varus falling on his sword during the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 1830s