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The Gallic Empire (in Latin, imperium Galliarum) is the modern name for the independent realm that lived a brief existence during the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century, from 259 to 274. The Gallic or Gallo-Roman Empire consisted of the break-away Roman provinces of Gaul, Britain, and Hispania, even peaceful Baetica in the south. The crisis was ignited when emperor Valerian was captured by the Sassanid Persians, leaving his son Gallienus in very shaky control. As governors in Pannonia staged unsuccessful revolts in Pannonia, this took the emperor to the Danube, leaving Postumus, who was governor of Upper and Lower Germany, in charge at the Rhine. The imperial heir Saloninus and the praetorian prefect Silvanus remained at Colonia Agrippina (Cologne), to keep the young heir out of danger and perhaps also as a control on Postumus' ambitions. Before long, after some successful border skirmishes, Postumus took control of Colonia Agrippina, and put the young heir and his guardian to death.
Postumus set up the Empire's capital at Augusta Trevivorum Trier, in what is now the Rhineland-PalatinateFlag Statistics Capital: Mainz Area:19,846 km˛ Inhabitants:3,880,000 2000 pop. density:196 people/km˛ Homepage:http://www. de/ ISO 3166-2:DE-RP Politics Minister-President: Kurt Beck ( SPD) Ruling party: SPD/ FDP coalition Map Rhineland-Palatinate (German of GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east, with its own senate, two annually elected consuls and its own praetorian guard. Postumus himself seems to have held the office of consul five times.
Beyond a mere symptom of chaos in the third century crisis, the Gallic Empire can be interpreted as a measure of provincial identification competing with the traditional sense of romanitas, of the cohesive loyalties of individual legions, and of the power accumulated by entrenched Romanized aristocratic kinship networks whose local power bases ranged from the Rhine to Baetica, although the extent of "Gaulish" self-identification that nationalist historians have inferred is probably inflated. Postumus declared his sole intention was to protect Gaul — this was his larger Imperial task — and in 261 he repelled mixed groups of FranksCharlemagne or Karl der Grosse ( Charles the Great) in Frankfurt The Franks formed one of several west Germanic tribes who entered the late Roman Empire from Frisia as foederati and established a lasting realm in an area that covers part of today's France and AlamanniThe Alamanni or Allemanni or Alemanni are a Germanic tribe, first mentioned by Dio Cassius, under the year 213. They apparently dwelt in the basin of the Main River, to the south of the Chatti. According to Asinius Quadratus their name "all men" indicates to hold the Rhine limesFor other meanings see lime''. A limes is a Roman wall marking the boundaries of the Roman Empire. The most notable examples of Limes are: Hadrian's Wall Antonine Wall Upper Germanic or Rhaetian Limes The latin word limes underlies the abbreviation lim us secure, though lands beyond the upper Rhine and Danube had to abandoned to the barbarians within a couple of years.
The Empire also had its own series of consulFor modern diplomatic consuls see Consulate general. Consul (abbrev. was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire. Under the Republic, the minimum age of election to consul for patricians was 40 years of as, but not all of the names of the consuls have survived.
Its emperors are known primarily from the coinThis article is about monetary coins. For alternative meaning see see word coinage. euro coin A coin is generally a piece of hard material, traditionally metal and usually in the shape of a disc, which is used as a form of money. With banknotes, coins maks they minted. The political and military history of the Gallic Empire can be sketched through their careers. Their names are as follows:
