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The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, also called the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster (Latin: Clades Variana) by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place somewhere near modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries.
Arminius (/ ɑːr ˈ m ɪ n i ə s /; 18/17 BC–AD 21) was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, in which three Roman legions under the command of general and governor Publius Quinctilius Varus were destroyed.
The anti-Roman alliance was led by Arminius, an officer of Varus' auxiliary forces who had acquired Roman citizenship and received a Roman military education. The Romans' saltus Teutoburgiensis (Teutoburg Pass) is taken to refer to the strip of cultivated land with a width of 220 m (720 ft) which lies between the Kalkrieser Berg and a large ...
The monument was constructed between 1838 and 1875 to commemorate the Cherusci war chief Arminius (in German, Hermann) and his victory over Rome at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD. When the statue was built, its location was believed to be near the original battle site, although experts now consider it more likely that the battle ...
The highest elevation in the Southern Teutoburg Forest is the Velmerstot (468 m or 1,535 ft) south of Horn-Bad Meinberg. In the Northern Teutoburg Forest the highest elevation is the Dörenberg (331 m or 1,086 ft) north of Bad Iburg. The river Ems has its source at the western base of the southernmost portion of the Teutoburg Forest.
Hermannsweg in Teutoburg Forest near Oerlinghausen. The Hermannsweg starts and ends in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, but also crosses part of Lower Saxony.The trail starts at a low altitude of less than 100 metres (330 ft) in Rheine, in the North-West of North Rhine-Westphalia, and runs to the South-East through Bervergern, Ibbenbüren, Tecklenburg, Bad Iburg, Hilter, Borgholzhausen ...
Publius Quinctilius Varus (Cremona, 46 BC – near Kalkriese, AD 9) was a Roman general and politician under the first Roman emperor Augustus.Varus is generally remembered for having lost three Roman legions when ambushed by a coalition of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the chieftain of the Cherusci tribe in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where he committed suicide to avoid capture and ...
Tacitus’ Annals were rediscovered in the early 1400s and became more widely known from 1492. [2] Part of the Annals discusses the figure of Arminius, a Germanic chieftain who commands a confederation of tribes to defeat a superior Roman force at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9AD, thereby rescuing the tribes from Roman domination.