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A 1490 recreation of a map from Ptolemy's Geography showing the "Oceanus Germanicus" Edmond Halley's solar eclipse 1715 map showing The German Sea. One of the earliest recorded names was Septentrionalis Oceanus, or "Northern Ocean" which was cited by Pliny the Elder's Natural History. [2]
Before the adoption of "North Sea", the names used in English were "German Sea" or "German Ocean", referred to as the Latin names Mare Germanicum and Oceanus Germanicus, [107] and these persisted in use until the First World War. [108]
In the English Channel and the North Sea (Oceanus Britannicus and Oceanus Germanicus), the Classis Britannica was stationed at Portus Itius (Boulogne) in Gaul and later also used the Saxon Shore forts of Britannia as bases. As Roman power waned in the 4th and 5th centuries AD, so went the Roman navy.
Germania (/ dʒ ər ˈ m eɪ n i. ə / jər-MAY-nee-ə; Latin: [ɡɛrˈmaːni.a]), also more specifically called Magna Germania (English: Great Germania), Germania Libera (English: Free Germania), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, was a historical region in north-central Europe during the Roman era, which was ...
RMS Germanic was an ocean liner built by Harland and Wolff in 1874 and operated by the White Star Line.She was the sister ship of Britannic, serving with the White Star Line until 1904.
Britannicus' name at birth was Tiberius Claudius Germanicus. The agnomen , his first surname Germanicus , was first awarded to his paternal grandfather, Drusus the Elder , after his death in 9 BC to commemorate his victories over the Germanic tribes.
In the summer of 19, Germanicus had left to take care of matters in Egypt, and when he returned he found that Piso had ignored his orders to the cities and the legions. Germanicus was furious and ordered Piso's recall to Rome. [10] During the feud, Germanicus fell ill and, though Piso had left the province, Germanicus claimed Piso had poisoned him.
Oceanus was the eldest of the Titan offspring of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). [11] Hesiod lists his Titan siblings as Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus. [12] Oceanus married his sister Tethys, and was by her the father of numerous sons, the river gods and numerous daughters, the ...