Oldest German town - Trier

Trier is a city in Germany on the western bank of the Moselle River. It is the oldest large city in Germany,having already established a population in the tens of thousands before 100 AD. Trier lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of ruddy sandstone in the west of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, near the German border with Luxembourg and within the important Mosel-Saar-Ruwer wine-growing region. Trier is one of several cities that each claim to be the oldest city in Germany.Trier is the seat of the Archbishopric of Trier, as well as being home to a university, a technical college, the administration of the Trier-Saarburg districtWith an approximate population of 100,000, Trier was until 2005 ranked fourth alongside Kaiserslautern among the state's largest cities, after Mainz, Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Koblenz. However, the census of the 30th June 2005 registered only 99,685 inhabitants. Verified sources nevertheless assert that the city of Trier is indeed of Roman origin. The Romans under Julius Caesar had first subdued the Celtic Treveri in 58 to 50 BC. In 16 BC, at the foot of the Petrisberg, upon which a military camp had been set up in 30 BC and abandoned again a few months later, the Romans founded the city of Augusta Treverorum ("City of Augustus in the land of the Treveri"). The honor of being named after the Emperor was one shared by only Augsburg and Augst in northern Switzerland. Following the reorganization of the Roman provinces in Germany in 16 BC, the Emperor Augustus decided that the city should become capital of the province of Belgica

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TRIER WAS FOUNDED BY TREBETA, AN ASSYRIAN PRINCE, CENTURIES BEFORE ANCIENT ROME. TREBETA WAS THE LEGENDARY FOUNDER OF TRIER HE WAS THE SON OF NINUS KING OF ASSYRIA A WIFE PRIOR TO HIS MARRIAGE TO QUEEN SEMIRAMIS. HIS STEPMOTHER SEMIRAMIS DESPISED HIM AND WHEN SHE TOOK OVER THE KINGDOM AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER NINUS TREBETA LEFT ASSYRIA AND WENT TO EUROPE HE LED A GROUP OF COLONIZERS TO SETTLE AT TRIER AROUND 2000 BC.