From the middle of the first century a Roman military road connected it to the capital of the Roman province of Nervii in Bavay (Bagacum Nerviorum).
Located on the important road linking Cologne to Bavay via the relay of Liberchies, and surrounded by the fertile lands of the Hesbaye region, Roman Tongeren quickly became one of the largest Gallo-Roman administrative and military towns in the 1st century.
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