Trier is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. Founded by the Celts in the late 4th century BC as Treuorum. conquered 300 years later by the Romans, who renamed it Augusta Treverorum. In 1581, the Trier witch trials were perhaps the largest witch trials in European history. Trier-Saarburg district was established in the 17th century.
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Trier is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. Founded by the Celts in the late 4th century BC as Treuorum and conquered 300 years later by the Romans, who renamed it Augusta Treverorum. With an approximate population of 105,000, Trier is the fourth-largest city in its state, after Mainz, Ludwigshafen, and Koblenz. In the Middle Ages, the archbishop-elector of Trier was an important prince of the Church who controlled land from the French border to the Rhine. The city made headlines in 2020 when an allegedly drunk driver killed 5 people by driving over them. It is one of the five central places of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, along with Luxembourg, Metz and Saarbrücken. In 1581, the Trier witch trials were perhaps the largest witch trials in European history. A session of the Reichstag was held in Trier in 1512, during which the demarcation of the Imperial Imperial Circles was definitively established.
The University was founded in the city in the 1473, and Trier-Saarburg district was established in the 17th century. The Academy of European Law and the University of Saarburg are all based in the town. Trier has a population of around 100,000 people, making it one of Germany’s most popular tourist destinations. It has a reputation for being a good host city. It was the birthplace of Saint Ambrose, the first bishop of the Holy Roman Empire. It became the capital of the province of Belgic Gaul after the Diocletian Reforms, and the seat of the prefecture of the Gauls, overseeing much of the Western Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries. In 870, it became part of Eastern Francia, which developed into the Roman Empire, and was recognized as an electorate of the empire, one of most powerful states of Germany.
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