page_title: Danube–Iller–Rhine Limes
hierarchical_section_title: Danube–Iller–Rhine Limes
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Abbildung aus der Notitia Dignitatum (Oxford (Bodleian Library, Ms. Canon. Misc. lat. 378), entstanden um 1440): Die symbolische Darstellung des Castrum Argentoratum im Kapitel des Comes tractus Argentoratensis als Zeichen seiner Zuständigkeit für den Grenzabschnitt des Rheinlimes bei Argentorate/Straßburg.
context_page_description: The Danube–Iller–Rhine Limes or DIRL was a large-scale defensive system of the Roman Empire that was built after the project for the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes in the late 3rd century AD. In a narrower sense the term refers only to the fortifications between Lake Constance and the River Danube; in a broader sense it also includes the other Late Roman fortifications along the river Rhine on the High Rhine and on the Upper Rhine as well as the Upper Danube.
context_section_description: The Danube–Iller–Rhine Limes (German: Donau-Iller-Rhein-Limes) or DIRL was a large-scale defensive system of the Roman Empire that was built after the project for the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes in the late 3rd century AD. In a narrower sense the term refers only to the fortifications between Lake Constance (Lacus Brigantinus) and the River Danube (Danubius); in a broader sense it also includes the other Late Roman fortifications along the river Rhine (Rhenus) on the High Rhine(between Lake Constance and Basle) and on the Upper Rhine (below Basle til Bingen) as well as the Upper Danube.
caption: Notitia Dignitatum: painting of Castrum Argentoratum as a symbol of the responsibility of the Comes for the section of the Rhine Limes in the region around Argentorate
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