Tongeren

Tongeren is the oldest town in Belgium, as the only Roman administrative capital within the country's borders [1]. The Romans referred to Tongeren as Aduatuca Tungrorum or Atuatuca Tongrorum, and it was the capital of the large Roman province of Civitas Tungrorum, an area which covered modern Belgian Limburg, and at least parts of all the areas around it [1]. Before the Roman conquests, this area was inhabited by the group of Belgic tribes known as the Germani cisrhenani [1]. Already in the fourth century, just as the Salian Franks were settling to the north, the city became the center of a Christian diocese under the influence of Saint Servatius, bishop of Tongeren, who died in 384 AD [1]. Aduatuca Tungrorum may have been destroyed by the Huns in 451 AD [1].