Early History until Early Middle Ages - History of Germany

From a traveler's perspective, history of the territory that today represents Germany needs a closer look with the times of the Romans to pursue a campaign of expansion into Germanic territory.
Germanic Tribes and Romans were involved in numerous battles which prompted Romans to build the Limes, a fortification 300 kilometers long, in the first century A.D. Cities like Cologne, Mainz or Trier do have their origins in ancient Roman settlements, in Trier impressive buildings dating back to these times can still be visited.

From the times of Roman influence up until the partition of the Frankish Kingdom by Charlemagne, history cannot be labeled as German history. But these are the times when European basics were shaped from a cultural, religious, ethnical and territorial perspective. Only during the Saxon Dynasty about 1000 A.D. something like the conscience of a German kingdom occurred, and started to replace the ancient Frankish kingdom. The city of Aachen still today shows the power of the Frankish kings.