Tongeren

Tongeren is a town and municipality placed inside the Belgian province of Limburg, in the southeastern corner of the Flemish region of Belgium. Tongeren is the oldest city in Belgium, because the simplest Roman administrative capital in the country's borders. As a Roman city, it became inhabited by way of the Tungri, and known as Atuatuca Tungrorum, it became the administrative centre of the Civitas Tungrorum district. The metropolis is a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network. The Romans mentioned Tongeren as Aduatuca Tungrorum or Atuatuca Tongrorum, and it become the capital of the large Roman province of Civitas Tungrorum,

an area which protected current Belgian Limburg, and as a minimum parts of all of the regions around it. Before the Roman conquests, this vicinity became inhabited by using the group of Belgic tribes called the Germani cisrhenani. Specifically the Eburoneswere the largest of those tribes and the only living around Tongeren. Caesar cited the citadel of the Eburones as Aduatuca, and this has led to a extensively universal concept that this will be equated to Tongeren.