Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle · 9 AD
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, a battle recorded 9 AD: its site mapped, cited to 1 source, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
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At a glance
- Kind
- battle
- Date
- September 9 AD
- War
- Roman–Germanic wars
- Side 1
- Germanic tribes — led by Arminius
- Side 2
- Roman Empire — led by Publius Quinctilius Varus
- Result
- Germanic victory; three legions destroyed
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 AD | — | medium confidence | no observation date recorded | Placed at Kalkriese, where excavations since 1987 have found the battlefield most scholars accept. |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)