MARCODU´RUM
MARCODU´RUM in North Gallia. Some of the cohorts of the Ubii were cut to pieces by the troops of Civilis at Marcodurum, which as Tacitus observes (
Hist. 4.28) is a long way from the bank of the Rhine.
The termination
durum indicates a place on a river; and Marcodurum seems to be
Düren on the
Roer. The Frank kings are said to have had a palace there, named Duria Villa or Dura.
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