The Rhineland around the years of 38-15 BCE. Caesar is dead. His adoptive son Augustus becomes the first Roman emperor. In his attemps to secure the eastern border of Gaul, that is adoptive father Caesar had conquered, he sends his best friend and son-in-law Agrippa. There, Agrippa comes up with a plan and by doing that he will initiate the founding of Cologne in 19 BCE. More Info and Links to this podcast: linktr.ee/thofCGN

Roman general and later dictator Gaius Julius Caesar is the first human ever to write about the Cologne Lowland. When Caesar attacks and conquers Gaul in 59 BCE, he also fights Germanic tribes on the Rhine. There, he encounters a Germanic tribe, the Ubii. The Ubii will be very important for Cologne‘s history. More Info and Links to this podcast: linktr.ee/thofCGN

In this episode, we will talk about the time before there was a City of Cologne in the Rhineland. Just a big and fertile lowland, where half-nomadic people would live for many thousand years. Get to know how the climate here is and how it benefits Cologne's geography. If you are not really into all of that, skip this and go to the next episode about Caesar.
NOTE: I had to re-record this first episode. For this, I already had a better microphone. Please do not wonder, that I sound quite different in the next episodes. I promise, when episode 6 comes out, I sound better again. :) More Info and Links to this podcast: linktr.ee/thofCGN

The history podcast about the 2000-year-old City of Cologne (Köln) in Germany. Dive into the early history of the city being founded by the Romans? How did it become a bustling medieval city? How did Cologne perform during Napoleon and the Industrial Revolution? And how about the Nazi time? All of that narrated by a Cologne citizen. Triweekly schedule. More Info and Links to this podcast: linktr.ee/thofCGN