The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler Volume 4, The Medieval World.

Episode 19, The Battle of Lechfeld. Oh, you know. Oh, Lechfeld is a plane in the region of Bavaria in the south of the

modern country of Germany which is close to the city of Augsburg. It takes its name from the

river Lech which flows from the alpine lands of Austria down through southern Germany before emptying into the Danube.

These lands to the north of the Alps were inhabited by peoples closely related to Celtic cultures during the Iron Age. On the opposite

side of the Alps is the Italian Peninsula and during the second half of the

first millennium B.C.C. the power of the Romans

emerged and started to take control over more and more lands until the beginning of

the first century

B.C. when as the Roman Republic it had control

over the Italian Peninsula

and large portions of the Iberian

the Iberian and Balkan Peninsula. In the final years of the Roman Republic

and despite the political fractures,

Rome would expand its influence significantly by consolidating its realm on the

lands of the Mediterranean Sea and would also conquer the lands of Gaul in the west of Europe under Julius Caesar.

After the years of Julius Caesar, the Roman Republic continued to remain in civil war

until the emergence of an ultimate victor who would rule the Roman Empire as the Emperor Augustus.

The future Emperor Tiberius served as a military leader under Augustus and alongside his own brother Droususus

Tiberius would campaign in Bavaria. The Celtic peoples of this area were referred to by the Romans as Riesians and Vindaleeche.

When Tiberius and Drousus conquered the lands it would be incorporated as the province of Risha and Vindelica, and a capital city was established on the river Lech where it is met by the river Verde and the city was

called Augusta Vindelichoram in the Emperor's honour.

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