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 | | Known in Latin as the "limes," the road was in use from roughly A.D. 50 to A.D. 350, before it fell into disrepair and eventually disappeared underground, said archaeologist Wilfried Hessing, who is leading the excavations in Houten, about 30 miles southeast of Amsterdam. |
 | | The stretch of road discovered in Houten is believed to have connected two forts _ Traiectum, which gives its name to the modern city of Utrecht, and Fectio, modern Vechten. |
 | | Romans first entered this part of the Netherlands under Julius Caesar in the year 53 B.C. According to the Roman historian Tacitus, an uprising began in A.D. 69 when a local Germanic tribe captured two coastal forts. |
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