outside Roman rule, while the Germanic border tribes of the Batavi and Cananefates served in the Roman cavalry. The Batavi rose against the Romans in the
Despite Dutch neutrality, Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). On 15 May 1940, one day after the bombing
Municipium Cananefatium, i.e. "Town of the Cananefates", since the site formed the nucleus of the civitas of the Cananefates, who lived west of the Batavians.