Editing Worms, Germany (section)

===Antiquity===
Worms was in ancient times a Celtic city named ''Borbetomagus'', perhaps meaning "water meadow".<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Etymologie.info|quote=damit der Bedeutung von 'Borbetomagus' = dt. 'Wasserwiese'|url=http://www.etymologie.info/~e/i_/it-__lo__.html|title=Etymologie}}</ref> Later it was conquered by the Germanic [[Vangiones]] tribe. In 14 BC, Romans under the command of [[Nero Claudius Drusus|Drusus]] captured and fortified the city, and from that time onwards, a small troop of infantry and cavalry was garrisoned there. The Romans renamed the city as ''Augusta Vangionum'', after the [[Augustus|then-emperor]] and the local tribe. The name does not seem to have taken hold, however, and from ''Borbetomagus'' developed the German ''Worms'' and Latin ''Wormatia''; as late as the modern period, the city name was written as ''Wormbs''.<ref>see ''Apologia Der Stadt Wormbs Contra Bistum Wormbs'', 1694.</ref> The garrison grew into a small town with a regular Roman street plan, a forum, and temples for the main gods [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]], [[Juno (mythology)|Juno]], [[Minerva]] (whose temple was the site of the later cathedral), and [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]].

[[File:Martinskirche Worms Portal.jpg|thumb|St Martin's Church|left]]

Roman inscriptions, altars, and [[votive offering]]s can be seen in the archaeological museum, along with one of Europe's largest collections of [[Roman glass]]. Local potters worked in the town's south quarter. Fragments of ''[[amphorae]]'' contain traces of olive oil from [[Hispania Baetica]], doubtless transported by sea and then up the Rhine by ship.

During the disorders of 411–413 AD, Roman usurper [[Jovinus]] established himself in Borbetomagus as a puppet-emperor with the help of King [[Gunther]] of the [[Burgundians]], who had settled in the area between the Rhine and [[Moselle (river)|Moselle]] some years before. The city became the capital of the Burgundian kingdom under Gunther (also known as Gundicar). Few remains of this early Burgundian kingdom survive, because in 436, it was all but destroyed by a combined army of Romans (led by [[Flavius Aetius|Aëtius]]) and Huns (led by [[Attila]]); a [[Belt buckle|belt clasp]] found at Worms-Abenheim is a museum treasure. Provoked by Burgundian raids against Roman settlements, the combined Romano-Hunnic army destroyed the Burgundian army at the Battle of Worms (436), killing King Gunther. About 20,000 are said to have been killed. The Romans led the survivors southwards to the Roman district of Sapaudia (modern-day [[Savoy]]). The story of this war later inspired the ''Nibelungenlied''. The city appears on the [[Peutinger Map]], dated to the fourth century.