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'''Trier''' is a city in [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], southwestern [[Germany]], with a population of 114,914 (2016). It lies on the right bank of the Moselle (Mosel) River, surrounded by the foothills of the Eifel, Hunsrück, and Mosel mountains, just east of the border with Luxembourg.

'''Trier''' is a city in [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], southwestern [[Germany]], with a population of 114,914 (2016). It lies on the right bank of the Moselle (Mosel) River, surrounded by the foothills of the Eifel, Hunsrück, and Mosel mountains, just east of the border with Luxembourg.

== Centre of Christianity ==

== Center of Christianity ==

After it became a bishopric in the 4th century, the town was a centre of Christianity north of the Alps, a status it maintained after its capture by the Franks in the 5th century. Trier was designated an archbishopric in 815, its archbishops becoming temporal princes with power over extensive territory; they were made electors of the Holy Roman Empire in the late 12th century.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/place/Trier-Germany</ref>

After it became a bishopric in the 4th century, the town was a center of Christianity north of the Alps, a status it maintained after its capture by the Franks in the 5th century. Trier was designated an archbishopric in 815, its archbishops becoming temporal princes with power over extensive territory; they were made electors of the Holy Roman Empire in the late 12th century.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/place/Trier-Germany</ref>

== Roman Monuments ==

== Roman Monuments ==