Mainz

Mainz is the capital and largest metropolis of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is placed at the Rhine River at its confluence with the Main River, opposite Wiesbaden on the border with Hesse. Mainz is an independent town with a population of 206,628 and forms a part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Metropolitan Region.

Mainz was founded by way of the Romans in the 1st Century BC in the course of the Classical antiquity generation, serving as a army citadel on the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire and because the provincial capital of Germania Superior. Mainz became an critical city in the 8th Century AD as part of the Holy Roman Empire, becoming the capital of the Electorate of Mainz and seat of the Archbishop Elector of Mainz, the Primate of Germany. Mainz is famous as the house of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable kind printing press, who within the early 1450s manufactured his first books in the metropolis, including the Gutenberg Bible. Historically, before the 20th century, the town became regarded in English as Mentz and in French as Mayence.