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Mayen is a town inside the Mayen Koblenz District of the Rhineland-Palatinate Federal State of Germany, in the eastern a part of the Volcanic Eifel Region. Mayen is the administrative centre of the Vordereifel Collective Municipality, although it isn't always part of the municipality. Even in Roman times, Mayen Lat. Megina changed into an critical financial centre. From the cease of the 3rd century up until the center Ages, potteries operated right here, and their products had been traded and bought throughout Central Europe.

During prehistoric times, close by quarries had been the sources of basalt to make millstones and tuff used to make sarcophagi. These sarcophagi have been found buried with good sized glass artifacts as grave items. Both classes of items are displayed within the Genovevaburg Museum in Mayen. The name Mayen probable comes from the name Megina. Records from as a ways returned as 847 show this as a designation of the metropolis; it become tailored by the Romans from the Celtic word magos, meaning field. In the eighth century the legend of Genoveva of Brabant, names Mayen because the seat of presidency of Duke Siegfried of the Pfalz.

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