Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg is historically one of the prince-bishoprics of the Holy Roman Empire, and belonged to the Swabian Circle.The present city of Augsburg appears in Strabo as Damasia (see Damasia on the German Wikipedia), a stronghold of the Licatii; in 14 BC it became a Roman colony known as Augusta Vindelicorum, received the rights of a city from Hadrian and soon became of great importance as an arsenal and the point of junction of several important trade routes.