sentences:  Their territory on the left bank of the Rhine had belonged to the Mediomatrici during the time of Caesar and Strabo, but the Nemetes must have crossed the river and settled there sometime afterward.Under the Roman administrative organization of Gaul, the Nemetes constituted a "civitas" of the province of Upper Germany with a relatively small territory extending from the Rhine into the Palatinate Forest and an administrative centre at Speyer.Ptolemy mentions "Neomagus" (i.e.