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Map from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain. [1] This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Britain . The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names.
This is a list of cities in Great Britain during the period of Roman occupation from 43 AD to the 5th century. Roman cities were known as civitas in Latin. They were mostly fortified settlements where native tribal peoples lived, governed by the Roman officials. The majority of the cities ( civitates) listed are either former Iron Age tribal ...
Castra Vetera (15 BC to 110 AD) - Colonia Ulpia Traiana (after 110 AD) Xanten. Germany. 15 BC. Pons Drusi. Bolzano. Italy. 15 BC. Ovilava.
Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410. [ 1][ 2] Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 55 and 54 BC as part of his Gallic Wars. [ 3] According to Caesar, the Britons had been ...
Roman towns in what is now England, by original name if known Subcategories. ... List of Roman place names in Britain; Oldest town in Britain; A. Alchester (Roman town)
Londinium, also known as Roman London, was the capital of Roman Britain during most of the period of Roman rule. Most twenty-first century historians think that it was originally a settlement established shortly after the Claudian invasion of Britain, on the current site of the City of London around 47–50 AD, [4] [5] [3] but some defend an older view that the city originated in a defensive ...
The first known recorded mention of Eboracum by name is dated c. 95–104 AD, and is an address containing the genitive form of the settlement's name, Eburaci, on a wooden stylus tablet from the Roman fortress of Vindolanda in what is now the modern Northumberland. [ 1] During the Roman period, the name was written both Eboracum and Eburacum ...
To use it, one must understand German names of countries, as they were in 1909. The original was re-edited and expanded in a multi-volume edition in 1972. A.L.F. Rivet and Colin Smith, The place-names of Roman Britain, London, 1979 (reprinted by Book Club Associates, 1981).