Roman Place Names
This page covers questions of the style "Which (city, etc.) was known to the ancient Romans as ... ?"
Cities (and towns)
Aquae Sulis |
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Bath |
Aquae Arnemetiae |
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Buxton |
Gades |
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Cadiz |
Durovernum |
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Canterbury |
Luguvallum |
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Carlisle |
Deva |
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Chester |
Noviomagus Reginorum ("new field (in the land) of the Regini") |
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Chichester |
Corinium |
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Cirencester |
Camulodunum |
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Colchester |
Hafnia |
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Copenhagen |
Durnovaria |
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Dorchester |
Portis Dubris |
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Dover |
Isca Dumnoniorum |
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Exeter |
Glevum |
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Gloucester |
Ratae Coritanorum |
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Leicester |
Lindum Colonia (often known simply as Lindum) |
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Lincoln |
Londinium |
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London |
Mancunium |
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Manchester |
Mediolanum |
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Milan |
Pons Aelius |
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Newcastle–upon–Tyne |
Lutetia |
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Paris |
Sorviodunum |
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Salisbury |
Clausentum |
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Southampton |
Verulamium |
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St. Albans |
Vindobona |
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Vienna |
Venta Bulgarum |
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Winchester |
Eboracum |
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York |
Countries
Gaul |
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France |
Hibernia |
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Ireland |
Lusitania (approximated to) |
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Portugal |
Caledonia (north of the Antonine Wall, i.e. north of the modern
"central belt") |
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Scotland |
Helvetia corresponded roughly to what is now the western part of |
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Switzerland |
Cambria |
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Wales |
Other
Mona |
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Anglesey |
Vectis |
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Isle of Wight |
Bolerium ("the seat of stormes") |
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Land’s End |
Mare Nostrum |
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Mediterranean |
Sabrina (river) |
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Severn |
Name used in classical literature to denote a remote
place, beyond Britain; may have referred to either Orkney or Shetland |
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Thule |
Mediaeval Latin term, used to indicate a place that is at or beyond the borders of the known world. Nowadays
(especially in quizzes) most often taken to refer to Shetland; but it has also been used at various times for Orkney, Iceland or Greenland |
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Ultima Thule |
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