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List of Roman place names in Britain

A partial list of Roman place names in Britain (also includes Ireland, Faeroe Islands and Iceland) and their modern equivalents.

Table of contents
1 Region/state names
2 Island names
3 City names
4 See also
5 External links

Region/state names

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"\n!Latin||English name [other name]\n|-\n|Albion||Great Britain[PG]\n|-\n|Caledonia||Scotland\n|-\n|Cambria||Wales\n|-\n|Hibernia||Ireland\n|}

Island names

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"\n!Latin||English name [other name]\n|-\n|Malaeus||
Mull [PG]\n|-\n|Mona||Anglesey [PG]\n|-\n|Monaoeda||Isle of Man [PG]\n|-\n|Orcades||Orkney [PG]\n|-\n|Scetis||Skye [PG]\n|-\n|Taniatide||Thanet [RC]\n|-\n|Vectis||Isle of Wight [PG]\n|} Key:\n:PG = Ptolemy's Geography\n:RC = Ravenna Cosmography (7th cent.)

City names

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LatinEnglish names, [other name]
Aquae SulisBath
ArdotaliaGamesley, Glossop. Derbyshire
CaeseromagusChelmsford, Essex
CalcariaTadcaster, North Yorkshire
CallevaSilchester
CamulodunumColchester
CantabriaCambridge
ClausentumBitterne, Hampshire
CoriniumCirencester
CorstopitumCorbridge
DevaChester
DubrisDover
DunelmDurham
DurnovariaDorchester
DurocobrivisDunstable
DurocornoviumSwindon
DurolitumRomford
Durovernum CantiacorumCanterbury
EboracumYork
GarrianonumBurgh Castle
Glevum ColoniaGloucester
Halifacium, HortoniumHalifax
IscaExeter
Isca SiluriumCaerleon
LactodorumTowcester
Lindum ColoniaLincoln
LondiniumLondon
MamuciumManchester
MediolanumWhitchurch, Shropshire
NoviomagusChichester
OxoniaOxford
Ratae CoritanorumLeicester
SegontiumCaernarfon
Venta BelgarumWinchester
VerulamiumSt Albans
ViroconiumWroxeter, Shropshire
VindolandaChesterholm

See also

External links

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