Britannia (disambiguation)

Britannia is the original Latin name the Roman Empire gave to the island of Great Britain.

Britannia may also refer to:

* Britannia Building Society, a British mutual institution
* Britannia coin, a British bullion coin issued since 1987
* Britannia Hotels, company
* Britannia Industries, a biscuitmaking company in India
* Britannia metal, an alloy of pewter
* Britannia Monument, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
* Britannia railway station, Melbourne, Australia
* Britannia silver, an alloy of silver
* Britannia Stadium, the home of the English association football team Stoke City F.C
* Britannia Theatre, a former theatre in Hoxton, London

chools

* Britannia Royal Naval College, the Royal Navy's officer training establishment at Dartmouth, Devon, England
* Britannia High School, in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England
* Britannia Secondary School, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Geography

* Roman Britain, the province of the Roman Empire called Britannia
** Britannia Prima created after 312 AD
** Britannia Secunda created after 312 AD
** Britannia Inferior, a subdivision of the Roman province of Britannia from 167 AD, based at York
** Britannia Superior based at London
* Britannia (Ottawa), a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
* Britannia Beach, British Columbia, a small town near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
* Britannia Bridge
* Britannia, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
* Britannia Range, mountains in Antarctica
* Brittania No. 502, Saskatchewan, Canada

Publications

* Britannia (book), William Camden's great work of chorography, 1st edition, 1586
* Britannia (journal), "a Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies", published annually by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
* Britannia (magazine), a publication for expatriate Britons
* Britannia (newspaper), a newspaper published by the suffragettes (WSPU) during World War I

Transportation

* Britannia Airways, a UK based charter airline
* HMS "Britannia", several Royal Navy warships
* HMY "Britannia" (Royal Cutter Yacht), a British Royal Racing Yacht
* HMY "Britannia", a British Royal Yacht
* RMS "Britannia", an ocean liner of the British Cunard Steamship Lines
* BR standard class 7, the British Railways "Britannia class" steam locomotives
** 70000 "Britannia", the first of the class
* Brittannia (ship), a whaler wrecked in 1806 of the coast of Australia
* Bristol Britannia, an airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1952
* Bristol Type 603, or "Bristol Britannia", a vehicle made by Bristol Cars (1982–1994)

Popular culture

* Brittannia Game Designs
* Comics Britannia, a British television documentary on comics
* Sage (comics), a fictional character also known as "Britannia".
* Britannia (Ultima), a land in the "Ultima" game series
** Britannia (Ultima Online), the setting of the game "Ultima Online"
* Britannia (board game), a historical board game first produced in 1986
* Britannia (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby bear made by Ty, Inc. during the late 1990s in honor of and exclusively sold in the United Kingdom
* Holy Britannia Empire, a fictional superpower in the anime series "Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion"

ee also

* Britain (name)
* Britannic
* Encyclopædia Britannica
* Headley Britannia, an eventing mare born in 1993
* Pugnaces Britanniae, an extinct breed of fighting dog
* "Rule, Britannia!", a British patriotic anthem written by Thomas Arne in the 18th century