List of Roman place names in Britain
- List of Roman place names in Britain
A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain.
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 the British Isles.
The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and mis-spellings of the Latin names. Moreover one of the principal authorities, Ptolemy, wrote in Greek so names that he records need to be transliterated back into Latin to reveal the original form.
Note that in general only one source is shown below for each name, although many of the names are recorded in more than one of the sources.
Country names
City/Town names
ources
#Tacitus (Cornelius Tacitus), "Britannia".
#AI: Antonine Itinerary
#Ravenna Cosmography ("Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia")
#Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus), "Geographia".
References
#A.L.F. Rivet and Colin Smith, "The place-names of Roman Britain". London, 1979 (reprinted by Book Club Associates, 1981).
External links
* [http://www.ipa.net/~magreyn#Record�Interpreter List of Roman Place names in Great Britain and Ireland]
See also
* List of Latin place names in Europe
* List of Latin place names in the British Isles
* Latin names of cities
* Latin names of islands
* Latin names of lakes
* Latin names of mountains
* Latin names of regions
* Latin names of European countries
* History of Britain
* History of Ireland
* Roman sites in the United Kingdom
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