Augusta

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Contents 1 Augusta as a place name 1.1 In Australia 1.2 In Canada 1.3 In Europe 1.4 In the United States of America 2 Augusta as a personal name 3 Other meanings of Augusta 4 See also

[edit] Augusta as a place name

Augusta, a feminine form of the name of the Roman Emperor Augustus, is also part of the original Latin names of many ancient places.

[edit] In Australia

• Augusta, Western Australia
• Port Augusta, South Australia
• Shire of Augusta-Margaret River

[edit] In Canada

• Augusta, Ontario
• North Augusta, Ontario
• South Augusta, Ontario

[edit] In Europe

Augusta alone

• Paphos, Cyprus
• Augusta (Italy), Sicily
• Historical name for the Croatian island Lastovo

Augusta pronomen

• Augusta Treverorum: Trier, Germany
• Augusta Vindelicorum: Augsburg, Germany
• Augusta Perusia: Perugia, Italy
• Augusta Praetoria Salassorum: Aosta, Italy
• Augusta Taurinorum: Turin, Italy
• Augusta Raurica: Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland
• Augusta Traiana: Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
• Augusta Suessionum: Soissons, France
• Augusta Viromanduorum: Saint-Quentin, France

Augusta cognomen

• Bracara Augusta: Braga, Portugal
• Emerita Augusta: Mérida, Spain
• Caesar Augusta: Zaragoza, Spain

[edit] In the United States of America

• Augusta, Arkansas
• Augusta, Georgia
  • Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters Tournament
• Augusta, Illinois
• Augusta, Iowa
• Augusta, Kansas
• Augusta, Kentucky
• Augusta, Maine (capital city of Maine)
• Augusta, Michigan
• Augusta, Missouri
• Augusta, Montana
• Augusta, New York
• Augusta, New Jersey
• North Augusta, South Carolina
• Augusta, West Virginia
• Augusta, Wisconsin
• Augusta County, Virginia
• Augusta Township, Michigan
• Augusta Township, Minnesota

[edit] Augusta as a personal name

• Augusta of Treviso, saint
• Augusta of Saxe-Weimar (1811–1890), German Empress
• Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921), German Empress
• Augusta of Denmark (1580–1639), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
• Augusta of Cambridge (1822–1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772), later Princess of Wales
• Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737-1813), later Duchess of Brunswick
• Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768-1840)
• Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel (1797-1889), later Duchess of Cambridge
• "Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel The Richleighs of Tantamount
• Augusta von Fersen (1754-1846)
• Augusta Lundin (1840-1919) fashion designer
• Augusta Smith opera singer
• Josef Augusta, a Czech paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
• Josef Augusta (ice hockey coach), a Czech ice hockey player and coach
• Patrik Augusta, a Czech ice hockey player

[edit] Other meanings of Augusta

• 254 Augusta, an asteroid.
  • Augusta family, an asteroid family named after it.
• Augusta (honorific), a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
• Augusta (plant)
• Augusta (beer), from Germany
• Historia Augusta, the Latin name of Augustan History, a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman Emperors of the 1st and 2nd century.
• Augusta (spider) is a spider genus (Araneidae)
• Augusta (comic), a long-running comic strip by Angus McGill and Dominic Poelsma
• Augusta (cigar), a hard to find brand of cigar, manufactured in Brazil.
• Augusta Heritage Festival, an annual summer music and heritage festival in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

[edit] See also

• Agusta, the Italian helicopter manufacturer
• All articles beginning with "Augusta"
• USS Augusta, U.S. Navy ships named Augusta
• Aust, Gloucestershire, England, derived from Augusta

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