Augusta

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Augusta, a feminine form of the name of the Roman Emperor Augustus, is also part of the original Latin names of many ancient places named after him, as well as their modern descendants and later places given that name in honor of him or some other notable of his name.

Augusta can mean:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 In Australia 1.2 In Pacifica 1.3 In Canada 1.4 In Europe 1.5 In the United States of America 2 Sports 3 People 3.1 Royalty 3.2 Other 4 Fictional characters 5 Roman roads 6 Science 7 Other 8 See also

[edit] Places

[edit] In Australia

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

[edit] In Pacifica

• Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville Island

[edit] In Canada

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

[edit] In Europe

• Augusta (Italy), Sicily
• Augusta Praetoria Salassorum: Aosta, Italy
• Augusta Raurica: Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland
• Augusta Suessionum: Soissons, France
• Augusta Taurinorum: Turin, Italy
• Augusta Traiana: Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
• Augusta Treverorum: Trier, Germany
• Augusta Vindelicorum: Augsburg, Germany
• Augusta Viromanduorum: Saint-Quentin, France
• Bracara Augusta: Braga, Portugal
• Emerita Augusta: Mérida, Spain
• Isca Augusta
• Augusta Perusia: Perugia, Italy
• Caesar Augusta: Zaragoza, Spain
• Historical name for the Croatian island Lastovo

[edit] In the United States of America

• Augusta, Arkansas
• Augusta, Georgia
  • Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters Tournament
  • Augusta Regional Airport
  • Augusta AVA, a viticultural area
  • Augusta Mall
  • Riverwalk Augusta
• Augusta, Illinois
• Augusta, Iowa
• Augusta, Kansas
• Augusta, Kentucky
  • Augusta College
• Augusta, Maine (capital city of Maine)
  • University of Maine at Augusta
• 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 Charter Township, Michigan
• Augusta Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
• Fort Augusta, Pennsylvania
• Mount Augusta, Alaska

[edit] Sports

• Augusta GreenJackets, a baseball team
• Augusta Lynx, an ice hockey team
• Augusta Colts, an indoor football team
• Augusta International Raceway, Georgia
• Augusta FireBall, a soccer team
• Augusta Groove, a basketball team

[edit] People

[edit] Royalty

• Augusta (honorific), a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires
• Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822–1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Augusta of Denmark (1580–1639), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
• Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772), later Princess of Wales
• Augusta of Saxe-Weimar (1811–1890), German Empress
• Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921), German Empress
• Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
• Princess Augusta of Bavaria
• Princess Augusta of Cambridge
• Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737-1813), later Duchess of Brunswick
• Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel (1797-1889), later Duchess of Cambridge
• Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768-1840)
• Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales

[edit] Other

• Augusta Holmès, French composer
• Augusta Lundin (1840-1919) fashion designer
• Augusta Read Thomas, American composer
• Augusta Smith opera singer
• Augusta von Fersen (1754-1846)
• Augusta Webster, English poetess
• Augusta, Lady Gregory
• Josef Augusta, a Czech paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
• Patrik Augusta, a Czech ice hockey player

[edit] Fictional characters

• "Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel The Richleighs of Tantamount

[edit] Roman roads

• Via Augusta
• Via Claudia Augusta

[edit] Science

• 254 Augusta, an asteroid.
  • Augusta family, an asteroid family named after it
• Augusta (spider) is a spider genus (Araneidae)

[edit] Other

• Historia Augusta, the Latin name of Augustan History, a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman Emperors of the 1st and 2nd century.
• Augusta Heritage Festival, an annual summer music and heritage festival in the U.S. state of West Virginia
• The Augusta Chronicle
• Legio II Augusta, a Roman legion
• Augusta (album)
• Lancia Augusta, an automobile

[edit] See also

• USS Augusta, U.S. Navy ships named Augusta
• AUST (disambiguation)
• Augustus (disambiguation)
• Agusta (disambiguation)

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