Britannia (disambiguation)

Britannia is the original Latin name the Roman Empire gave to the island of Great Britain, a name later used for a female personification of the United Kingdom.

Britannia may also refer to:

• Britannia Bridge, a bridge across the Menai Strait
• Britannia (former building society), a British mutual institution, previously the second largest building society in the UK.
• Britannia coin, a British bullion coin issued since 1987
• Britannia Hotels, company
• Britannia Industries, a biscuitmaking company in India
• Britannia, Lancashire, a village and suburb in North West England
• 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 Theatre, a former theatre in Hoxton, London

Schools

• 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, a bridge linking the island of Anglesey to the mainland of Wales
• Britannia, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Britannia Range (disambiguation), mountain ranges in Antarctica and Canada
• Brittania No. 502, a rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada
• Britannia, Lancashire, a village and suburb in North West England

Publications

• Britannia (journal), a Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, published annually by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
• Britannia, William Camden

Sport

• Britannia Football Club, the precursor to the Collingwood Football Club, Victoria, Australia
• Britannia Stadium, the home of the English association football team Stoke City F.C
• Berliner Thor- und Fussball Club Britannia, a German football team, renamed Berliner SV after the First World War
• Britânia SC, former football club from Curitiba, Brasil (1914-71). Percursor of Paraná Clube.

Transportation

• HMS Britannia, any of several Royal Navy warships
• HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht), a British Royal Racing Yacht
• HMY Britannia, a former British Royal Yacht
• RMS Britannia, an ocean liner of the British Cunard Steamship Lines
• Britannia (whaler), a whaler wrecked in 1806 off the coast of Australia
• One of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.
• 70000 Britannia, was the first of the British Railways Britannia Class steam locomotives, built at Crewe in 1951.
  • Britannia Class refers to BR Standard Class 7 steam locomotives.
• Britannia Airways, a UK-based charter airline
• 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

• Britannia series, a series of BBC documentaries on various aspects of British culture
  • Comics Britannia, a documentary from 2007 on British comics
  • Birds Britannia, a documentary from 2010 on British birds
• 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
• Britannia, a fictional location in the Ultima video game series.
• Holy Britannian Empire, a fictional superpower in the anime series Code Geass.
• Sage (comics), a fictional character also known as "Britannia".

Landmarks

• Britannia Hut, in the Swiss Alps

See also

• Brittany
• Britain (name)
• Britannic (disambiguation)
• 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
• Cool Britannia
• Britannia Park