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    second journal. The first issue of Britannia was published in 1970, edited by Sheppard Frere. The society produces two annual publications, the Journal of...
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    Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island...
    117 KB (13,352 words) - 06:27, 9 August 2024
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    antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland...
    26 KB (2,939 words) - 22:29, 10 April 2024
  • Britannia is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies...
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    Britannia Inferior (Latin for "Lower Britain") was a new province carved out of Roman Britain probably around AD 197 during the reforms of Septimius Severus...
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    legion was one of the four legions used during Claudius's invasion of Britannia. The commander of the Legion at the time was Vespasian. He led the campaign...
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  • Thumbnail for Britannia Superior
    Britannia Superior (Latin for "Upper Britain") was a province of Roman Britain created after the civil war between Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus...
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    refers to the island of Great Britain as Britannia major ("Greater Britain"), to distinguish it from Britannia minor ("Lesser Britain"), the continental...
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  • Thumbnail for Derventio Coritanorum
    Derventio was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today the area is known as Little Chester, on the outskirts of Derby, located in the English...
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    England and Wales", Britannia, Vol. 28, pp. 297–324 Wilson, Andrew (2002): "Machines, Power and the Ancient Economy", The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol...
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  • Thumbnail for Calleva Atrebatum
    Atrebates tribe. It then became a walled town in the Roman province of Britannia, at a major crossroads of the roads of southern Britain. The modern village...
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    as such in the press. A new iteration of the proposal named the London Britannia Airport was unveiled in November 2013. It was a proposed six-runway airport...
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  • Thumbnail for Britannia Royal Naval College
    Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC), is the naval academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy. It...
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    Pax Britannica (redirect from Pax Britannia)
    Primary sources Crawfurd, John (21 August 2006) [First published 1830]. Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-general of India to the Courts of Siam...
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    Latin: [ɛbɔˈraːkum]) was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britain and a provincial...
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  • Britannia was a merchant vessel launched at Kingston-upon-Hull in 1802. She repelled the attack of a French privateer in a notable single-ship action...
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  • Thumbnail for Roman roads in Britannia
    roads in Britannia were initially designed for military use, created by the Roman army during the nearly four centuries (AD 43–410) that Britannia was a...
    39 KB (3,425 words) - 21:01, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Romano-British culture
    following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia. It arose as a fusion of the imported Roman culture with that of the indigenous...
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  • Thumbnail for Derby Racecourse Roman settlement
    in Derby or Derventio which was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. It lies 600m east of Derventio fort in Little Chester, on the outskirts...
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    high ground overlooking the line of the Roman Stanegate road in northern Britannia during the early 2nd century. It later became incorporated into Hadrian's...
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