Which British city was known to the Romans as Magnus Portus?
"of abandonment and longer periods of neglect, the fort was occupied for almost sixteen centuries. The site is owned by the Southwick Estate but managed by English Heritage and is open to visitors throughout the year. Portus Adurni Portus Adurni was a Roman fortress in the Roman province of Britannia situated at the north end of Portsmouth Harbour. Listed in the Notitia Dignitatum, it is generally accepted as having been located at adjoining Portchester in the English county of Hampshire and was later converted into a medieval castle known as Portchester Castle. It is the best preserved Roman fort north"
"Portus Magnus, Algeria Portus Magnus was a Roman port in western Mauretania Caesariensis. It was located near Roman Portus Divinus and actual Oran (Algeria). ""Portus Magnus, spatio appellatus, civium Romanorum oppidum. (the locality is called ""Portus Magnus"", a city of Roman citizens). Plinius"" Portus Magnus (Great Harbour) was even named ""Arsenaria"" under the Roman Empire (the name is the one that can be seen in its former coat of arms). It has several Roman remains, mosaics, and artworks, which were deplaced to the museum of nearby Oran. During Roman times, the main exports from the area used to be grain"
"in the place called Arzew by the French colonists. Portus Magnus, Algeria Portus Magnus was a Roman port in western Mauretania Caesariensis. It was located near Roman Portus Divinus and actual Oran (Algeria). ""Portus Magnus, spatio appellatus, civium Romanorum oppidum. (the locality is called ""Portus Magnus"", a city of Roman citizens). Plinius"" Portus Magnus (Great Harbour) was even named ""Arsenaria"" under the Roman Empire (the name is the one that can be seen in its former coat of arms). It has several Roman remains, mosaics, and artworks, which were deplaced to the museum of nearby Oran. During Roman times, the"
"Tripontium Tripontium (Latin for ""Place of three bridges"") was a town in Roman Britain. It lay just off the Roman road later called Watling Street (and known today as the A5) at a site now chiefly within the civil parish of Newton and Biggin in the English county of Warwickshire and partly in Leicestershire, some 3.4 miles north-east of Rugby and 3.1 miles south of Lutterworth. Tripontium was established as a military frontier post soon after the Roman invasion of Britain in 47. Its name references the bridges over the River Avon and two of its tributaries. Tripontium was a"
"and salt. The city of Portus Magnus stood on a hill overlooking the ancient port. The inhabitants were mostly Roman citizens, working in commerce. The approximately 36-ha. area was paved in part or leveled by landfills. From the ancient city remains some walls and buildings, some cisterns for rainwater, traces of streets and even a small Forum (50 × 40 meters). Among the buildings there was -next to some Villas- probably a palatial resort of the 3rd century: inside there are remains of colonnades (porticus) and a spa. On one side of the Forum there was a small building that"
"Portus Lemanis Portus Lemanis, also known as Lemanae, was the Latin name of an ancient Roman fort, settlement and port in southern Kent. The modern village of Lympne derives its name from the ancient port. The first documentary mention of the site is found in the late 3rd century Antonine Itinerary, where it is mentioned as lying 68,000 paces (68 Roman miles) from Londinium (London) and 16,000 paces from the cantonal capital Durovernum Cantiacorum (Canterbury). However, there is archaeological evidence of much earlier use as a naval base: tiles stamped ""CL BR"" have been found indicating that sailors or marines"
"Dubris Dubris, also known as Portus Dubris and Dubrae, was a port in Roman Britain on the site of present-day Dover, Kent, England. As the closest point to continental Europe and the site of the estuary of the Dour, the site chosen for Dover was ideal for a cross-channel port. The Dour is now covered over for much of its course through the town. In the Roman era, it grew into an important military, mercantile and cross-channel harbour and - with Rutupiae - one of the two starting points of the road later known as Watling Street. It was fortified"
"of the ""civitates"" of Roman Britain, whose chief town was Caesaromagus (modern Chelmsford, Essex). The style of their rich burials (see facies of Aylesford) is of continental origin and evidence of their affiliation to the Belgic people. Their name was re-used as ""Trinovantum"", the supposed original name of London, by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his ""Historia Regum Britanniae"", in which he claimed the name derived from ""Troi-novantum"" or ""New Troy"", connecting this with the legend that Britain was founded by Brutus and other refugees from the Trojan War. In Chelmsford 123, a British television situation comedy produced for Channel 4"
"Itius Portus Itius Portus or Portus Itius, an ancient Roman name for a port in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, of unknown location. The main candidates have been Wissant and Boulogne, more usually called Gesoriacum, and later, Bononia, but a silted-up lagoon on the Flanders shore behind Calais now seems most likely. Julius Caesar described calling ships ad portum Itium (used twice) to embark troops for Caesar's invasions of Britain to Britain in 54 BC. It was certainly near the uplands round Cap Gris Nez (""Promunturium Itium""), but the exact site has been violently disputed ever since the Renaissance. Many critics have assumed that"
"had once some marble countertops and was graced by a statue (like a small ""Acropolis""). Behind the Curia there was a temple of unknown dedication and another very large: this second temple was dedicated to Venus, about 120 meters west of the Forum. The Vandals destroyed Portus Magnus in 430 AD. Some evidences of Christian worships showed a small port activity even under the Byzantines, but the Arab conquest at the end of the seventh century seemed to have put a complete end to Portus Magnus. During the French colonial times were discovered some beautiful mosaics of former Portus Magnus,"
"History of Porto Porto is the second largest city in Portugal behind the capital, Lisbon. Historic references to the city go back to the 4th century and to Roman times, although Celtic and Proto-Celtic remnants of ancient Citadels were found in the heart of where Porto now lies. In the Roman period the city developed its importance as a commercial port, primarily in the trade between Olissipona (Lisbon) and Bracara Augusta (nowadays Braga), but would fall under the Moorish Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 711. In 868, Vímara Peres, a Christian warlord from Gallaecia and a vassal of"
"of Greater London, and who are mentioned by Julius Caesar in his account of his expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC. In a later account of these expeditions by Orosius, they are referred to as ""civitas Trinovantum"", ""the nation of the Trinovantes"", with ""Trinovantum"" in this case being in the genitive plural. However, as ""civitas"" can also mean ""city"" and Latin neuter nouns often end in ""-um"" in the nominative singular, this phrase was misinterpreted by Geoffrey or his sources as ""the city Trinovantum"". In Roman times the city was known by the name Londinium, which appears to"
"to protect the remains, and White Cliffs Experience. All this has been widely criticised by, among others, Philp himself, who has said: Dubris Dubris, also known as Portus Dubris and Dubrae, was a port in Roman Britain on the site of present-day Dover, Kent, England. As the closest point to continental Europe and the site of the estuary of the Dour, the site chosen for Dover was ideal for a cross-channel port. The Dour is now covered over for much of its course through the town. In the Roman era, it grew into an important military, mercantile and cross-channel harbour"
"the British Museum in London. The city was afterwards included in the Province of Moesia, and, from the time of Diocletian, in Scythia Minor, of which it was the metropolis. After the 5th century, Tomis fell under the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire. During Maurice's Balkan campaigns, Tomis was besieged by the Avars in the winter of 597/598. Tomis was later renamed to Constantiana in honour of Constantia, the half-sister of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (274-337). The earliest known usage of this name was ""Κωνστάντια"" (""Constantia"") in 950. The city lay at the seaward end of the Great"
"respectively in the north and south of Algeciras Bay, but does not name Portus Albus. The hypothesis most widely accepted today is that Portus Albus stood within the present town of Algeciras, north of the city of Iulia Traducta in the old town. However, we must not dismiss the possibility that Portus Albus was a vernacular name of the city, or the name given to its port. The city is named by classical sources such as Pliny the Elder, Marcian of Heraclea and Pomponius Mela. However Pliny, in an obscure or inaccurate passage, places the city in Mauritania. According to"
"Luguvalium Luguvalium was a Roman town in northern Britain in antiquity. It was located within present-day Carlisle, Cumbria, and may have been the capital of the 4th-century province of Valentia. The Romans called the settlement at what is today Carlisle . This was originally thought to mean ""wall[ed town] of Lugus"" but has since been explained as a borrowed Brittonic placename reconstructed as *Luguwalion, meaning ""[city] of Luguwalos"", Luguwalos being a masculine Celtic given name meaning ""strength of Lugus"". The name apparently continued in use among Brythonic speakers in the Hen Ogledd and Wales and it was during that time"
"Portus Portus was a large artificial harbour of Ancient Rome. Sited on the north bank of the north mouth of the Tiber, on the Tyrrhenian coast, it was established by Claudius and enlarged by Trajan to supplement the nearby port of Ostia. The archaeological remains of the harbour are near the modern-day Italian village of Porto within the Comune of Fiumicino, just south of Rome in Lazio (ancient Latium). Rome's original harbour was Ostia. Claudius constructed the first harbour on the Portus site, north of Ostia, enclosing an area of 69 hectares (170 acres), with two long curving moles projecting"
"Antica the remains of Porto are open every Thursday, the first and the third Sunday of the month from 9.30 to 13.30. And upon request and advance booking at other times. Portus Portus was a large artificial harbour of Ancient Rome. Sited on the north bank of the north mouth of the Tiber, on the Tyrrhenian coast, it was established by Claudius and enlarged by Trajan to supplement the nearby port of Ostia. The archaeological remains of the harbour are near the modern-day Italian village of Porto within the Comune of Fiumicino, just south of Rome in Lazio (ancient Latium)."
"the most important cities of the Morini, was Gesoriacum, modern Boulogne-sur-Mer, called ""Bononia"" by Zosimus in late antiquity, and ""Bonen"" in the Dutch language. Itius Portus or Portus Itius was also the name of a Morini port city, generally considered to be either Wissant or Boulogne. The administrative capital or civitas during the Roman Empire was Tarwanna or Tervanna, modern Thérouanne (Terwaan in Dutch), today in France, inland from Boulogne. But in later imperial times Boulogne is referred to as a civitas itself, implying either that it had supplanted Thérouanne as ""civitas"" of the Morini, possibly after a partial destruction"
"in the north margin of the River Tagus. In 205 BC, the city (known as ""Olissippo"") was conquered by the Romans. In the 5th Century the Suebi conquered the area, followed by the Visigoths. In AD 714, the Moors conquered Lisbon, expanding the port with their Mediterranean and Atlantic trades. Port of Lisbon The Port of Lisbon (Portuguese: ""Porto de Lisboa"") is the third largest port in Portugal, located where the River Tagus and the Atlantic Ocean meet, in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. Due to its strategic location on the Portuguese coast between Europe, Africa, and the Atlantic, the"
"lead to the Romans. It measures 32m x 24.4m and the banks for the seating survive 4.5m above the arena. It was surveyed in 1909. It was probably a place of entertainment for the soldiers at the Roman fort which was established here. Charterhouse Roman Town Charterhouse Roman Town was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located just to the west of the village of Charterhouse-on-Mendip in the English county of Somerset. Its Latin name may have been Iscalis, but this is far from certain. Based on inscriptions on a pig of Roman lead BRIT."
"prior to the Roman conquest. A Roman road from Clausentum (a fortified harbour in what is now Bitterne, Southampton) passed through the area on route to Portus Adurni (Portchester Castle) and Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester). The crossing of the River Itchen at Mansbridge and the crossing of the River Hamble at Botley date to AD932. The road that linked those two river crossings would have followed the approximate route of the modern Grange Road. From Mansbridge, it is to the port of Southampton and to Winchester, which was for a period the capital of England. Kings of England owned hunting land"
"public footpath running along the escarpment, and another view from a poorly maintained footpath to the west (erroneously shown on the Ordnance Survey map as running through the centre of the remains). Portus Lemanis Portus Lemanis, also known as Lemanae, was the Latin name of an ancient Roman fort, settlement and port in southern Kent. The modern village of Lympne derives its name from the ancient port. The first documentary mention of the site is found in the late 3rd century Antonine Itinerary, where it is mentioned as lying 68,000 paces (68 Roman miles) from Londinium (London) and 16,000 paces"
"many places that were Roman-era ports but are now far inland. Caligula's abortive invasion of Britain c. AD 40 was probably to have departed from Boulogne. The Roman lighthouse which once stood there is believed to have been built by him. Boulogne is presumed to have been the point of departure for the conquest of Britain of 43 under Aulus Plautius, although the only surviving account of the invasion, that of Cassius Dio, does not mention it. The emperor Claudius followed later with reinforcements, and Suetonius tells us he sailed from Gesoriacum. Itius Portus Itius Portus or Portus Itius, an"
"Duroliponte Duroliponte or Durolipons was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Cambridge, located in the English county of Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. The site of Roman Cambridge is located on Castle Hill, just northwest of the city centre. The fort () was bounded on two sides by the lines formed by the present Mount Pleasant, continuing across Huntingdon Road into Clare Street. The eastern side followed Magrath Avenue, with the southern side running near to Chesterton Lane and Kettle's Yard before turning northwest at Honey Hill. It was originally an Iron"
"what is now Cumbria. Isurium or Isurium of the Brigantes (Latin: ""Isurium Brigantum"") the historical capital of the kingdom became a Roman fort and town in the province of Britannia at the site of present-day Aldborough, North Yorkshire, England, in the United Kingdom. Its remains—the Aldborough Roman Site—are in the care of English Heritage. ""Bremetennacum Veteranorum"" (Ribchester) and ""Mamucium"" (Manchester) as well as ""Coccium"" (Wigan) were all Roman forts stationed in Brigantia. Around 43 AD when the Brigantes were first recorded, Brigantia consisted of mossland, marshes and forests which they inhabited; such ancient forests include the Forest of Lyme and"
"BC, that present north Portugal and Galicia were fully pacified and under Roman control. During the Roman occupation, the city developed as an important commercial port, primarily in the trade between ""Olisipo"" (the modern Lisbon) and ""Bracara Augusta"" (the modern Braga). As the Roman Empire declined, these regions fell under Suebi dominion, between 410 and 584. These Germanic invaders settled mainly in the areas of Braga (""Bracara Augusta""), Porto (""Portus Cale""), Lugo (""Lucus Augusti"") and Astorga (""Asturica Augusta""). Bracara Augusta, capital of Roman ""Gallaecia"", became the capital of the Suebi. As trade collapsed, Portus Cale went into decline. Another Germanic"
"people being the first known inhabitants. Ruins of that period have been discovered in several areas. During the Roman occupation of the Iberian Peninsula the city developed as an important commercial port, primarily in the trade between ""Olissipona"" (the modern Lisbon) and ""Bracara Augusta"" (the modern Braga). Porto was also important during the Suebian and Visigothic times, and a centre for the expansion of Christianity during that period. Porto fell under the control of the Moors during the invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 711. In 868, Vímara Peres, an Asturian count from Gallaecia, and a vassal of the King"
"the Roman Empire, Marmarica included the ""Libycus Nomus"", located between the Catabathmus and the Bay of Plinthine (""Sinus Plinthinetes""). This area had formerly been considered part of Egypt. The city of ""Paraetonium"" (also ""Ammonia"", modern Mersa Matruh) was the westernmost town of Egypt, for which reason it together with Pelusium was known as the ""horns of Egypt"". About 10 stadia west of Paraetonium was ""Apis"", marking the border to the Libyan Nomos. ""Menelaus Portus"" (near modern Zawiyat Umm Rukbah), according to tradition founded by Menelaus, was known as the site of the death of Agesilaus II. The inhabitants of Marmarica"
"enrols 23,000 students and is ranked among the world's best modern universities. Portsmouth is also the birthplace of author Charles Dickens and engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The Romans built Portus Adurni, a fort, at nearby Portchester in the late third century. The city's Old English name ""Portesmuða"" is derived from ""port"", meaning a haven, and ""muða"", the mouth of a large river or estuary. The ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" has a warrior called Port and his two sons killing a noble Briton in Portsmouth in 501. Winston Churchill, in his ""A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"", says that Port was a pirate"
"Pons Aelius Pons Aelius (Latin for ""Aelian Bridge""), or Newcastle Roman Fort, was an auxiliary castra and small Roman settlement on Hadrian's Wall in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior (northern England), situated on the north bank of the River Tyne close to the centre of present-day Newcastle upon Tyne, and occupied between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. Pons Aelius was a fort and Roman settlement at the original eastern end of Hadrian's Wall, at the site now occupied by The Castle, Newcastle. The Latin name means Aelian Bridge and can be traced back to when emperor Hadrian –"
"to the town walls. However, a serious fire spread through the town centre and the forum, basilica and market hall were never rebuilt. The settlement is generally identified as the mentioned among the 28 cities of Britain by the later ""History of the Britons"" traditionally attributed to Nennius. Ratae Corieltauvorum Ratae Corieltauvorum or simply Ratae was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Leicester, located in the English county of Leicestershire. ""Ratae"" is a latinate form of the Brittonic word for ""ramparts"" (cf. Gaelic ""rath""), suggesting the site was an Iron Age oppidum. This"
"Magnae Dobunnorum Magnae, sometimes Magnae Dobunnorum (Latin for ""The Greats of the Dobunni"") to distinguish it from the Magnae of the Carvetii in northern Britain, was a Romano-British town and an important market centre for the British Dobunni tribe, located near modern-day Kenchester in Herefordshire, England. The town was shaped as an irregular hexagon, with a single main street along the line of the main Roman Road running east–west through the area, and an irregular pattern of side streets with tightly packed buildings leading off it. The Roman town is securely identified with the ""Magnis"" which appears both in the"