Roman Place Names

This page covers questions of the style "Which (city, etc.) was known to the ancient Romans as ... ?"

Aquae Sulis		Bath
Aquae Arnemetiae		Buxton
Gades		Cadiz
Durovernum		Canterbury
Luguvalium		Carlisle
Deva		Chester
Noviomagus Reginorum ('new field (in the land) of the Regini')		Chichester
Corinium		Cirencester
Camulodunum		Colchester
Hafnia		Copenhagen
Danum (was a Roman fort in what is now)		Doncaster
Durnovaria		Dorchester
(Portus) Dubris, or Dubrae		Dover
Isca Dumnoniorum		Exeter
Glevum		Gloucester
Ratae Corieltauvorum (sometimes rendered as Coritanorum)		Leicester
Lindum Colonia (often known simply as Lindum)		Lincoln
Londinium		London
Mancunium		Manchester
Mediolanum		Milan
Pons Aelius		Newcastle–upon–Tyne
Lutetia		Paris
Sorviodunum		Salisbury
Clausentum		Southampton
Verulamium		St. Albans
Vindobona		Vienna
Venta Bulgarum		Winchester
Eboracum		York

Gaul		France
Hibernia		Ireland
Lusitania (approximated to)		Portugal
Caledonia (north of the Antonine Wall, i.e. north of the modern 'central belt')		Scotland
Helvetia corresponded roughly to what is now the western part of		Switzerland
Cambria		Wales

Mona			Anglesey
Armorica			Brittany
Duroliponte was a Roman fort in what is now the city of			Cambridge
Vectis			Isle of Wight
Bolerium ('the seat of stormes')			Land's End
Mare Nostrum			Mediterranean
Sabrina (river)			Severn
Name used in classical literature to denote a remote place, beyond Britain; may have referred to either Orkney or Shetland			Thule
Mediaeval Latin term, used to indicate a place that is at or beyond the borders of the known world. Nowadays (especially in quizzes) most often taken to refer to Shetland; but it has also been used at various times for Orkney, Iceland or Greenland			Ultima Thule