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ID: 7011127
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Record Type: administrative |
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Cirencester (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 44 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.7333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 001 59 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -1.9833 decimal degrees |
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Note: Important Roman town at junction of Fosse Way, Ermine, and Akeman Streets; largest town in Roman Britain after London and may have been country's capital in the 4th century; captured by Saxons 577 and destroyed in Henry VIII's dissolution of monasteries in 1530s; important medieval wool town; many Roman remains are here. |
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| Cirencester (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Cicester (H,V,English,U)
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| Cirecestre (H,V)
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............ | recorded in 1086 |
| Corinium (H,O)
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| Corinium Dobunnorum (H,V)
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............ | ancient |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was Roman center |
| town (C) |
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| agricultural center (C) |
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| tourist center (C) |
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| ancient site (C) |
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| provincial capital (H) |
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of the Roman province of Britannia Prima, from the early 4th century CE |
| capital (H) |
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of the Dobuni tribe during Roman occupation |
| Roman center (H) |
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| Romano-British center (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital of .... |
Britannia Prima .......... (province) |
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(World, Roman Republic and Empire, Britannia, Britannia Superior) [7030354] |
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from the early 4th century CE |
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