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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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Cironium (H,V)
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Corinium Dobunnorum (H,V)
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............ | ancient |
Korinion (H,V)
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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 |
Ancient Roman (H) |
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Romano-British (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 |
located on .... |
Ermin Street .......... (road) |
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(World, Europe, United Kingdom, England) [8712981] |
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