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    Venta Belgarum, or Venta Bulgarum, was a town in the Roman province of Britannia Superior, the civitas capital of the local tribe, the Belgae, and which...
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    Hampshire County Council. Winchester developed from the Roman town of Venta Belgarum, which in turn developed from an Iron Age oppidum. Winchester was one...
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  • used particularly for: Venta Belgarum (Venta of the Belgae), the Roman town of Winchester in England Venta Icenorum (Venta of the Iceni), the Roman...
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    (Portchester) and Clausentum (Southampton). The civitas capital was at Venta Belgarum (Winchester), which was built on top of an Iron Age oppidum (this was...
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    Hampshire's recorded history dates to Roman Britain, when its chief town was Venta Belgarum (now Winchester). The county was recorded in Domesday Book as divided...
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    recorded the town as Venta Silurum to distinguish it from the other tribal markets in Britain such as Venta Belgarum and Venta Icenorum.[citation needed]...
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  • Summerlands" Somerset Caer Uisc Exeter Uladh Ulster Vandalia Andalusia Venta Belgarum/Caer Uintan Winchester "The Wall" Hadrian's Wall Ynys Witrin "Isle of...
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    early-mid first century BC. The town wall of the Roman civitas capital of Venta Belgarum which succeeded the Iron Age settlement cut across its eastern end....
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  • early medieval British kingdom which had its center in the Roman city Venta Belgarum (now Winchester, Hampshire) and the historic lands of the Belgae tribe...
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    Portchester Rockbourne Roman Villa, Fordingbridge Sparsholt Roman Villa Venta Belgarum, Winchester Ariconium, Bury Hill, Weston under Penyard Blackwardine...
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    throughout the history of Hampshire, as in the Roman city of Venta Belgarum (Latinised as Venta), the post-Roman kingdom of Y Went, and the modern name of...
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  • region roughly corresponding to modern Hampshire with its capital at Venta Belgarum (modern Winchester). At first glance, the only similarity between the...
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    Eastleigh lies on the old Roman road, built in A.D.79 between Winchester (Venta Belgarum) and Bitterne (Clausentum). Roman remains discovered in the Eastleigh...
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  • little relation to the Roman names (e.g. Chester - 'Deva', Winchester - 'Venta Belgarum' etc.). Many English places derive part of their name from the river...
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    settlement of southern Britain, in what was then the settlement of Venta Belgarum. The area surrounding Winchester had been populated throughout the Iron...
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  • Modern Winchester was Venta Belgarum, the Win- element deriving from Venta in a similar way to the names Caerwent and Gwent from Venta Silurum in south Wales...
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  • Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester); one of the Belgae with its capital at Venta Belgarum (Winchester); and one of the Reg(i)ni, with a capital at Noviomagus...
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    Meon on the Roman road between Noviomagus Regnorum (Chichester) and Venta Belgarum (Winchester), and the inferred divergent point of the route to Clausentum...
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    city traces its history to the Roman Era, developing from the town of Venta Belgarum. It saw historic significance from its reconstruction under Alfred the...
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  • Mosonmagyaróvár Hungary 70 AD Clausentum Southampton United Kingdom 70 AD Venta Belgarum Winchester United Kingdom 70 AD Calleva Atrebatum Silchester United...
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    Cornovii (Midlands) Shropshire Town Yes Winchester Caer Guent (possibly) Venta Belgarum Belgae Hampshire City Yes Worcester Caer Guiragon Vertis Dobunii & Cornovii...
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    (61 m) wide. On top of this they built a fort to protect the city of Venta Belgarum. This site was chosen by William the Conqueror as the site of one of...
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    Leicestershire AI Venta Belgarum Winchester, Hampshire AI, P, RC Venta Icenorum or Icinos Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk AI, P, RC Venta Silurum Caerwent,...
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    Venta Silurum seems to mean "Market town of the Silures" (cf. Venta Belgarum and Venta Icenorum). This is confirmed by inscriptions on the "Civitas Silurum"...
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  • Rēgulbium, Rēgulvium Reculver Rutupiae Richborough Sobriodunum Salisbury Venta Belgarum, Wintonia Winchester Verulamium St Albans Vigornia Worcester Viroconium...
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    Atrebatum) C Towcester (Lactodurum) Whitchurch (Mediolanum) C Winchester (Venta Belgarum) C Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum) C York (Eboracum) C The druids...
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    linked Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) in the north with Winchester (Venta Belgarum) to the south. These cross-cutting highways, along with the good agricultural...
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    branched off Margary route 42 – the road from Calleva Atrebatum to Venta Belgarum (Winchester) – immediately outside the town's South Gate; this theory...
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  • Otterbourne, on the stream Otter Bourne, lies on the old Roman road between Venta Belgarum (Winchester) and Clausentum (Southampton). It appears in the Domesday...
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    Anton crossroads the Icknield Way, the Roman road from Winchester (Venta Belgarum) to Mildenhall (Cunetio). The Andover sections of these roads were constructed...
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