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    The Ravenna Cosmography (Latin: Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, lit. "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names covering the...
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    Generally speaking, adjectival "Ravenna" and "Ravennate" are more common for most adjectival uses—the Ravenna Cosmography, Ravenna grass, the Ravennate fleet—while...
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  • is described as a leader of the Saxon invaders of Britain in the Ravenna Cosmography. This says that "in oceano vero occidentale est insula quae dicitur...
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    an Ostrogothic geographer of Italy named Marcomir. The much later Ravenna Cosmography which reproduces some of his reports uses the term "Old Saxony" to...
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  • football club based in Ravenna, Italy Ravenna Cosmography, a 7th-century map of the known world 3rd Infantry Division "Ravenna", an Italian division of...
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    Ancient Greek. At a much later date the Ravenna Cosmography, which was compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around AD 700, mentions various Scottish...
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    modern Argyll. Ptolemy does not list a town for the Epidii, but the Ravenna Cosmography (RC 108.4) mentions Rauatonium, which is assumed to be Southend....
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    Scotland. The settlement may be the "Rumabo" listed in the 7th-century Ravenna Cosmography. The fort was established around 140 AD and occupied until around...
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    west of the Durotriges. The name purocoronavium that appears in the Ravenna Cosmography implies the existence of a sub-tribe called the Cornavii or Cornovii...
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  • Ptolemy's Geography, Tacitus's Annales, The Antonine Itinerary and the Ravenna Cosmography, as well as on monuments such as the tomb inscription for Gnaeus...
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    (Icenoi), as having a town called Venta. Venta, also mentioned in the Ravenna Cosmography, and the Antonine Itinerary, was a settlement near the village of...
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    Coritani and Coritavi in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography. However, the Ravenna Cosmography gives the name of their capital, in apparently corrupt form, as Rate...
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    Names AI: The Antonine Itinerary P: Ptolemy's Geography RC: The Ravenna Cosmography T: Tacitus's On the Life and Character of Julius Agricola. SP: Confession...
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    also attest to Maponos in Britain. Both are from the 7th-century Ravenna Cosmography. Locus Maponi (Richmond & Crawford #228) or "the place of Maponos"...
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  • mention by Ptolemy in c. AD 150. Their name appears in the 8th century Ravenna Cosmography as 'Segloes',[broken footnote] but the document here is taken to...
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    from the natives, and eventually the spread of Christianity. The Ravenna Cosmography utilises a third- or fourth-century Roman map and identifies four...
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    flowing" and which it shares with the River Thames. The seventh-century Ravenna Cosmography mentions a Roman settlement named Tamaris, but it is unclear to which...
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    any plausible referents for them." The Ravenna Cosmography, which was compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around AD 700, mentions various Scottish...
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  • belonging to the Vacomagi tribe. It is also included as Pinnatis in the Ravenna Cosmography. The site was originally referred to by Ptolemy in Ancient Greek...
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    and sometimes in modern texts referred to as Ripuarian Franks. The Ravenna Cosmography suggests that Francia Renensis included the old civitas of the Ubii...
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    was the place named as "Horrea Classis" or "Poreo Classis" in the Ravenna Cosmography. The Carpow fort was situated on a coastal plain on the southern...
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    4th-century Notitia Dignitatum, and Cantiventi in the 6th-century Ravenna Cosmography. An infantry unit of the Roman army based at the fort in 158 AD was...
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    Portus Adurni may be identical with the Ardaoneon listed in the Ravenna Cosmography, and Rivet and Smith derive both names from the British "ardu-" meaning...
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    Nympton, and have been identified with the name Nemetotatio in the Ravenna Cosmography near the site of modern-day North Tawton. A well known nemeton site...
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  • Dewnans, Breton: Devnent). There is evidence, based on an entry in the Ravenna Cosmography, that there may have been a sub-tribe in the western part of the...
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    anciently named Brefi, and the Latin name Bremia appears in the Ravenna Cosmography as a station on the route through Wales. The station and route are...
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    first written reference to the city dates to the 7th century (in the Ravenna Cosmography), but later local tradition places its foundation in 212 CE, and...
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  • (1506–1582): Rerum Scoticarum Historia (1582) AI: Antonine Itinerary RC: Ravenna Cosmography, Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia 2PG1: Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)...
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  • chronicle, the Excerpta Valesiana The Anonymus of Ravenna (Anonymus Ravennatis), author of the Ravenna Cosmography, a Late Antique geographical work The Anonymus...
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    by Ptolemy, but has been inferred from a place-name listed in the Ravenna Cosmography of c.700 AD as purocoronavis, which is considered to be a scribal...
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