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    Castellum A castellum in Latin is usually: a small Roman fortlet or tower, a diminutive of castrum ('military camp'), often used as a watchtower or signal...
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  • Castra (redirect from Castrum)
    forts. The diminutive form castellum was used for fortlets, typically occupied by a detachment of a cohort or a centuria. Castrum appears in Oscan and Umbrian...
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  • The Castello di Agrigento, also known as the Castrum Agrigenti, is a ruined castle in Agrigento, Sicily. In the Middle Ages, it was one of the most important...
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    Yalo (redirect from Castrum Arnaldi)
    Aijalon. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of a Crusader castle, Castrum Arnaldi. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jordan annexed the West Bank...
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    Navale Firmanorum and cited by Strabo and in the Tabula Peutingeriana as Castrum Firmanorum (Citadel of Fermo), it was bound to the development of the port...
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    local villages and town. Castrum Castrum Beffa Acciani and the first part of the name refers to the Roman castrum, castellum then, and even fortified...
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    Fectio, known as Vechten in Old Dutch, was a Roman castellum in the province Germania Inferior established in the year 4 or 5 AD. It was located at the...
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    of the last Roman reinforcements on the Rhine Limes, the late antique Castrum Alteium was built on the ruins of the civilian settlement. The fort's name...
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    reflex derived from this noun (cf. Italian castellum 'castle'), and the expected Italian reflex of Latin castrum would be **castro, not costa (cf. Latin...
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  • has it roots in ancient Illyria, Iapodes and the Roman castellum. Kastel or kȁstrum (lat .: castrum , Eng .: castle) is the name of an ancient fort and established...
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    walls and moat, was formed within the ruins of the Roman castrum and will be called Castellum vetus, or "Castelvecchio". Built between 900 and 1000, of...
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    Cartulary of Redon Abbey (1080) as castellum et castrum Goscelini, but already by 1108 it was appearing as Castellum Joscelini. The site chosen for the...
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    Castellum Beleismum – tower on biblical Tel Dothan Castellum Beroart – the Minat al-Qal'a Umayyad fort reused by the Crusaders; at Ashdod Castellum Regis;...
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    Ulpiana (section Castrum)
    the Northern Necropolis or Memoria. To the east of the city, there is a castrum, and to the northwest and south, there are two more necropolises, neither...
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  • Novi Banovci Cametas Ražanj Caput Bovis Sip Castellum Ognagrinum Novi Futog Castra Margensia Kulič Castrum Herculis Kurvingrad, Koprijan Clevora Mihajlovac...
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    in mutiny with those from Vetera stationed at their summer garrison in Castrum Novasium. Germanicus however remained loyal to Tiberius, who was heir to...
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    port at Castellum (Porto di Fermo), Cupra Maritima (Cupra Marittima and Grottammare), Truentum on the Truentinus (Tronto) and finally Castrum Novum and...
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    possibility is that it derived from Castellum Hadrianum (Hadriansburg) after the Roman Emperor Hadrian during whose reign the castrum was built. Another is that...
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    Ancient Roman name for what is now Colchester in Essex, was an important castrum and city in Roman Britain, and the first capital of the province. A temporary...
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    (plural). The Arabic qaṣr (قَصَر) was probably borrowed from the Latin word castrum. Ksour in the Maghreb typically consist of attached houses, often having...
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    overlapping the via sagularis and part of the agger. A smaller fort or castellum (Campulung Muscel II) was about 300m to the south at Biserica Jidovilor...
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    hence the name Castel or Câtel, possibly a corruption of the Roman Castellum or castrum. Broken Roman roof tiles and pottery have been discovered in the...
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  • Vienna Austria 90 AD Biriciana Weißenburg in Bayern Germany 90 AD Cannstatt Castrum Stuttgart Germany 97 AD Colonia Nervia Glevensium Gloucester United Kingdom...
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    settlement. The Emperor Augustus' successors later rebuilt the city as a Roman castrum. Tamuda became later one of the major cities of the Roman province Mauretania...
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    a defensive position. The Romans built here a bath building, known as Castellum aquae, carrying the water through an aqueduct from the Serino river. The...
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  • Castello Castellum Iabar Castellum in Mauretania Castellum in Numidia Castellum Medianum Castellum Minus Castellum Ripae Castellum Tatroportus Castellum Tingitii...
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    Afrorum veterana was found in Neuss and is dated around 100. The 'Nivisium castellum' is also mentioned by Gregory of Tours. Around 575 he wrote Book II of...
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    because under Augustus a Roman castrum was founded near a small Berber village with that name The city constituted of a castrum (fort) and a vicus (small city):...
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    (PDF) (in Hungarian). Budapest: Castrum Bene Egyesület. pp. 55–74. ISBN 978-9638725974. Alice D Mezey (2008). "„Castellum" Bajna. A bajnai kastély a 18...
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    Comes Menendus. Æra 1054. Octavo Idus Septembris venerunt Lormanes ad Castellum Vermudii, quod est in Provincia Bracharensi. Comes tunc ibi erat Alvitus...
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