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    the north of the great road from Saintes via Limoges to Lyon, which crossed the Charente at Montignac. The castrum is in an isolated location on a natural...
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  • Castra (redirect from Castrum)
    Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (pl.: castra) was a military-related term. In Latin usage, the singular form castrum meant 'fort', while the plural...
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    an ancient Celtic oppidum and later a Roman castrum; the site was known in medieval documents as Castrum Bagaudarum, at a time when the marauding Bagaudae...
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    a castle called the Castrum Maris (English: Castle by the Sea; Italian: Castello al Mare). It was rebuilt by the Order of Saint John as a bastioned fort...
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    and rededicated it in 590. Its location, at the south-west angle of the castrum, or old Roman walls, resulted in the cathedral entrance being part of the...
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    rempart méridional du castrum de Tours" [A gate (?) on the southern rampart of the castrum of Tours]. Revue archéologique du Centre de la France (in French)...
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    Guillaume de Montsoreau and his son Guillaume. In 1171, Guillaume's son gave the Turpenay monks the right to build tax-free houses inside the castrum. Gauthier...
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    Orgon (redirect from Castrum de Urgone)
    Orgon (French pronunciation: [ɔʁɡɔ̃]; ancient: Urgonum, or Castrum de Urgone) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte...
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    constructed during the Late Roman Empire. It is commonly referred to as the "castrum enclosure." Only the remaining Gallo-Roman construction in Tours is accessible...
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    Sighișoara (redirect from Castrum Stenarum)
    Šesburχ, or Scheeßprich; Yiddish: שעסבורג, romanized: Shesburg; Latin: Castrum Sex or Saxoburgum) is a municipality on the Târnava Mare River in Mureș...
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    Fernand Benoit, Les Baux, Paris, 1928 (in French) O. Maufras, The castrum of Baux de Provence: History of a medieval fortified site, Provence History,...
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    the Roman "Castrum" had been used. 14 stalls, figuring apostles and prophets, originate from the ancient chapel and are ascribed to Claude de Peney, who...
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    castle, with the stones of the Andone Castrum. In the 12th century, ownership of the castle was disputed between Gerard de Blaye, helped by the lords of Saintonge...
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    churches, including the Basilica of Saint Severinus of Bordeaux and Notre-Dame-de-la-Place, located in the old castrum or Roman fortified town. It appears...
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    The site was fortified early on, and by the 5th century a Gallo-Roman castrum had been established. Theobald I, Count of Blois built the earliest known...
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    Tours Amphitheatre (category Ruins in Centre-Val de Loire)
    de la Gaule - l'Indre-et Loire-37, Paris, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, ISBN 2-87754-002-2, 141 pages Jason Wood (1983), Le castrum de...
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  • 27%) Castro – 102,900 (0.26%) "castle, fort , village". See castro and castrum Suárez – 102,900 (0.26%) Son of Suero or Suaro; unknown origin Ortega –...
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    writs and charters were written at Château Gaillard bearing "apud Bellum Castrum de Rupe" (at the Fair Castle of the Rock). Château Gaillard was ahead of...
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    Al-Bireh (redirect from Castrum Mahomeria)
    Al-Bireh, al-Birah, or el-Bira (Arabic: البيرة; also known historically as Castrum Mahomeria, Magna Mahomeria, Mahomeria Major, Birra, or Beirothah) is a...
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    Barcelona around 290. During the persecution of Diocletian, Severus fled to Castrum Octavianum (Sant Cugat del Vallès). As he crossed the Collserola Mountains...
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    Ename (section Castrum)
    by a walled castrum. A stone church dedicated to Saint Salvator was built for the trade settlement and a larger church dedicated to Saint Laurentius was...
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    of Flanders granted the collegiate a quarter of the former Carolingian castrum, a farm in Flers, and two-thirds of the revenues of the Annapes church;...
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    the Waldensian dialect and means "flat stone, slab, platform". The name Castrum Quilonis, attested from 1195, would, therefore, mean "castle built on a...
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    Martinsicuro (former Roman town of Latin: Truentum or Castrum Truentinum) is a town and comune in province of Teramo, Abruzzo, central Italy. It is located...
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    Dender became part of Flanders. From the 11th century on, the medieval castrum was fortified into a castle stronghold. Because it lay on the trade route...
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    på 'castrum doloris'". nyheder.tv2.dk (in Danish). 19 February 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2018. Jeppesen, Issa (18 February 2018). "DR.dk". Castrum doloris:...
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    in a Latin document from 1094 that uses the name Castro Novo. The term castrum or castro in the 11th century was used to denote a fortified village, rather...
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    Todi Castle (redirect from Castrum Ilionis)
    Castrum Ilionis, home of the Landi family, as well as the "Villa" in which the lord's subordinates live. The Landi also owned the contiguous Villa de...
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    abdicavit et solitudinem recedere maluit. At Castrum Fumorense near Alatri in Lazio, the birth of Saint Peter Celestine, who, when leading the life of...
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    one church called Saint-Sernin de Bensa à Lavelanet. The town of Lavelanet will appear at the foot of the fortified castle or "Castrum" named "Castelsarrasin"...
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