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Magnae Carvetiorum

Index Magnae Carvetiorum

Magnae, fully Magnae Carvetiorum (Latin for "The Greats of the Carvetii"), was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain. [1]

29 relations: Carlisle, Cumbria, Carvetii, Castra, Civil parish, Common Brittonic, Corbridge, Coria (Corbridge), England, Greenhead, Northumberland, Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall, Kirkby Thore, Latin, Luguvalium, Magnae Carvetiorum, Maiden Way, Milecastle, Nominative case, Northumberland, Notitia Dignitatum, Penrith, Cumbria, Ravenna Cosmography, Roman Britain, Roman Empire, Roman Inscriptions of Britain, Stanegate, Vallum (Hadrian's Wall), Vindolanda, William Hutchinson (topographer).

Carlisle, Cumbria

Carlisle (or from Cumbric: Caer Luel Cathair Luail) is the county town of Cumbria.

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Carvetii

The Carvetii were an Iron Age people and were subsequently identified as a civitas (canton) of Roman Britain living in what is now Cumbria, in North-West England.

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Castra

In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (plural castra) was a building, or plot of land, used as a fortified military camp.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Common Brittonic

Common Brittonic was an ancient Celtic language spoken in Britain.

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Corbridge

Corbridge is a village in Northumberland, England, west of Newcastle and east of Hexham.

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Coria (Corbridge)

Coria was a fort and town south of Hadrian's Wall, in the Roman province of Britannia at a point where a big Roman north–south road (Dere Street) bridged the River Tyne and met another Roman road (Stanegate), which ran east–west between Coria and Luguvalium (the modern Carlisle) in the Solway Plain.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Greenhead, Northumberland

Greenhead is a village in Northumberland, England.

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Hadrian

Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138 AD) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.

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Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall (Vallum Aelium), also called the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian.

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Kirkby Thore

Kirkby Thore is a small village, civil parish and hill in Cumbria, England at.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Luguvalium

Luguvalium was a Roman town in northern Britain in antiquity.

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Magnae Carvetiorum

Magnae, fully Magnae Carvetiorum (Latin for "The Greats of the Carvetii"), was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain.

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Maiden Way

The Maiden Way or Maidenway (Middle English: Maydengathe; Via Puellarum) was a roughly Roman road in northern Britain connecting Bravoniacum (Kirkby Thore) with Magnae (Carvoran).

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Milecastle

A milecastle was a small fort (fortlet), a rectangular fortification built during the period of the Roman Empire.

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Nominative case

The nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb or the predicate noun or predicate adjective, as opposed to its object or other verb arguments.

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Northumberland

Northumberland (abbreviated Northd) is a county in North East England.

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Notitia Dignitatum

The Notitia Dignitatum (Latin for "The List of Offices") is a document of the late Roman Empire that details the administrative organization of the Eastern and Western Empires.

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Penrith, Cumbria

Penrith is a market town and civil parish in the county of Cumbria, England.

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Ravenna Cosmography

The Ravenna Cosmography (Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names covering the world from India to Ireland, compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around 700.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Roman Inscriptions of Britain

Roman Inscriptions of Britain is a 3-volume corpus of inscriptions found in Britain from the Roman period.

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Stanegate

The Stanegate, or "stone road" (Old Norse), was an important Roman road built in what is now northern England.

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Vallum (Hadrian's Wall)

The Vallum is a huge earthwork associated with Hadrian's Wall in England.

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Vindolanda

VindolandaBritish windo- 'fair, white, blessed', landa 'enclosure/meadow/prairie/grassy plain' (the modern Welsh word would be something like gwynlan, and the modern Gaelic word fionnlann). was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England.

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William Hutchinson (topographer)

William Hutchinson (1732–1814) was an English lawyer, antiquary and topographer.

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Carvoran, Magna Carvetiorum, Magnae of the Carvetii, Magnis (Carvoran), Roman Army Museum, Roman army museum.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnae_Carvetiorum

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