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Londinium, also known as Roman London, was the capital of Roman Britain during most of the period of Roman rule. Most twenty-first century historians think that it was originally a settlement established shortly after the Claudian invasion of Britain, on the current site of the City of London around 47–50 AD, [4] [5] [3] but some defend an older view that the city originated in a defensive ...
Londinium in the year 400 showing the Roman wall. The London Wall is a defensive wall first built by the Romans around the strategically important port town of Londinium in c. AD 200, [2] as well as the name of a modern street in the City of London, England.
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At least 26 of the current 63 cities in England and Wales were fortified civitates during the Roman era, the most famous being Camulodunum, modern day Colchester, the first capital of the Roman province of Britannia, and Londinium, modern day London, the later capital of the province and current capital of both England and the United Kingdom today.
Stane Street is the modern name of the 91 km-long (57 mi) Roman road in southern England that linked Londinium (London) to Noviomagus Reginorum ().The exact date of construction is uncertain; however, on the basis of archaeological artefacts discovered along the route, it was in use by 70 AD and may have been built in the first decade of the Roman occupation of Britain (as early as 43–53 AD).
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Although Leadenhall Street is within the walls of Roman Londinium, and a map published in 1897 showed it as a Roman street, [3] this remains speculative. The basilica, the largest building in Londinium, extended beneath the western end of Leadenhall Street. [4]
A map of major 2nd-century Roman roads, showing the importance of Calleva as a crossroads and also point of trifurcation of the routes leading to Glevum (Gloucester), South Wales and the South West Peninsula from Londinium (London) Unusually for an Iron Age tribal town in Britain, its exact site was reused for the Roman town. [1]