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The name Isca Dumnoniorum is a Latinization of a native Brittonic name describing flowing water, in reference to the River Exe.More exactly, the name seems to have originally meant "full of fish" (cf. Welsh pysg, pl. "fish"), [2] although it came to be a simple synonym for water (cf. Scottish whisky). [3]
The Latin name for Exeter is Isca Dumnoniorum ("Water of the Dumnonii"). This oppidum (a Latin term meaning an important town) on the banks of River Exe certainly existed prior to the foundation of the Roman city in about AD 50. Isca is derived from the Brythonic word for flowing water, which was
Around 55 CE, the Romans established a legionary fortress at Isca Dumnoniorum, modern Exeter, but west of Exeter the area remained largely un-Romanised. [12] Most of Dumnonia is notable for its lack of a villa system [ a ] – though there were substantial numbers south of Bath and around Ilchester –, and for its many settlements that have ...
Until the Modern Era, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking.During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde.
Isca Dumnoniorum (Roman Exeter). Parts of city wall still exist (overlaid with medieval construction) Moridunum, Axminster; Pomeroy Wood; Woodbury Farm Roman Fort ...
Roman Britain military infrastructure 68 AD. The Fosse Way was a Roman road built in Britain during the first and second centuries AD that linked Isca Dumnoniorum in the southwest and Lindum Colonia to the northeast, via Lindinis (), Aquae Sulis (), Corinium (Cirencester), and Ratae Corieltauvorum ().
This early leader of RI's Appalachian Mountain Club helped clear and maintain many of the state's most popular trails. This one bears his name. Exeter trail is the legacy of a beloved RI outdoorsman.
Exeter originated as a Roman civitas called Isca Dumnoniorum, which was provided with town walls in about 200 AD. It later became an Anglo-Saxon burh or fortified settlement and the Roman walls were said to have been repaired and improved by King Æthelstan in the 10th century. [1] King William I depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.