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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.
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 ...
Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. [1]
London's first defensive wall was built by the Romans around 200 AD. This was around 80 years after the construction of the city's fort (whose north and west walls were thickened and doubled in height to form part of the new city wall), and 150 years after the city was founded as Londinium.
London Wall, built around Londinium between 190 and 225, probably between 200 and 220; Roman walls of Lugo, built between 263 and 276 AD to defend the Roman town of Lucus Augusti (in what is now Spain) Aurelian Walls, the later wall of Rome, built in the late 3rd century AD
A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed in south-east London in a “remarkable” archaeological discovery.. The 2,000-year-old road, known as Watling Street ...
The six Roman gates of London and the one mediaeval gate (Moorgate) of the City of London, together with London Wall. Wikimedia Commons has media related to London Wall and its gates . Pages in category "London Wall and its gates"
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