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Its name properly refers the Eastern emperor Valens but some also hold it to have honoured Valentinian. [6] Some researchers such as S. H. Rosenbaum, [citation needed] who place Valentia in far northern Britain also believe the name included wordplay with the Latin vallum ("wall"), cf. the island Munitia (wordplay on munitio) of Aethicus Ister's Cosmography.
Scotland during the Roman Empire refers to the protohistorical period during which the Roman Empire interacted within the area of modern Scotland. Despite sporadic attempts at conquest and government between the first and fourth centuries AD, most of modern Scotland, inhabited by the Caledonians and the Maeatae , was not incorporated into the ...
Luguvalium (or Luguvalium Carvetiorum) was an ancient Roman city in northern Britain located within present-day Carlisle, Cumbria, and may have been the capital of the 4th-century province of Valentia. It was the northernmost city of the Roman Empire.
Roman roads and settlements 84 AD Plan showing annexes and "Great Camp" First fort defences Plan; red lines show early defences. Trimontium was a Roman fort complex [1] located at Newstead, near Melrose, in the Scottish Borders, in view of the three Eildon Hills which probably gave its name (Latin: trium montium, three hills).
Roman cavalryman trampling conquered Picts, on a tablet found at Bo'ness dated to c. 142 and now in the National Museum of Scotland. Of the surviving pre-Roman accounts of Scotland, the first written reference to Scotland was the Greek Pytheas of Massalia, who may have circumnavigated the British Isles of Albion and Ierne (Ireland) [28] [29 ...
Scotland during the Roman Empire; A. Architecture of Scotland in the Roman era; Argentocoxos; B. ... Valentia (Roman Britain) Votadini
Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə /; Latin: Calēdonia [kaleːˈdonia]) was the Latin name used by the Roman Empire to refer to the part of Scotland that lies north of the River Forth, which includes most of the land area of Scotland. [1] Today, it is used as a romantic or poetic name for all of Scotland. [2]
383–393) ending the first Valentinian dynasty, were one of the most critical periods in the late Roman Empire, structuring the empire in ways that would have long lasting consequences. [5] The succeeding thirty years (395–425) from the death of Theodosius I to the death of his sons and ascent of Valentinian III ( r.