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The same name was used for the River Usk (modern Welsh: Afon Wysg) in southern Wales, causing the settlement there (modern Caerleon) to be distinguished as Isca Augusta, while the Devonian Isca was called Isca Dumnoniorum: Usk of the Dumnonians. A Roman mosaic floor discovered under the ruins of St Catherine's Chapel and Almshouses.
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
The modern name of Exeter is a development of the Old English Escanceaster, [5] ... To distinguish the two, the Romans also referred to Exeter as Isca Dumnoniorum, ...
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 ...
The Brythonic name Isca means "water" and refers to the River Usk. The suffix Augusta appears in the Ravenna Cosmography and was an honorific title taken from the legion stationed there. The place is commonly referred to as Isca Silurum to differentiate it from Isca Dumnoniorum and because it lay in the territory of the Silures tribe.
Isca, any of several places in Roman Britain, derived from a Brythonic word for "flowing water": Isca Dumnoniorum, modern Exeter; Isca Augusta, modern Caerleon; Isca, the River Usk; Isca, a place in Calabria, Italy: Isca sullo Ionio; Isca Marina; Other meanings: Isca, a village in Meteș Commune, Alba County, Romania
Latin name Modern-day Modern country 25 BC: Augusta Praetoria Salassorum: Aosta: Italy ... Isca Dumnoniorum: Exeter: United Kingdom 55 AD: Blestium: Monmouth: United ...
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