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Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. [1] It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". [2]
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 ...
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Londinium was an ethnically diverse city, ... ("London market"), a settlement to the west, roughly in the modern-day Strand/Aldwych/Covent Garden area. ...
Romano-British Londinium had been abandoned in the late 5th century, although the London Wall remained intact. There was an Anglo-Saxon settlement by the early 7th century, called Lundenwic, about one mile west of Londinium, to the north of the present Strand. Lundenwic came under direct Mercian control in about 670.
A Carausius coin from Londinium mint A medal of Constantius I capturing London (inscribed as lon) in 296 after defeating Allectus. From Beaurains treasure. Londinium was established as a civilian town by the Romans about four years [9] after the invasion of 43 AD. London, like Rome, was founded on the point of the river where it was narrow ...
Ah, Covent Garden.Sure, the performers and pigeons still pervade the Piazza, and you have to navigate the people with maps and backpacks that stop suddenly in the middle of the street, but this ...
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