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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]
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.
The Roman name of the town of Exeter, Isca Dumnoniorum ("Isca of the Dumnonii"), contains the root *iska-"water" for "Water of the Dumnonii". The Latin name suggests that the city was already an oppidum, or walled town, on the banks on the River Exe before the foundation of the Roman city, in about AD 50.
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 ...
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 ().
Isca Dumnoniorum (Roman Exeter). Parts of city wall still exist (overlaid with medieval construction) Moridunum, Axminster; Pomeroy Wood; Woodbury Farm Roman Fort ...
Isca Dumnoniorum; T. Tintagel Castle This page was last edited on 5 September 2021, at 06:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Map of the world in 250 AD. Map of the world in 300 AD. Name Capital(s) State type Existed ... Isca Dumnoniorum: Dukedom/principality: 290 – 875 AD: Europe: British ...