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Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place — for example, there were several Roman cities whose names began with Colonia and then a more descriptive term. During the Middle Ages, these were often shortened to just Colonia. One of these, Colonia Agrippinensis, retains the name today in the form of Cologne (from French, German Köln).
The Roman campaigns of conquest in Wales are documented in surviving ancient sources, which record in particular the resistance and ultimate conquest of two of the five native tribes, the Silures of the south east, and the Ordovices of central and northern Wales. Aside from the many Roman-related discoveries at sites along the southern coast ...
A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain. [1] This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Britain. The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names.
Wales Island is an island on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, situated east of the Dixon Entrance at the entrance to Portland Inlet. 35 square miles (91 km 2 ) in area, Wales Island is 30 miles (48 km) north of the port city of Prince Rupert , and 55 miles (89 km) south-east of Ketchikan, Alaska .
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The Dixon Entrance lies between Clarence Strait in the Alexander Archipelago in Alaska to the north, and Hecate Strait and the islands known as Haida Gwaii [3] (the Queen Charlotte Islands) in British Columbia, to the south. Prince of Wales Island is the largest of the Alaskan islands on the north side of the entrance; the Kaigani Haida occupy ...
Tongass Passage (Tlingit: Séet Tlèin [1]) is a strait on the Canada–United States border between Alaska and British Columbia, located on the southwest side of Wales Island. Wales Island, and Pearse Island, to its northeast, were claimed by the United States prior to the settlement of the Alaska boundary dispute in 1903. Prior to that time ...
This list includes the Roman names of countries, or significant regions, known to the Roman Empire. Latin Name English Name Achaea [1] Greece: ... Wales: Cilicia: Turkey