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Roman Wales, c. 48 — c. 395: Military Forts, Fortlets, and Roads. The Roman era in the area of modern Wales began in 48 AD, with a military invasion by the imperial governor of Roman Britain. The conquest was completed by 78 AD, and Roman rule endured until the region was abandoned in 383 AD. [1]
Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman ... A 1486 woodcut copy of Ptolemy's 2nd-century map of Roman Britain. ... Prehistoric Britain; Wales in the ...
The Roman province of Britannia in 410. During the Roman occupation of Britain, the area of present-day England and Wales was administered as a single unit, except for the land to the north of Hadrian's Wall – though the Roman-occupied area varied in extent, and for a time extended to the Antonine/Severan Wall.
Map of the Roman invasion of Wales. By AD 47, Rome had invaded and conquered all of southernmost and southeastern Britain under the first Roman governor of Britain. As part of the Roman conquest of Britain, a series of campaigns to conquer Wales was launched by his successor in 48 and would continue intermittently under successive governors ...
Map of Britannia Superior in 260 AD Major cities of Britannia Superior in the 2nd century Britannia Superior within the Roman Empire. Britannia Superior (Latin for "Upper Britain") was a province of Roman Britain created after the civil war between Septimius Severus and Clodius Albinus.
The approximate limit of coin-minting tribes in south Britain, and the limits of the campaigns of Claudius and Aulus Plautius.. Before and during the Roman occupation of Britain, all the native inhabitants of the island (other than the Pictish/Caledonian tribes of what is now northern Scotland—and also excepting the Lloegyr of greater south-east Britain [dubious – discuss]) spoke Brythonic ...
Following the Roman conquest of Britain, it was administered as a single province from Camulodunum and then Londinium until the Severan Reforms following the revolt of its governor Clodius Albinus. These divided the territory into Britannia Superior and Britannia Inferior, whose respective capitals were at Londinium and Eboracum.
At least 26 of the current 63 cities in England and Wales were fortified civitates during the Roman era, the most famous being Camulodunum, modern day Colchester, the first capital of the Roman province of Britannia, and Londinium, modern day London, the later capital of the province and current capital of both England and the United Kingdom today.