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[[File:Britannia, Roman. | [[File:Britannia, Roman.png|300px|thumb|right|Roman Britannia.]] | ||
'''Britannia''' was the [[Roman Empire]]'s name given to their province which occupied virtually all of the island of modern Britain, including all of modern England, and part of Scotland (then populated by the ancient Pict tribes) up to the Antonine Wall, known to the Romans as ''Vallum Antonini'', which was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is today the central belt of [[Scotland]], between the [[Firth of Clyde]] and the [[Firth of Forth]]. It was subsequently replaced by [the Emperor] Hadrian's Wall some 100 or so miles south, which wall stretched 80 miles from the Solway Coast in Cumbria to Wallsend near [[Newcastle-upon-Tyne]]. | '''Britannia''' was the [[Roman Empire]]'s name given to their province which occupied virtually all of the island of modern Britain, including all of modern England, and part of Scotland (then populated by the ancient Pict tribes) up to the Antonine Wall, known to the Romans as ''Vallum Antonini'', which was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is today the central belt of [[Scotland]], between the [[Firth of Clyde]] and the [[Firth of Forth]]. It was subsequently replaced by [the Emperor] Hadrian's Wall some 100 or so miles south, which wall stretched 80 miles from the Solway Coast in Cumbria to Wallsend near [[Newcastle-upon-Tyne]]. | ||
Revision as of 13:52, 22 February 2024
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Roman Britannia.
Britannia was the Roman Empire's name given to their province which occupied virtually all of the island of modern Britain, including all of modern England, and part of Scotland (then populated by the ancient Pict tribes) up to the Antonine Wall, known to the Romans as Vallum Antonini, which was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is today the central belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. It was subsequently replaced by [the Emperor] Hadrian's Wall some 100 or so miles south, which wall stretched 80 miles from the Solway Coast in Cumbria to Wallsend near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.