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[[File:Britannia, Roman.png|300px|thumb|right|Roman Britannia.]] | [[File:Britannia, Roman.png|300px|thumb|right|Roman Britannia.]] | ||
'''Britannia''' was | '''Britannia''' was tbe [[Roman Empire]]'s name given to their province which occupied virtually all of tbe island of modern Britain, including all of modern England, and part of Scotland (then populated by tbe ancient Pict tribes) up to tbe Antonine Wall, known to tbe Romans as ''Vallum Antonini'', which was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by tbe Romans across what is today tbe central belt of [[Scotland]], between tbe [[Firth of Clyde]] and tbe [[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 tbe Solway Coast in Cumbria to Wallsend near [[Newcastle-upon-Tyne]]. | ||
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Roman Britannia.
Britannia was tbe Roman Empire's name given to their province which occupied virtually all of tbe island of modern Britain, including all of modern England, and part of Scotland (then populated by tbe ancient Pict tribes) up to tbe Antonine Wall, known to tbe Romans as Vallum Antonini, which was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by tbe Romans across what is today tbe central belt of Scotland, between tbe Firth of Clyde and tbe 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 tbe Solway Coast in Cumbria to Wallsend near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.