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Coloniae (Roman)
- Colonia (Roman)In 752 BC, Rome established its first colonies at Antemnae and Crustumerium within the region of Latium. These early settlements served as garrisons for…
- CanterburyCanterbury receives a million visitors a year at its cathedral alone, yet the city itself is home to just over 55,000 people.
- ColchesterColchester sits on a gravel hill in north-eastern Essex, fifty miles from London, and beneath its streets lies a story that stretches back further than…
- YorkYork sits at the meeting point of two rivers, the Ouse and the Foss, in North Yorkshire, and its story stretches back nearly ten thousand years.
- BerytusIn 140 BC, the Phoenician village called Biruta lay in ruins after Diodotus Tryphon destroyed it during a struggle for the Macedonian Seleucid throne.
- TurinTurin sits at the foot of the Alps, on the western bank of the River Po, and it has been the stage for more of Italian history than almost any other city.
- Acre, IsraelThe earliest discovered settlement at Acre dates to around 3000 BC during the Early Bronze Age. This initial community appears to have been abandoned after a…
- TimgadEmperor Trajan established a new colony in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria around 100 AD. He named this settlement Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi to…
- AntiochAntioch was founded on the 22nd of May 300 BC, according to the chronicler John Malalas, at the moment Seleucus I Nicator performed a sacrifice to Zeus on a…
- CamulodunumCamulodunum was Rome's first capital in Britain, a city that burned to the ground in a single night and then came back larger than before.
- NicomediaNicomedia sits beneath the streets of modern İzmit, Turkey, its marble foundations buried under one of the most densely populated cities in the country.
- CosaCosa sits on a hill 113 meters above the Tyrrhenian Sea, a ruined Roman city near what is now Ansedonia in southwestern Tuscany.
- ItalicaItalica was the first Roman city ever built on the soil of Spain, founded in 206 BC by a general named Publius Cornelius Scipio during one of the ancient…