Curated playlist
Coloniae (Roman)
- Colonia (Roman)Rome solved its army problem by planting its own citizens in conquered land. That outpost was called a colonia.
- CanterburyCanterbury has two train stations with no direct connection between them. Rival railway companies built them.
- ColchesterColchester only became an official city in 2022. Its Roman walls had stood for nearly two thousand years.
- YorkVikings attacked York on All Saints' Day in 866, when its leaders were gathered in the cathedral.
- BerytusBerytus, the Roman city under modern Beirut, was called the Mother of Laws.
- TurinTurin drove Italian unification, then lost the capital twice. It went to Florence in 1865, then Rome by 1870.
- Acre, IsraelIn 1799, Napoleon besieged Acre for two months and failed to take it.
- TimgadEmperor Trajan founded Timgad in the year 100 AD as a Roman bastion against the Berbers.
- AntiochAntioch, once the Roman Empire's third-largest city, now lies buried metres deep.
- CamulodunumCamulodunum, Rome's first capital in Britain, burned in one night and came back larger. It survives today as Colchester.
- NicomediaNicomedia began as a Greek colony named for a lobster. It later became an eastern capital of Rome.
- CosaIn AD 417, a traveler found the Roman city of Cosa deserted, apparently by mice. It had once been a busy port.
- ItalicaTwo Roman emperors, Trajan and Hadrian, were born in Italica, a city in Spain. Scipio founded it in 206 BC for veterans.