Curated category
Populated places established in the 1st century
- ManchesterIn 79 AD, Roman general Agricola ordered the construction of a fort named Mamucium on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell.
- FrankfurtIn 794, a document first mentioned the settlement known as Franconofurd. This name meant ford of the Franks on the river Main.
- GloucesterIn the year 48, Roman soldiers established a military fort at Glevum on an important crossing of the River Severn. This location sat near the Fosse Way…
- YorkIn AD 71, the Ninth Legion conquered the Brigantes and constructed a wooden military fortress on flat ground above the River Ouse.
- LondiniumA timber drain discovered at Number 1 Poultry dates to the year 47 AD, marking the earliest securely-dated structure in what would become Londinium.
- HaifaTell Abu Hawam emerged as a small port city during the Late Bronze Age, around the 14th century BCE. Archaeologists have uncovered jars and remains from Iron…
- LondonIn 1993, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a Bronze Age bridge on the south River Thames foreshore, upstream from Vauxhall Bridge.