Städte, die die Römer außerhalb Italiens gründeten
Von vladgrinch
Städte, die die Römer außerhalb Italiens gründeten
Von vladgrinch
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All the missing ones must be due to where is the boundary between city and town.
The Romans were relentless city-builders, and wherever the legions settled a town often followed. A striking number of Europe’s capitals began this way. London started life as Londinium, Paris as Lutetia, Vienna as Vindobona and Cologne as Colonia. This map plots every foundation outside Italy itself, from the damp frontier forts of northern Britain down through Gaul and Iberia to the edges of the Balkans and North Africa.
Fun fact: English towns ending in -chester, -caster or -cester, such as Manchester, Lancaster and Gloucester, all take their name from castra, the Latin word for a military camp.
Any source that comes with this?
Shouldn’t there be more in the East?
They didn’t found nothing in Romania, just renamed.
Slovenia also has Poetovio (now Ptuj) and Celeia (now Celje), and a bunch of other smaller towns.
Or within the roman empire.
The Romans never founded any cities in Scotland.
There’s definitely a lot missing
Adding rivers to it would show things even more clearly (for example the Rhine)
This map showing actual Italy borders is nonsense
So the Romans founded more cities in Britain than in Iberia?
This is incorrect. The Romans founded a bunnch of cities on current Bulgarian teritorry, this map is shit
Why so few in Gaul?
Constantinople was founded by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great in 324 CE on the site of an older city named Byzantium. He rebuilt the location to serve as the new capital of the Roman Empire.
Most of the data points in this map are within Italy. Downvoting for misleading title
Roman Soldier: Sir, there is an Germanic area we ca……
General: is it on the Rhine?
Soldier: uh no…
General: keep moving!
It makes no sense; there should be many more outside of Italy and many fewer inside
Falta Pollentia, en Mallorca.
[Wikipedia Pollentia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollentia_(Mallorca))
Constantinople?
Eh, what have they ever done for us??
Missing out a city in south west France where my aunt and grandma lives, called Dax. Built by the Romans for the thermal baths that existed there. The city was founded around a hot spring called La Néhe.
Only one city in Africa?
Was Britain back then so much of a swamp it didnt even have towns?
I love how this shows you where the rhine runs.
Surprised they never founded anything in Corsica. Was it already completely populated by the time the Roman’s arrived?
This is bullshit.
Romans founded a lot of cities in current day Bulgaria, for example, there is none of your map. Are you ok?
And then there’s a fair few in Italy the [Greeks found](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8wi4zq/map_of_cities_founded_by_greeks_outside_of_greece/)
It should be a lot more.