Hadrians Wall also called the Roman Wall Picts Wall was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian.

Roman name for britain. Camulodunum or modern day Colchester was the home of the first permanent Roman fortress to be built in Britain in AD 43. The south was to be called Britannia Superior superior being in reference to the fact that it was closer to Rome with the north being named Britannia Inferior. Moreover one of the principal authorities Ptolemy wrote in Greek so names that.

It was used as a personal name by several later emperors notably by Constantine. The Romans remained in Britain from 43 AD to 410 AD. The Roman road known as the Fosse Way linked the south-west with Lincoln having demarcated a temporary frontier in the late AD 40s when the Roman army paused before pushing further north and.

The Romans were cross with Britain for helping the Gauls now called the French fight against the Roman general Julius Caesar. For a more complete list including later Latin names see List of Latin place names in Britain. Roman family name meaning golden or yellow-haired from Latin flavus yellow golden.

More often than not these last names Congnomen were descriptive referring to a character trait or physical descriptor of a person. A database of the Celtic personal names of Roman Britain CPNRB TS 9 p. Roman Britain Latin Britannia area of the island of Great Britain that was under Roman rule from the conquest of Claudius in 43 ce to the withdrawal of imperial authority by Honorius in 410 ce.

Eventually a system was created that linked the south coast ports to Hadrians Wall and even reached into what is now Scotland. Paul Russell Alex Mullen. How long did the Romans stay in Britain.

It ran from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea and was the northern limit of the Roman Empire. This list includes only names documented from Roman times. Albion 65-8 BC Roman poet and satirist.