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Offline skiguy

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So if you ever want to know the Roman names of British cities
« on: April 11, 2012, 06:57:27 AM »
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Re: So if you ever want to know the Roman names of British cities
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2012, 10:25:50 PM »
Nice - "Londinium - The Town of Lugh".

That's so neat to see how the towns form such nice dotted lines through Britain. :)
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Re: So if you ever want to know the Roman names of British cities
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Re: So if you ever want to know the Roman names of British cities
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2012, 03:45:35 AM »
A fun exercise is trying to determine what the current names of old German towns in the east are.  The Czechs and Poles have renamed just about all of them.
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