- 51°52′01″N 2°14′56″W / 51.867°N 2.249°W / 51.867; -2.249
Glevum (or, more formally,
Colonia Nervia Glevensium, or
occasionally Glouvia) was originally...
-
became an
important city and
colony in AD 97,
under Emperor Nerva as
Colonia Glevum Nervensis. It was
granted its
first charter in 1155 by Henry II. In 1216...
- and one Cuthwine,
resulting in the
capture of the Romano-British
towns of
Glevum (Gloucester),
Corinium Dobunnorum (Cirencester), and
Aquae Sulis (Bath)...
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until AD 60. From 55 it was
based at
Exeter and from 66 it was
possibly at
Glevum.
During the
uprising of
queen Boudica, when its
praefectus castrorum[broken...
-
Roman road in Britain. It
linked Glevum (Gloucester) and
Corinium (Cirencester) to
Calleva (Silchester). At
Glevum it
connected to the road to Isca (Caerleon)...
- more p****ive
Viroconium (Wroxeter). It may also have
occupied Gloucester (
Glevum) at this time. In the year of the four emperors, the
legion sided with Vitellius...
- (Durnovaria) C
Dover (Portus Dubris)
Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) C
Gloucester (
Glevum) C
Great Chesterford (the name of this
vicus is unknown)
Ilchester (Lindinis)...
-
comes from
Glevum, the
Roman name for what is now Gloucester, via a
Latin name *Glevenses ('people of
Glevum') or *Glevensis ('person from
Glevum'). Thus...
- then took a job
modelling for a Gloucester-based
double glazing company,
Glevum,
dressed only in lingerie. As part of an
advertising campaign called "class...
- great-grandfather Gloui, who is
probably just an
eponym which ****ociates
Vortigern with
Glevum, the
civitas of Gloucester. The
story of why
Vortigern granted land in Britain...
