Noviomagus
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Noviomagus is a superficially Latinized Celtic placename containing the Celtic words noviios "new" (cf. Welsh newydd, Breton nevez) and magos "field", "plain", then "market" '(cf. Old Irish mag "plain"; Old Breton ma, place). It was part of a number of place names in the Roman Empire:

  • Noviomagus Reginorum
    Noviomagus Reginorum
    Noviomagus Reginorum was the Roman town which is today called Chichester, situated in the modern English county of West Sussex. Alternative versions of the name include Noviomagus Regnorum, Regnentium and Regentium..-Development:...

     - Chichester, West Sussex, England
  • Noviomagus (Cantiacorum) - Crayford
    Crayford
    Crayford is a town and electoral ward in the London Borough of Bexley that was an important bridging point in Roman times across the River Cray, a tributary of the River Darent, which is itself a tributary of the River Thames.-History:...

    , Kent, England
  • Noviomagus Lexoviorum - Lisieux
    Lisieux
    Lisieux is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.Lisieux is the capital of the Pays d'Auge area, which is characterised by valleys and hedged farmland...

    , Calvados, France
  • Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum - Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands - the modern name Nijmegen is derived from Noviomagus
  • Noviomagus Veromanduorum - Noyon
    Noyon
    Noyon is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.It lies on the Oise Canal, 100 km north of Paris.-History:...

    , Oise, France - the modern name is derived from Noviomagus
  • Noviomagus Nemetum - Speyer
    Speyer
    Speyer is a city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located beside the river Rhine, Speyer is 25 km south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Founded by the Romans, it is one of Germany's oldest cities...

    , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
  • Noviomagus Trevirorum - Neumagen-Dhron
    Neumagen-Dhron
    Neumagen-Dhron is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Neumagen-Dhron and a state-recognized tourism community...

     near Trier
    Trier
    Trier, historically called in English Treves is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC....

    , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany - the modern name is derived from Noviomagus
  • Noviomagus Tricastinorum (later Augusta Tricastinorum, later yet Colonia Flavia Tricastinorum) - Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux
    Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux
    Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France.-Population:-See also:*Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Cathedral*Tricastin*Communes of the Drôme department-External links:*...

    , Drôme
    Drôme
    Drôme , a department in southeastern France, takes its name from the Drôme River.-History:The French National Constituent Assembly set up Drôme as one of the original 83 departments of France on March 4, 1790, during the French Revolution...

    , France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...


See also

  • Daniel Santbech Noviomagus, a Dutch mathematician and astronomer (died circa 1561) has given his name to the Santbech crater on the Moon
  • Neumagen
    Neumagen
    Neumagen is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.-See also:*List of rivers of Baden-Württemberg...

    , a river in the Black Forest
    Black Forest
    The Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south. The highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 metres ....

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