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Colchester (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 51 53 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.8833 decimal degrees |
Long: 000 54 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 0.9000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Britain's oldest recorded town and Britain's first Roman colony founded by Claudius ca. 43; Roman High Street; burned by Inceni Queen Boudicca in 60; legendary birthplace of Constantine; remains include castle built by William I and two 11th-century abbeys; University of Essex; from the fortified Iron Age settlement here Cunobelin (Shakespeare's Cymbeline) ruled the whole of southwestern Britain; cloth center 14th-17th centuries; famous for its oysters. |
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Colchester (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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Camulodunu (H,O)
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Camulodunum (H,O)
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............ | ancient |
Colcestra (H,O)
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Colecastro (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
Colecestra (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
Colneceaste (H,O)
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Colneceaster (H,O)
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Colonia Camulodunum (H,O)
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Colonia Claudia Victricensis (H,O)
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Colonia Victucensis (H,O)
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Colonia Victucensis Camalodunum (H,O)
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Essex (county) (P) |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled as early as Bronze Age |
city (C) |
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manufacturing center (C) |
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trade center (C) |
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industrial center (C) |
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capital (H) |
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of Cunobelin, King of Trinobantes tribe, from 40 until captured by Claudius ca. 44 |
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