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This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Britain. The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names.
Coordinates: 47°13′21″N 2°04′10″E. Vierzon (French pronunciation: [vjɛʁzɔ̃]) is a commune in the Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France. Geography. A medium-sized town by the banks of the river Cher with some light industry and an area of forestry and farming to the north.
It lists cities established and built by the ancient Romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. Many Roman colonies in antiquity rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation hubs and capitals of global empires.
Vierzon, city, Cher département, Centre région, central France. It lies along the Canal du Berry, at the confluence of the Cher and Yèvre rivers, northwest of Bourges. The city grew from a rail and industrial complex formed in 1938 from several small communes (Vierzon-Ville, Vierzon-Village, Vierzon-Forges, and Vierzon-Bourgneuf).
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Jun 26, 2020 · Roman place names in Britain, with their modern equivalents - and a list of more than 150 Roman sites in England, Scotland and Wales.
By its romantic name, by the soft crunch of the wood in its old-fashioned fireplace, the place seems to be taken from an epic novel or a saga of A. Dumas. In the heart of Sologne, an hour and a half from Paris, the Auberge du Cheval Blanc…
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Today Vierzon is a lively city of 30,000 inh abitants, with its abundance of game from the forests in the Sologne and fish from the many rivers – not forgetting the numerous wines from the surrounding vinyards (Quincy, Reuilly, etc).
