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Luguvalium (or Luguvalium Carvetiorum) was an ancient Roman city in northern Britain located within present-day Carlisle, Cumbria, and may have been the capital of the 4th-century province of Valentia. It was the northernmost city of the Roman Empire.
The Roman name for Carlisle was Luguvalio which, by 1106, had been changed to Carleol, which is the origin of the modern day 'Carlisle'. This is probably derived from an earlier Welsh word Caer or Cair, meaning 'fort, fortress'.
Carlisle (/ kɑːrˈlaɪl / kar-LYLE, locally / ˈkɑːrlaɪl / KAR-lyle; [ 1 ] from Cumbric: Caer Luel[ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ]) is a cathedral city in the ceremonial county of Cumbria in England. It is the administrative centre of Cumberland Council which covers an area similar to the historic county of Cumberland.
Carlisle, urban area (from 2011 built-up area) and city (district), administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Cumberland, northwestern England, on the Scottish border. In the Roman period a civilian settlement, Luguvallium (later the town of Carlisle), grew up on the south bank of the.
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72 Roman City. A large Roman fort is established on the site of the later castle. This becomes the nucleus for a prosperous town called Luguvalium, occupied by the Romans until the end of the 4th century
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Mar 14, 2021 · Carlisle began as a Roman town called Luguvalium. The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and about 78 AD the governor, Agricola, built a wooden fort on the site of Carlisle. Soon a civilian settlement grew up nearby.
The largest city in England by area, Carlisle lies in the far northern corner of England, near the Scottish border, and is the urban capital of Cumbria and the beating heart of the Borderlands. Explore dungeons and labyrinths at Carlisle’s medieval castle, 900 -year-old cathedral and Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life, all housed within the ...
