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Most of the Iberian Peninsula had a similar Celtic language in pre-Roman times.
The Walters Art Museum. Dating back to pre-Roman times, the town of Pavia, then known as Ticinum, was a municipality and an important military site ( a castrum ) under the Roman Empire.
Other scholars, like Constantino Cabal, highlighted the fact that several Galician places, such as Pico Sacro, Pedra da Barca ( Muxía ) or San Andrés de Teixido, were already draws for pagan pilgrimage in pre-Roman times.
The Phoenicians named the river Baits, later Betis ( or Baetis ) from pre-Roman times to the Al-Andalus period, giving its name to the Hispania Baetica Roman province.
This fact shows that the main street of the town was perfectly oriented, and that before the Via Appia was constructed, i. e. in all probability in pre-Roman times.
In pre-Roman times, the inhabitants of Gascony were the Aquitanians ( Latin: Aquitani ), who spoke a language related to modern Basque.
In pre-Roman times the river's name was " Arar ", a doubling of the Indo-European root ar ( water ).
The road dates back to pre-Roman times and is part of the Roman road known as Watling Street.
This piece of land later became an Anglo-Saxon burial ground, and most likely was previously the location of a Celtic Temple site, in far off times, pre-Roman Conquest.
Although Roman and even pre-Roman finds have been made in and around St Neots, there was no significant settlement until Saxon times.
Although some traces of pre-Roman activity have been found on the territory of Sint-Niklaas, the regional centre during Roman times was neighbouring Waasmunster, better located on the river Durme.
It seems certain that this name root goes back to pre-Roman times and is similar to the original Brythonic name for the river, and perhaps the settlement.
The radish ( Raphanus sativus ) is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe, in pre-Roman times.
Old Shoreham dates back to pre-Roman times.
Some three kilometres ( 1. 9 miles ) north-west of Podgorica lie the ruins of Doclea, a town known in Greek, pre-Roman and Roman times.
The area occupied by the town has been inhabited since pre-Roman times.
In pre-Roman times it was known as Sadacia or Sidacia, while the current name derives from the Latin Arenetum (" Place of sand "); the Romans, who arrived here in the 2nd century BC replacing the Celtiberians, built here a fortification to defend the hill, which commanded an important communication hub.
The main thoroughfare in Leytonstone, High Road Leytonstone, which runs the length of Leytonstone to Stratford is an ancient pathway dating to pre-Roman times.
The tria nomina, consisting of praenomen, nomen, and cognomen, which is today regarded as a distinguishing feature of Roman culture, first developed and spread throughout Italy in pre-Roman times.
The word " Ries " is not a German word ; it is believed that the term is derived from Raetia, since the tribe of Raetians lived in the area in pre-Roman times.
There is evidence of an Iron Age hill fort and prehistoric barrows and field systems, and a pagan shrine at dating from pre-Roman times which was re-established as a Romano-Celtic style temple in the mid-4th century and probably succeeded by a small late-4th century Christian oratory.
The harbour has a long history of human settlement stretching to pre-Roman times.
In pre-Roman times the Dumnonii had mostly a subsistence economy with no dominant elites, and many individual farms.
In pre-Roman times, the Chiltern ridge provided a relatively safe and easily negotiable route across southern Iron Age England, thus the Icknield Way ( one of England's ancient prehistoric trackways ) follows the line of the hills.
The site of Carisbrooke Castle may have been occupied in pre-Roman times.

pre-Roman and Cornwall
The history of Cornwall begins with the pre-Roman inhabitants, including speakers of a Celtic language that would develop into Brythonic and Cornish.

pre-Roman and was
Lupercalia was a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility.
One argues that in the 17th and 18th centuries minestrone emerged as a soup using exclusively fresh vegetables and was made for its own sake ( meaning it no longer relied on left-overs ), while the other school of thought argues that the dish had always been prepared exclusively with fresh vegetables for its own sake since the pre-Roman " pulte ", but the name minestrone lost its meaning of being made with left-overs.
It was established by their leader Tasciovanus and in this pre-Roman form, was among the first places in Britain recorded by name.
During the time of the Roman Empire, the territory of the province was inhabited by the Vascones, a pre-Roman tribe who populated the southern slopes of the Pyrenees.
The region around the town was probably settled by the Illyrians and Celts in the pre-Roman era.
Like the rest of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula, it was colonized by Ancient Greeks and Carthaginians and participated in the pre-Roman Iberian culture.
Endovelicus ( also Endouellicus, Endovélico in Portuguese ), was an Iron Age god of public health and safety, worshipped in pre-Roman and Roman Lusitania and Gallaecia.
Quiritis was a Sabine ( pre-Roman ) goddess of motherhood.
The germ for Frazer's thesis was the pre-Roman priest-king at the fane of Nemi, who was murdered ritually by his successor:
The site of the arx of the ancient town was probably on the hill on which lies the contemporary Villa Spada, though no traces of early buildings or defences are to be seen ; pre-Roman tombs are in the cliffs to the north.
In the pre-Roman age Sorrento was influenced by the Greek civilization: this can be seen in its plant and in the presence of the Athenaion, a great sanctuary, also, according to the legend, founded by Ulysses and originally devoted to the cult of the Sirens, whence Sorrento's name.
There are counter arguments that the word " Aduatuca " was probably a general word for a fort in this region, meaning that there might have been more places with the same name, and that Tongeren shows no signs of pre-Roman occupation, nor the hilly terrain described by Caesar.
In 1194 there is a reference to the town as being called Nametwihc, which would indicate it was once the site of a pre-Roman Celtic nemeton or sacred grove.
There may have been a pre-Roman coin mint here, since the largest hoard of coin pellet moulds ever found in Europe was excavated here.

pre-Roman and part
The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain's native cultural and historical knowledge of Boudica's rebellion, with anything else of pre-Roman occupation, is solely due to the deliberate erasure of indigenous culture with the subsequently revised public image transformed from the propaganda writings of Romans.
This was part of a pre-Roman route that followed the modern Oxford Street, Old Street, through Bethnal Green to Old Ford and thence across a causeway through the marshes, known as Wanstead Slip ( now in Leyton ).
Settled in prehistoric times, the central-eastern European land that is now the southeastern part of Poland and the western part of Ukraine was overrun in pre-Roman times by various tribes, including the Celts, Goths, and Vandals ( Przeworsk culture ).
The parish church, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, stands separate from the rest of the village ; this is a common occurrence in places in this part of the country that had some standing in the pre-Roman Celtic period.
The area upon which Dolgellau stands was, in the pre-Roman Celtic period, part of the tribal lands of the Ordovices, who were conquered by the Romans in AD 77 – 78.
The Brigantes were a Celtic tribe who in pre-Roman times controlled the largest section of what would become Northern England, and a significant part of the Midlands.
Note that Joan Corominas does not consider naba as clearly Basque in origin, but as part of a wider pre-Roman substrate.
The kingdom of Pamplona and then Navarre formed part of the traditional territory of the Vascones, a pre-Roman tribe who occupied the southern slope of the western Pyrenees and part of the shore of the Bay of Biscay.
The ford originally lay on the route of a pre-Roman trackway at Old Ford about 600 metres to the north, but when the Romans decided on Colchester as their initial capital for their occupation, the road was upgraded to run from the area of London Bridge, as one of the first paved Roman roads in Britain .< ref >< cite >' Bethnal Green: Communications ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green ( 1998 ), pp. 88-90 accessed: 15 November 2006 </ ref > The ' paved way ' is likely to refer to the presence of a stone causeway across the marshes, which formed a part of the crossing.
The ford at Old Ford is of pre-Roman origin, part of a route from London to Essex which crossed Bethnal Green.
The analysis made by University of Lund, Department of Quaternary Geology, on asbestos pottery was quite unexpected, since this part of Northern Europe, usually considered to be a step behind the rest of Europe, actually introduced iron production in the pre-Roman Iron Age.
The Cynetes or Conii were one of the pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, living in today's Algarve and Low Alentejo regions of southern Portugal before the 6th century BCE ( in what was to become the southern part of the Roman province of Lusitania ).
During a large part of the year they used the acorn as a staple food source, drying and powdering it and using the flour for a type of easily preserved bread ; from their few sown fields during the pre-Roman period, they harvested barley from which they produced beer ( Zythos ), as well as wheat and flax.

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