On hearing the news of the revolt, Suetonius hurried to Londinium ( London ), the twenty-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels ' next target.

Concluding that he did not have the numbers to defend the settlement, Suetonius evacuated and abandoned it — Londinium was burnt to the ground, as was Verulamium ( St Albans ).

Londinium was a relatively new settlement, founded after the conquest of 43AD, but it had grown to be a thriving commercial centre with a population of travellers, traders, and, probably, Roman officials.

Suetonius, however, with wonderful resolution, marched amidst a hostile population to Londinium, which, though undistinguished by the name of a colony, was much frequented by a number of merchants and trading vessels.

Camulodunum was burned to the ground, as well as Londinium and Verulamium, there is some archaeological evidence that the same happened at Winchester as well, and the Second Legion Augusta, stationed at Exeter, refused to move for fear of revolt among the locals there as well.

It was situated in an area near to several other villas, and was close to Watling Street, a Roman road by which travellers could move to and from Londinium to Durobrivae, Durovernum Cantiacorum, and the major Roman port of Rutupiæ ( i. e., London, Rochester, Canterbury, and Richborough, respectively ).

Soon after this invasion the first Staines Bridge was constructed to provide an important Thames crossing point on main road from Londinium ( London ) to Calleva Atrebatum, near the present-day village of Silchester.

Many of the current cities around Europe began as Roman colonies, such as the German city Köln ( Cologne ), which was originally called Colonia Claudia by the Romans ; and the British capital city of London which the Romans founded as Londinium.

Londinium was abandoned at the end of the Roman occupation in the early fifth century and both the city and its bridge collapsed in decay.

The street in question, the London to Brighton Way, was the Roman road from the capital Londinium to the coast near Portslade.

In Roman times, Enfield was connected to Londinium by Ermine Street, the great Roman road which stretched all the way up to York.

The Romans built a road, which was later named Stane Street by the English, from London ( Londinium ) to Chichester ( Noviomagus Regnorum ), and which passed through Tooting.

The area had been settled in Roman times, and a camp here, known as The Brill was erroneously attributed to Julius Caesar, who never visited Londinium.

The bridge was probably destroyed along with the town in the Boudican revolt ( 60 AD ), but both were rebuilt and Londinium became the administrative and mercantile capital of Roman Britain.

With the end of Roman rule in Britain in the early 5th century, Londinium was gradually abandoned and the bridge fell into disrepair.

The fortress was 20 % larger than other fortresses in Britannia built around the same time at York ( Eboracum ) and Caerleon ( Isca Augusta ); this has led to the suggestion that the fortress, rather than London ( Londinium ), was intended to become the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Superior.

The area to the north of the Strand was long thought to have remained as unsettled fields until the 16th century, but theories by Alan Vince and Martin Biddle that there had been an Anglo-Saxon settlement to the west of the old Roman town of Londinium were borne out by excavations in 1985 and 2005.

Its position on the Londinium – Camulodonum Roman road ( the modern A12 ) ensured the early prosperity of Chelmsford ; in the first decade of the 12th century its population had grown to several hundred, which was large for its time.

The town was given the name of Caesaromagus ( the market place of Caesar ), although the reason for it being given the great honour of bearing the Imperial prefix is now unclear – possibly as a failed ' planned town ' provincial capital to replace Londinium or Camulodunum.

Londinium was established as a town by the Romans after the invasion of 43 led by the Roman Emperor Claudius.

Archaeologists now believe that Londinium was founded as a civilian settlement or civitas by 50.

Suetonius brought Mona to terms and marched along the Roman road of Watling Street to Londinium ( London ), the rebels ' next target, but judged he did not have the numbers to defend the city and ordered it evacuated.

A group of Roman troops, who had been separated from the main body by the fog during the channel crossing, caught up with the remnants of Allectus's men, mostly Franks, at Londinium ( London ), and massacred them.

The main character will be Threptus, an 8-year-old Ostian beggar boy who makes appearances in the final Roman Mystery, The Man from Pomegranate Street & the final short story in The Legionary from Londinium and other mini-mysteries.

In Britain, the barrel of potion is confiscated from a pub cellar, along with all the " warm beer " ( bitter ) throughout Londinium, by the Romans, who set about tasting the barrels to find the right one.

Archaeology shows a thick red layer of burnt debris covering coins and pottery dating before 60 AD within the bounds of Roman Londinium.

Its name is derived from a southern gate of Epping Forest which once stretched continuously down from Epping to the main Roman Road ( now Romford Road ) linking Camulodunum to Londinium.

Constructed in 2004, the building is 68 m high and was built on the remains of the old Roman colony of Londinium, burned down by Boudica in 60.

By the end of the 1st century, Londinium had replaced Colchester as the capital of Roman Britain.

Londinium appears to have recovered, however, and by about 140, it had reached its estimated population height of around 45, 000 to 60, 000 inhabitants.

In the mid 12th century, before the construction of the church, the Knights Templar in London had met at a site in High Holborn in a structure originally established by Hugues de Payens ( the site had been historically the location of a Roman temple in Londinium ).

By 70AD the Romans had founded the fortress and town of Deva Victrix, now Chester, according to ancient cartographer Ptolemy, The fortress was 20 % larger than other fortresses in Britannia built around the same time at York ( Eboracum ) and Caerleon ( Isca Augusta ); this has led to the suggestion that the fortress, rather than London ( Londinium ), was intended to become the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Superior.

* Britain is divided in the north, Lower Britain ( Britannia Inferior ) administered from the fortress at Eburacum ( modern York ), and in the south, Upper Britain ( Britannia Superior ) controlled by the legions at Deva Victrix and Isca Augusta, with its capital at Londinium ( London ).

The legendary British king Lud may therefore ultimately be derived from Nodens, traditionally associated with the city of London / Londinium ( see Ludgate ).

This time the commander Count Theodosius was sent to deal with the problem and restore order, using Londinium as his base.

This find encourages the idea that Londinium was a large trade center, rather than a distribution center with holding areas like Ostia.

The scenes of carnage and destruction in Londinium left a deep impression on both of them, with neither keen to return to Roman Britain.

As religion spread from Rome to Londinium ( or present day Britain ) it brought with it other concepts that can still be seen in the Romance languages.

" Bell notes that " there is not the smallest rag of evidence associating it with Londinium ," and that it may well be a section of the foundation of Henry Fitz-Ailwin's stone house which remained after the rest of the house was gone, and which was honored for its association with London's first mayor and with independent self-government for the City.

Together with the female singer Roya Arab and the young rapper Rosko John, the band released their first album " Londinium " on Island Records in 1996, a mix of dark trip hop ( in a similar vein to Massive Attack ), electronica and, naturally, their breakbeat and hardcore roots, but with the unequivocal match of string arrangements and almost baroque and classically influenced songwriting.

Britannia Superior was the southern province of the two, with its capital at Londinium, or what is today London.

Though the whole of the time that Britannia Superior existed Londinium was its centre for commerce and government, with the governor residing within the city.

A metropolitan bishop of London attended the Council of Arles in 314, which indicates that there must have been a Christian community in Londinium by this date, and it has been suggested that a large aisled building excavated in 1993 near Tower Hill can be compared with the 4th-century Cathedral of St Tecla in Milan.

The two worlds that make up the " core planets " ( the first worlds to be terraformed ) are Sihnon, a mostly East Asia-themed planet, and Londinium, a world with mostly American and Western Europe influences.

In November 2010, the results from an archaeological dig made two years before on the site of the new hotel were reported, with the excavations uncovering the remains of a Roman village that existed in what was then the rural outskirts of Londinium.

He marched from Richborough to Londinium and began to deal with the invaders.

A new fleet was constructed in order to cross the Channel, and in 296, with a concentric attack on Londinium the insurgent province was retaken.