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‘Utsurgae’
Utsurgae (Vt Surgas) was a Late Antique road station on the North Road of Eastern Thrace, 30 miles from Caenophrurium, identified near modern Çaklı, Turkey.
‘Vereis’
Vereis (Berebis, Βερβίς), Roman mansio in Pannonia inferior on the Poetovio–Mursa road, identified with Podgajci Podravski, Croatia; attested in the Peutinger Table, Ptolemy, and the itineraries, with a 236 CE milestone (CIL III 6465).
‘Vicianum’
Vicianum (Viciano), a Roman road station in Dardania near Vučitrn, Kosovo, on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Vindenis and Theranda; key junction of the Naissus-Lissus and Scupi routes, Barrington Atlas 49 D1.
‘Vico Mendicoleo’
Vico Mendicoleo (Mendicoleus vicus) is a Roman road station on the via Popilia in Lucania, shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana near Lagonegro and attested by the Geographer of Ravenna and Guido.
‘Vindenis’
Vindenis (Vindenae, Vendenis), Roman road station in Dardania on the Via Lissus-Naissus, Kosovo, near Glavnik by Podujeva; Tabula Peutingeriana site with Orpheus mosaic, marble sarcophagus, and possible castrum. Not Vindonissa, Switzerland.
‘Viscellis’
‘Viscellis’ (also Viscellae, RE), ancient road station in Noricum, Austria, known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana (segment 4A1); identified with Möderbrugg or Ober-Zeiring on the Pöls (ancient Viscella) river, Barrington Atlas 20 B2, Pleiades 197584.
‘Vorogio’
‘Vorogio’ (Vorogium, Vorocium), an ancient Roman road station in Gaul on the Tabula Peutingeriana, 8 leagues from Aquae Calidis (Vichy), identified with the Vouroux quarter of Varennes-sur-Allier, Allier, France; linked to the god Mars Vorocius.
"Beautiful Indonesia" Miniature Park
Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII), "Beautiful Indonesia in Miniature Park", is a 150-hectare culture theme park in East Jakarta, inaugurated 20 April 1975 by Suharto after Ibu Tien Soeharto's idea, showing 33 provincial pavilions, renovated 2022–2023 for Rp1.1 trillion.
"Dimitrie Brandza" Botanic Garden
"Dimitrie Brandza" Botanic Garden (Grădina Botanică "Dimitrie Brandza"), University of Bucharest botanical garden founded 1860, moved to Cotroceni site in 1884; 18.2 ha, ~4,000 taxa, herbarium over 520,000 specimens.
"Mithraeum" at Eleusis
Mithraeum at Eleusis: a Roman building of the 2nd century AD inside the Sanctuary of Demeter, interpreted as a Mithraic temple by Kourouniotis, with side benches, a cult pedestal, and a reused Peisistratean Doric porch.
"The Eternal City" Historical and Ethnographic Park
The Eternal City (Boqiy Shahar) is a purpose-built historical and ethnographic park opened in 2022 at the Silk Road Samarkand resort in Konigil, Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Designed by Bobur Ismoilov, it recreates architecture and crafts of eight Uzbek regions across 11-17 hectares, with free entry.
(A)Esica
Aesica (also Esica), the Roman fort at Great Chesters on Hadrian's Wall, Wall Mile 43, Northumberland; a 1.36 ha auxiliary fort built over Milecastle 43, completed AD 128-138, with a 6-mile aqueduct and an 1890s jewellery hoard.
(L)Ibida
(L)Ibida, also Libida, is a 24-hectare Roman–Byzantine fortress at Slava Rusă, Tulcea County, Romania, the largest in Dobrogea, occupied from the 2nd to 6th centuries AD and mentioned by Procopius.
(Lo)Volautrum
(Lo)Volautrum, also Lovolautrum, a fortified castrum in Gaul (Barrington Atlas 17 B2, France), identified with Vollore-Ville near Clermont; stormed by Theuderic I's army per Gregory of Tours, Histories III.13, where priest Proculus was killed at the altar.
(Mons) Brisiacus
Mons Brisiacus (Brisiacum, Brezecha) is the ancient Roman name of the fort and road station on the Münsterberg hill at Breisach am Rhein on the Upper Rhine, on the Vindonissa–Argentorate road, first documented in Valentinian I's edict of 369 and source of the name Breisgau.
[Augusta] Ambianorum
[Augusta] Ambianorum, also Briga or Augusta Ambianorum, is the Pleiades gazetteer name (ID 108771) for the Gallo-Roman sanctuary and small town at Bois l'Abbé near Eu, Seine-Maritime, France, a 65-hectare site with a 102 m theater, abandoned around 270-290 AD.
*Ad Mutrium
Ad Mutrium (Amutria, Greek Ἀμούτριον), Roman road station in southwestern Dacia on the Drobeta–Romula road, named for the Motru river; exact site unconfirmed, candidates include Butoiești and Botoșești-Paia.
*Albianum
Albianum, a Roman road station in Noricum on the Inn valley road (Itinerarium Antonini), between Veldidena and Pons Aeni; site disputed (Ebbs, Eichelwang, or Bad Aibling), distinct from Alviano's medieval name.
*Anao
Anao (Anaone) was an ancient Roman coastal station or port in the Alpes Maritimae, identified with Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, in Vediantii territory, attested in the Itinerarium maritimum Antonini 504.1 and catalogued as Pleiades place 157810.
*Anisus
Anisus is the reconstructed Roman name of the Enns river, a Danube tributary in Austria, also written Anisa or Anasus; it names a Tabula Peutingeriana station (Ani, near Radstadt) and the river beside Lauriacum.
*Aquae
Aquae, Latin for "waters," is the name the Romans gave to mineral spring sites, with over a hundred identified across the empire, including Aquae Sulis at Bath.
*Ausancalio
Ausancalio is the modern name of a Roman road station in the northern Balkans, recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana and tentatively identified with Sv. Rok or Lovinac, Croatia.
*Avisio
Avisio (Auisione) is a Roman road and coastal station attested in the Antonine Itinerary, identified with Èze in the Alpes-Maritimes, France; Pleiades place 157817, Barrington Atlas 16 D2, on the conjectured Augustan Nicea–Genua coastal road.
*Badera
Badera (Bad, Badéra) is the Gallo-Roman name of Baziège, Haute-Garonne, a station on the via Aquitaine 15 miles from Toulouse, noted for its milestone XV, amphora-rich wine market, and Hers pountils.
*Blesum
Blesum, also Blesae or Blisum, is the Latin name of ancient Blois on the Loire, a vicus of the Carnutes and road station on Barrington Atlas map 14, later castrum and county seat of the counts of Blois.
*Brigobannis
Brigobannis (Brigobanne), Roman fort and vicus at Hüfingen, Baden-Württemberg, on the Tabula Peutingeriana road Vindonissa–Regensburg; fort on the Galgenberg, 11th Legion bricks, bath ruins identified 1820, used into the 3rd century.
*Calanta
Calanta (Pleiades place 256042) is an ancient temple site near Santana do Campo, Arraiolos, Portugal, cited from Barrington Atlas 26 B3; names Calanatia, Calanta, Calantica, Calantum; active 30 BC to AD 300.
*Camboglanna
Camboglanna (Amboglanna), Roman auxiliary fort at Castlesteads, Cumbria, on Hadrian's Wall; the only Wall fort detached from the Wall, about 350 m south; garrisoned by the fourth cohort of Gauls and later the second cohort of Tungrians; name disputed with Birdoswald (Banna).
*Catalacum
Catalacum is an ancient villa of Roman Gaul recorded in the Barrington Atlas and Pleiades gazetteer, identified with a question mark at Chaptelat, a commune near Limoges in Haute-Vienne, France.
*Chrononum
Chrononum, an ancient (conjectural) place name in Gaul identified with Cournon-d'Auvergne, France; Barrington Atlas 14 I3 and 18 A4, Late Roman period, Pleiades place 138294, indexed as a Late Antique church or monastery site.