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Austrian towns and villages

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Aradul Nou

Aradul Nou ("New Arad") is a district of Arad, Romania, south of the Mureș on DN69; formerly a German-colonist commune, annexed to Arad in 1948, known for a Celtic necropolis and disputed Roman brick stamps.

Campochiaro

Campochiaro, a comune in Campobasso province, Molise, Italy, hosts the Samnite sanctuary of Hercules at Civitella, identified with ancient Herculaneum, and early medieval Avar-Lombard necropoleis at Vicenne and Morrione.

Finchingfield

Finchingfield, Essex village (Domesday Fincingefelda, 1086): historic green, duck pond, Grade I Guildhall of 1470, 51-listed-building conservation area (1969), Roman villa sites, and a 2022-excavated medieval tile kiln.

Fritzens

Fritzens is a Tyrolean municipality in the Inn valley (Innsbruck-Land district, 591 m, 2,054 inhabitants in 2013) and, with Sanzeno in Trentino, the eponymous type site of the Iron Age Fritzens-Sanzeno (Raetian) culture, which emerged around 450 BCE and ended with Rome's 15 BC Alpine campaign.

Jijila

Jijila is a commune in Tulcea County, Romania, on the Lower Danube, hosting the Dinogetia Roman-Byzantine fortress at Garvăn, the Cetățuie fortified settlement, and the La Grădini Late Bronze Age site.

Kundl

Kundl is a market municipality in the Kufstein District of the Austrian state of Tyrol, on the Inn River between Wörgl and Rattenberg, first documented in 788 as "ad Quantalas".

Lydney

Lydney, Gloucestershire town on the Severn; Camp Hill promontory fort with Roman iron mines and the temple complex of Nodens, excavated by Bathurst (1805), the Wheelers (1928-29), and Casey and Hoffmann (1980-81).

Mannersdorf an der March

Mannersdorf an der March, a wine village in Angern an der March municipality, Gänserndorf district, Lower Austria: 129 loess wine cellars, the 1638 Rochuskapelle, Hallstatt and Germanic graves, St. Agatha parish.

Minori

Minori (ancient Rheginna Minor) is an Amalfi Coast town in Salerno province, Italy, home to the Villa romana e Antiquarium, a well-preserved 1st-century-AD Roman maritime villa with triclinium-nymphaeum, closed for restoration since August 2025.

Mistelbach an der Zaya

Mistelbach an der Zaya is the district seat of the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria's Weinviertel, on the Mistel stream near the Zaya. Known for its 1200 Karner, 1874 city charter, Jewish cemetery, and a 2019 hoard of 5,096 medieval silver coins.

Montebuono

Montebuono, a hilltop comune of about 1,000 people in Sabina, province of Rieti, Lazio, known for the Romanesque church of San Pietro ad Muricentum over the Roman Terme di Agrippa villa and the church of Santa Maria Assunta at Fianello.

Ostrovany

Ostrovany (Osztópataka, Ósztrópataka) is a village in Sabinov District, eastern Slovakia, on the Torysa river, known for Germanic princely graves found in 1790 and 1865, dated 270–290 AD, and a 1248 first written record.

Petnic

Petnic is a village in Iablanița commune, Caraș-Severin County, Banat, Romania, known for a Roman-period stone quarry, Roman road and funerary finds, and the Petnic Formation named after it.

St-Aubin-sur-Gaillon

St-Aubin-sur-Gaillon, a commune in the Eure, Normandy, on the left bank of the Seine near Gaillon, known for its Gallo-Roman sanctuary of three temples in an 80 m × 58 m peribole, excavated 1901–1914 by A.-G. Poulain, plus a coin hoard and medieval church.