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Abrud (Romania)

Abrud (Abrudbánya) is a town in Alba County, Transilvania, Romania, in the Apuseni Mountains at the gate of Țara Moților. Roman Alburnus Minor with a castellum; first attested 1271; free city 1491; about 4,800 inhabitants in 2021.

Amden

Amden, a municipality in canton St. Gallen, Switzerland, on a terrace above Lake Walensee; home to the early Roman Stralegg watchtower at Betlis, seven registered archaeological sites, and the Meyer-Amden artists' colony.

Buziaş

Buziaş (Buziás, Busiasch) is a town and spa resort located in Banat, western Romania. The settlement, known since the Roman period as Ahibis, is renowned for its carbonated mineral waters.

Casale Morena

Casal Morena, a frazione of Rome on the via Anagnina near Ciampino; medieval casale over a Roman villa attributed to Lucio Licinio Murena; Moreni name recorded from the 10th century.

Farnham

Farnham, Surrey: historic market town on the River Wey, 37.5 miles SW of London. Episcopal manor from Domesday; Farnham Castle, Waverley Abbey, Roman Alice Holt potteries, Mesolithic pit-dwellings; Craft Town since 2013.

Klosterneuburg

Klosterneuburg, Lower Austrian Danube town near Vienna, site of the Roman auxiliary fort Arrianis (also proposed: Asturis, Cannabiaca, Quadriburgium) on the Danube Limes, occupied about 70–500 AD, later split from Korneuburg and home to Stift Klosterneuburg.

Ladispoli

Ladispoli, also called the city of Ladislao Odescalchi, is a Tyrrhenian coastal town in Lazio founded in 1888, autonomous from Cerveteri since 1970, on the territory of the ancient Roman colony of Alsium.

Radotín

Radotín, a Prague 16 city district, is a cadastral territory located on the left bank of the Berounka, known for its expansive history and the Lahovice Slavic burial ground.

Vittel

Vittel is a spa commune in the Vosges department of northeastern France, giving its name to a Nestlé mineral water bottled there since the nineteenth century.