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Târgovishte

Târgovishte (Търговище) is a city in northeastern Bulgaria and the administrative center of Targovishte Province, known in the Ottoman period as Eski Djuma for its great international fair.

Ţebea

Ţebea, also spelled Țebia or Czebe, is a village in Baia de Criș commune, Hunedoara County, Romania, known for Roman gold mining and Avram Iancu's grave.

Tincova

Tincova, a village in Sacu commune, Caraș-Severin, Banat, Romania, on DN58 between Lugoj and Caransebeș; first attested 1411, with a Roman-era iron mine (RAN 53782.04) and an excavated open-air Paleolithic site.

Tingewick

Tingewick is a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, near the River Great Ouse, recorded in Domesday as Tedinwiche and known for its Roman villa at Stollidge Field excavated 1860-62.

Titeşti

Titeşti, Vâlcea County, Romania: village with the Roman fort on Dealul Cazanului (RAN 172260.01), built AD 138 by the numerus burgariorum et veredariorum on the Alutanus Limes; distinct from Țițești commune, Argeș.

Töging

Töging am Inn is a town of about 9,500 in Upper Bavaria, Germany, on the river Inn, which became an industrial town in the early 20th century.

Torvaianica

Torvaianica (Torvajanica), a seaside frazione of Pomezia on the Lazio Tyrrhenian coast about 30 km south of Rome; sandy family beaches, fishing tradition from Minturno, Torre del Vajanico origin, Roman villa of via Siviglia, Zoomarine, coastal erosion.

Veroli

Veroli (ancient Verulae) is a hill town in Frosinone province, Lazio, about 600 m high on the Ernici Mountains, with Ernici polygonal walls, the Roman Fasti Verolani calendar, and the 2024 Amedeo Maiuri National Archaeological Museum.

Village of Sidi Bou Saïd

Village of Sidi Bou Saïd (سيدي بوسعيد), Tunisian cliff-top village near Carthage, named for Sufi saint Abou Saïd al-Beji (d. 1231); blue-and-white palette set by 1915 decree; UNESCO World Heritage site since 25 July 2026, criterion (iii).

Villarodin-Bourget

Villarodin-Bourget, a Savoie commune in Haute Maurienne, France, with four villages including La Norma, the Maginot fort Saint-Gobain museum, and the 4,036 m Villarodin-Bourget/Modane drift of the Mont Cenis base tunnel.

Villepey

Villepey, in the Var, France, is a locality near Fréjus and Saint-Aygulf with a Gallo-Roman villa (villa Podii), the deserted medieval castrum Ville Piscis, and the 270-hectare Étangs de Villepey lagoon, a Ramsar wetland since 2008.

Vimines

Vimines (Vimen, Viminis) is a commune in Savoie, France, near Chambéry, with a Gallo-Roman settlement, the brèche de Vimines marble quarry, and a history as a passage point across the Chaîne de l'Épine.

Vîrciorova

Vîrciorova (Vârciorova) is a village in Bolvaşniţa commune, Caraş-Severin, Banat, Romania, first attested 1433 under Nicolae Bizerea; 1,054 inhabitants in 2002, with Roman quarry, glass workshop, coal and quartz mining, distinct from the flooded Danube namesake.

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.

Walton-on-the-Hill

Walton-on-the-Hill, a village in Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, England, with a scheduled Roman villa on Sandlands Road: identified 1915, excavated 1939-40, rebuilt as a 44 m winged corridor house around AD 180, abandoned before AD 410.

Wanborough

Wanborough names two English villages with major Roman archaeology: Wanborough, Surrey, with a scheduled Romano-Celtic temple complex, unique priestly regalia and a looted 10,000-coin hoard, and Wanborough, Wiltshire, identified with the Roman small town Durocornovium.

Wingham

Wingham is a village and civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, England, roughly halfway between Canterbury and Sandwich, and the site of a scheduled Roman villa.

Wrocław-Zakrzów

Wrocław-Zakrzów is a district in northeastern Wrocław, Poland, best known for three richly furnished Roman-period Przeworsk-culture princely graves discovered in 1886–1887 and excavated by Wilhelm Grempler.

Yvonand

Yvonand, Vaud municipality on Lake Neuchâtel's south shore; UNESCO pile-dwelling site Le Marais (Horgen/Lüscherz, Late Bronze Age) and the large Gallo-Roman villa of Mordagne, occupied from the 1st century AD.

Zlonice

Zlonice (German: Slonitz, Zlonitz) is a market town in Kladno District, Central Bohemia, 6 km from Slaný; first mentioned 1318, linked to Dvořák's First Symphony and an old Jewish cemetery.

Zuchering

Zuchering, a district of Ingolstadt, Bavaria, on the south Danube bank; first recorded as Zuohiringin in the 12th century, with an urnfield cemetery (1300-800 BC) and an early medieval iron-smelting settlement.