London name initially has a Celtic origin (Llyn-Din: strength of the lagoon), but the Romans are the true founders of Londinium, the capital of province of Britannia. Are tracked in any case, cottages dating from 2000 BC.
Many ruins of Roman origin (walls, sanctuaries of Mithra ...) attest to an important commercial activity, whose intensity increased after the conquest of Britain by Claudius, the year 43 AD. Aulus occupied by Aulus, and then call from Londinium (Latin form of Celtic place name mentioned in the first paragraph), the city developed on the future Cornhill, at the northern exit of a bridge located on the axis of the present Gracechurch Street, just downstream of London Bridge over the Thames. Puerto
while and waterway, the first crossroads of the roads of the Roman province, Londinium became an active center of international traffic, since the time of Nero.
is Tacitus who for the year 60 AD mentions it as a commercial epicenter.
The revolt of Boudicca, or Boadicea (queen, ruler of the Iceni tribe), forced the governor C. Suetonius Paulinus to evacuate the city, which was burned 61 year on behalf of the British. Depopulated by the escape and murder again burned around 120 AD, recovered quickly under the protection of Cripplegate Fort, built in the late second century the city wall. The new wall actually marked the limits of the City ", within which raised a basilica is 500 feet long, built on the northern boundary of the forum, a temple of Mithras and two baths. Occupied by the "archipirata" Carausius from 286 to 293 and then by his praetorian prefect Alecto from 295 to 296, was saved from destruction by Constantius, as witness a gold medallion m found in Beaurains, near Arras, in 1922. It appears the city London in the form of a woman who greets the victorious Caesar. Was reinforced with bastions built with the remains of tombs and stone monuments of the past, eloquent testimony to the insecurity in the fourth century.
This was a summary of the founding of London and his early years until the fourth century.
Many ruins of Roman origin (walls, sanctuaries of Mithra ...) attest to an important commercial activity, whose intensity increased after the conquest of Britain by Claudius, the year 43 AD. Aulus occupied by Aulus, and then call from Londinium (Latin form of Celtic place name mentioned in the first paragraph), the city developed on the future Cornhill, at the northern exit of a bridge located on the axis of the present Gracechurch Street, just downstream of London Bridge over the Thames. Puerto
while and waterway, the first crossroads of the roads of the Roman province, Londinium became an active center of international traffic, since the time of Nero.
is Tacitus who for the year 60 AD mentions it as a commercial epicenter.
The revolt of Boudicca, or Boadicea (queen, ruler of the Iceni tribe), forced the governor C. Suetonius Paulinus to evacuate the city, which was burned 61 year on behalf of the British. Depopulated by the escape and murder again burned around 120 AD, recovered quickly under the protection of Cripplegate Fort, built in the late second century the city wall. The new wall actually marked the limits of the City ", within which raised a basilica is 500 feet long, built on the northern boundary of the forum, a temple of Mithras and two baths. Occupied by the "archipirata" Carausius from 286 to 293 and then by his praetorian prefect Alecto from 295 to 296, was saved from destruction by Constantius, as witness a gold medallion m found in Beaurains, near Arras, in 1922. It appears the city London in the form of a woman who greets the victorious Caesar. Was reinforced with bastions built with the remains of tombs and stone monuments of the past, eloquent testimony to the insecurity in the fourth century.
This was a summary of the founding of London and his early years until the fourth century.
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