GEOGRAPHIC SETTINGS

AMBROSIUS AURELIANUS
LEGACY OF THE PHOENIX KING 


Note: all material from Ambrosius Aurelianus: Legacy of the Phoenix King is copyrighted 1/23, 2008. Please give appropriate citations when quoting excerpts, which are in black print.


The locations on the continent are marked by an asterisk (*). Likewise, the terms Gaul and France can be used synonymously.


                                 Description                                                  Geographic Locales	

                         Abergavenny	                         Welsh town on the Afon Gobenni; site of the Roman fort Gobannium
 
                        Augustonemeton	                         Ancient Roman/Gaulish site near modern Clermont-Ferrand, France
 
                        Albion	                                      Ancient Latin term for Britain, or Britanniae; Prydein
 
                        *Angeln	                                      Kingdom of the Schleswig-Jutland peninsula on the continent
 
                        Anglia	                                      Territories east of the Midlands in Prydein
 
                        Aquae Sulis	                                Name for the City of Bath from the fifth century time until the 700s
     
                        *Aquitania	                                Southernmost territory of Gaul
 
                        *Arelate	                                      Roman coloniae in Gaul, later named Arles
                        
                        *Armorica	                               Another term for Brittany; Little Britain
 
                        Baeddan/Cornovii	                  Literally, the Boar of Cornovii, a title for Arthur
 
                        Baeddan (Montis)	                  Literally, Boar Mountain, reference to The Wrekin hillfort in Cornovii
 
                        Beddgelert	                               Citadel in northern Wales. See Clas Gwynant
 
                        *Burdigala	                               Roman name for the modern city of Bordeaux, France
 
                        Caerleon	                                     See Guar Wysg
 
                        Chester	                                    Modern site of Deva, between the Rivers Dee and Mersey
 
                        Clas Gwynant	                        Literally Celtic Monastery/Afon Nantgwynant.
 
                        *Deols	                                     Roman Argentomagus, where Euric the Visigoth defeated Riothamus
 
                        Dumnonii	                               Presently the peninsula of Cornwall
 
                        Hafren (River)	                        Severn River; Sabrina River
 
                        *Liger (River)	                               Present-day Loire River, demarcation between Armorica and Celtae
 
                        *Lugdunum	                               Presently Lyon, on the River Rhone, France
 
                        Mynyw	                                     Welsh term for St Davids
 
                        Nanhyfer	                                     Nevern on the west-central coast of Wales
 
                        *Narbo Martius	                       Roman province south of the Three Gauls
 
                        Severus Wall	                             More commonly known as Offa's Dyke
 
                        Wreocun	                                    The Wrekin, a tor east of Wroxceastir in Great Britain
 
                        Wroxceastir	                              Main headquarter in Britannia Prima;Viroconium; tribal capital of Cornovi