Noviomagus

The Romanized Celtic place names Noviomagus wore various settlements of the ancient world:

  • Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum, City of the Batavians, today Nijmegen in Gelderland
  • Noviomagus Biturigum, City of Bituriges
  • Noviomagus Cantiacorum, City of Cantiaci, probably the present-day Crayford in London
  • Noviomagus Lexoviorum, City of Lexovii, today in Lisieux, Calvados
  • Noviomagus Nemetum or Civitas Nemetum, City of Nemeter, today Speyer in Rhineland -Palatinate
  • Noviomagus regnorum or Noviomagus Regnensium, City of Regni, today Chichester in West Sussex
  • Noviomagus Remorum, City of Remer
  • Noviomagus Treverorum, City of Treverians, today Neumagen -Dhron near Trier in Rhineland -Palatinate
  • Noviomagus Tricastinorum, later Augusta Tricastinorum, then Colonia Flavia Tricastinorum, today, Saint -Paul -Trois -Châteaux in the Drôme département in France
  • Noviomagus Veromanduorum, City of Viromanduer, today Noyon in the department of Oise

Meaning and variant

- magus is a basic word in Celtic place names. It goes back to the Celtic word magos " field ", " level ", " market " back. The Celtic adjective noviios means "new ". Noviomagus can therefore be translated as " Neumarkt ".

The Rhenish mainly place names that end in- stomach, as Durnomagus ( Dormagen ) and Rigomagus ( Remagen ), or Borbetomagus (Worms ) belong to this group.

Little more recognizable is the appellative - magus in French place names such as Rouen ( Rotomagus ), Caen ( Catomagus ), Carentan / Charenton ( Carentomagus ), where it has become -en/-an/-on.

Celtic languages Batavi (Germanic tribe) Nemetes Remi Neumagen-Dhron Black Forest
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