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Wysłany: Pon 7:57, 18 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: AirMax 2011 A Brief History Of Leicester |
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premier is that the name is derived from a Celtic one, Coriletav. This theory is aided by the name the Romans are known to have given the settlement, Ratae Corieltauvorum. The other theory is that a fictitious British King, Leir, founded the settlement of Kaerleir around the same period as the Celts were supposedly in the area. King Leir, is assumed to be buried beneath the River Soar!
What we do understand for sure is that around in 47 alternatively 48 AD the Romans built a garrison there and then along almost 50AD a metropolis had grown up around it. Ratae Corieltauvorum was essential to the Romans as it was 1 of the key staging posts ashore a important Roman road, the Fosse Way, which interlocked what are now Exeter and Lincoln. Rapidly appropriate a market town because regional human and their generate, the accommodation thrived above the commerce that the Romans brought to the zone. When the Romans left, moving North to win extra of England, the settlement was well enough built to persist to prosper. The main trait still visible in Leicester of the Roman occupation is the Jewry Wall and its Bath House.
As with maximum of England [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], mini is known of the history of Leicester during the Dark Ages emulating the departure of the Romans. The afterward meaningful accident was in 680 while Leicester is known to have been given a Bishop; life in Leicester at this time seems to have been a agreeable one with the settlement continuing to prosper. Artefacts have been found showing that Leicester, aside its ploughing community, had fabric weavers [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], potters, blacksmiths and carpenters. The ninth century watched a down-turn in fortunes when the settlement fell to the Danish Viking invaders. The Bishop ran away which [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], fall butme canonical cause, left Leicester without a Bishop until the twentieth century.
The Norman Conquest sees Leicester said in the Doomsday paperback for Ledcestre. This name namely thought apt have been derived from Ligeraceaster; a fusion of Castra
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