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Cirencester
Cirencester Site of a Roman amphitheatre, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England.

Cirencester

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Cirencester, town (parish), Cotswold district, administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire, southwest-central England. It lies on the River Churn and is the administrative centre for the district. Cirencester occupies the site of the Romano-British town Corinium, capital of the Dobuni tribe, at the junction of the important Roman and British roads known as Fosse Way, Ermine Street, and Akeman Street. The walls enclosed a town of 240 acres (100 hectares), and remains of a basilica, an amphitheatre, and many rich villas have been discovered. The town was the largest in Roman Britain after London and was probably a capital in ...(100 of 291 words)

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