Augusta may refer to:

Places

Australia

Augusta, Western Australia Augusta is a town on the south-west coast of Western Australia, where the Blackwood River emerges into Flinders Bay. It is the nearest town to Cape Leeuwin, on the furthest southwest corner of the Australian continent. In the it had a populat ...

Brasil

* Rua Augusta (São Paulo)

Canada

Augusta, Ontario Augusta Township is a township in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, located in eastern Ontario, Canada. Augusta is situated along the Saint Lawrence River, and extends back into rural hamlets. The township is located between the city of ...

North Augusta, Ontario North Augusta is a settlement located in the township of Augusta, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, in Eastern Ontario, Canada. An unincorporated place and police village, it had a population of approximately 550 at its height in the late ...

* Augusta Street (Hamilton, Ontario)

France

Augusta Suessionum Augusta Suessionum was the civitas capital of the Suessiones, a Belgic tribe dwelling in the modern Aisne and Oise regions. Today known as Soissons, the Roman city was founded during the reign of Augustus around 20 BC near their central oppidum ...

("Augusta of the Suessii"), Soissons *

Augusta Viromanduorum Augusta Viromanduorum is an ancient Gallo-Roman settlement, corresponding to the modern city of Saint-Quentin ( Aisne, Hauts-de-France). Name The settlement is mentioned as ''Au̓goústa Ou̓iromandúōn'' () by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), ''Augusta ...

("Augusta of the Viromandui"), Saint-Quentin

Germany

Augusta Treverorum Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate, whose history dates to the Roman Empire, is often claimed to be the oldest city in Germany. Traditionally it was known in English by its French name of Treves. Prehistory The first traces of human settlement in ...

("Augusta of the Treveri") or Trier *

Augusta Vindelicorum Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the '' ...

("Augusta of the Vindelici") or Augsburg

Italy

Augusta, Sicily Augusta (, archaically ''Agosta''; scn, Austa ; Greek and la, Megara Hyblaea, Medieval: ''Augusta'') is a town and in the province of Syracuse, located on the eastern coast of Sicily (southern Italy). The city is one of the main harbours in I ...

Augusta Praetoria Salassorum Aosta (, , ; french: Aoste , formerly ; frp, Aoûta , ''Veulla'' or ''Ouhta'' ; lat, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum; wae, Augschtal; pms, Osta) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, north-northwest of ...

("Praetorian Augusta of the Salassi") or Aosta *

Augusta Taurinorum Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

("Augusta of the Taurini") or Turin *

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...

or ''Augusta Perusia''

Spain

Emerita Augusta Emerita may refer to: * ''Emerita'' (crustacean), a genus of crustaceans * Emerita Augusta, an ancient city of Spain * Saint Emerita, 3rd-century martyr; see Digna and Emerita * Emerita, the feminine form of the adjective "emeritus ''Emeritus' ...

, Mérida, Spain * Caesar Augusta,

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

, Spain

United States

Augusta, Arkansas Augusta is a city in Woodruff County, Arkansas, Woodruff County, Arkansas, United States, located on the east bank of the White River (Arkansas), White River. The population was 2,199 at the United States Census 2010, 2010 census. The city is the ...

Augusta Charter Township, Michigan Augusta Charter Township is a charter township of Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 6,745 at the 2010 census. Communities * Eaton Mills is a historic community located within the township. It was a lumber set ...

Augusta County, Virginia Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. Its county ...

Augusta, Georgia Augusta ( ), officially Augusta–Richmond County, is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. The city lies across the Savannah River from South Carolina at the head of its navig ...

Augusta National Golf Club Augusta National Golf Club, sometimes referred to as Augusta or the National, is a golf club in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Unlike most private clubs which operate as non-profits, Augusta National is a for-profit corporation, and it does no ...

("Augusta"), home of the Masters Tournament *

Augusta, Illinois Augusta is a village in Hancock County, Illinois, United States. The population was 587 at the 2010 census, down from 657 at the 2000 census. It is located near Weinberg-King State Park.Augusta, Indiana Augusta is an unincorporated community in Lockhart Township, Pike County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. History The first permanent settlement at Augusta was made in the 1860s. A post office was established at Augusta in 1874, and remained in ...

Augusta, Indianapolis, Indiana Augusta is a neighborhood in Pike Township, Marion County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It was formerly a small village that later had a post office and general stores. History Augusta was settled when the Michigan Road was completed. It beca ...

Augusta, Kansas Augusta is a city in Butler County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 9,256. History 19th century The confluence of the Whitewater River and the Walnut River was originally inhabited by Osage peo ...

Augusta, Kentucky Augusta is a home rule-class city in Bracken County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is sited upon the southern bank of the Ohio River. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,190. When Bracken County was organized in 1796, Augusta wa ...

Augusta, Maine Augusta is the capital of the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Kennebec County. The city's population was 18,899 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in Maine, and third-least populous state capital in the Un ...

(capital city of Maine) *

Augusta, Michigan Augusta is a village in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 885 at the 2010 census. The village is mostly within Ross Township, though a small portion extends south into Charleston Township. Augusta is situated ...

Augusta, Minnesota Augusta is an unincorporated community in Carver County, Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 millio ...

Augusta, Missouri Augusta is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The population was 253 at the 2010 census. The city boasts wineries, antique shops, restaurants, B&B's, a wood shop, a glass studio, massage therapy, a historic museum and The Aug ...

Augusta AVA The Augusta AVA was established on June 20, 1980 as the first federally approved American Viticultural Area, eight months before the Napa Valley AVA in northern California. The petition was submitted by Clayton W. Byers and Lucian W. Dressel, ...

, a viticultural area *

Augusta, Montana Augusta is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, United States. The population was 309 at the 2010 census and rising to 316 in the 2020 census. The most accepted version in the naming o ...

Augusta, New Jersey Augusta is an unincorporated community located within Frankford Township, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population for the ZIP Code Tabulation Area 07822 was 887.

Augusta, New York Augusta is a town in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 2,020 at the 2010 census. The Town of Augusta is in the southwestern part of Oneida County. History Augusta was settled in 1793 by a man named Gunn, whose son, Pete ...

* Augusta Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota * Augusta, West Virginia *

Augusta, Wisconsin Augusta is a city in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,550 at the 2010 census. The city is bordered by the Town of Bridge Creek. History Augusta was formerly called Ridge Creek. A post office has been in operati ...

Fort Augusta Fort Augusta was a stronghold in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the upper Susquehanna Valley from the time of the French and Indian War to the close of the American Revolution. The fort was erected by Colonel William Clapham in 1756 at a ...

, Pennsylvania *

Mount Augusta Mount Augusta, also designated Boundary Peak 183, is a high peak in the state of Alaska. Mount Augusta lies about south of Mount Logan and 25 km east of Mount Saint Elias, respectively the first and second highest mountains in Canada. It f ...

, Alaska *

North Augusta, South Carolina North Augusta is a city in Aiken and Edgefield counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina, on the north bank of the Savannah River. The population was 21,348 at the 2010 census. The city is included in the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) ...

Sipapu Bridge Sipapu Bridge is a natural bridge or arch located in the Natural Bridges National Monument in central San Juan County, Utah, United States. The bridge spans White Canyon. Description Sipapu was long reported to have a span of by the Nation ...

, Utah, formerly named as 'Augusta'

Elsewhere

Augusta Euphratensis Euphratensis (Latin for " Euphratean"; grc-gre, Εὑφρατησία, ''Euphratēsía''), fully Augusta Euphratensis, was a late Roman and then Byzantine province in Syrian region, part of the Byzantine Diocese of the East. History Sometime b ...

, Late Roman and Byzantine province in Syrian region *

Augusta Raurica Augusta Raurica is a Roman archaeological site and an open-air museum in Switzerland located on the south bank of the Rhine river about 20 km east of Basel near the villages of Augst and Kaiseraugst. It is the site of the oldest known Roma ...

("Rauric Augusta"), Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland *

Augusta Traiana Stara Zagora ( bg, Стара Загора, ) is the sixth-largest city in Bulgaria, and the administrative capital of the homonymous Stara Zagora Province. Name The name comes from the Slavic root ''star'' ("old") and the name of the medieva ...

("Trajan Augusta"), Stara Zagora, Bulgaria *

Bracara Augusta Braga ( , ; cel-x-proto, Bracara) is a city and a municipality, capital of the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province. Braga Municipality has a resident population of 193,333 inhabitants (in ...

, Braga, Portugal *

Isca Augusta Isca, variously specified as Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, was the site of a Roman legionary fortress and settlement or ''vicus'', the remains of which lie beneath parts of the present-day suburban village of Caerleon in the north of the city of ...

("Augustan Isca"), Caerleon, Wales *

Londinium Londinium, also known as Roman London, was the capital of Roman Britain during most of the period of Roman rule. It was originally a settlement established on the current site of the City of London around AD 47–50. It sat at a key cross ...

(former name Augusta), London, England *

Lastovo Lastovo (; it, Lagosta, german: Augusta, la, Augusta Insula, el, Ladestanos, Illyrian: ''Ladest'') is an island municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-governm ...

(former name Augusta), a Croatian island *

Empress Augusta Bay Empress Augusta Bay is a bay on the western side of the island of Bougainville Island, within the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in northeastern Papua New Guinea. It is a subsistence fishing area for the people of Bougainville. History Em ...

, Bougainville Island

People

Augusta (honorific) Augusta may refer to: Places Australia * Augusta, Western Australia Brasil * Rua Augusta (São Paulo) Canada * Augusta, Ontario * North Augusta, Ontario * Augusta Street (Hamilton, Ontario) France * Augusta Suessionum ("Augusta of the Sues ...

, a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires *

Augusta (name) Augusta can be a given name or surname. It could be derived from Augusta, a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires or simply as a feminine variant of August. Given name Royalty * Augusta of Denmark (1580–1639), Duchess ...

, a given name and surname

Roman roads

Via Augusta The ''Via Augusta'' (also known as the ''Via Herculea'' or ''Via Exterior'') was the longest and busiest of the major roads built by the Romans in ancient Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula). According to historian Pierre Sillières, who has super ...

Via Claudia Augusta The Via Claudia Augusta is an ancient Roman road, which linked the valley of the Po River with Rhaetia (encompassing parts of modern Eastern Switzerland, Northern Italy, Western Austria, Southern Germany and all of Liechtenstein) across the Alps ...

Science

* 254 Augusta, an asteroid ** Augusta family, an asteroid family * ''Augusta'', a monotypic spider genus in the family Araneidae with the only species ''

Augusta glyphica ''Augusta glyphica'' is the only species in the monotypic spider genus ''Augusta'', which is endemic to Madagascar. The genus name is taken from the Latin word ''augusta'', the feminine form of ''augustus'', meaning "venerable". See also * List ...

'' * ''Augusta'' (plant), a genus in the family Rubiaceae

Ships

* USS ''Augusta'', U.S. Navy ships named ''Augusta'' * HMS ''Augusta'', Royal Navy ships named ''Augusta'' * ''Princess Augusta'' (ship), a British ship wrecked in 1738 * ''Augusta'' (lifeboat), a lifeboat, Sheringham, Norfolk, England

Other uses

Augusta Apartment Building The Augusta Apartment Building, along with the Louisa Apartment Building, are historic structures located in the Northwest Quadrant of Washington, D.C. Washington architect Arthur B. Heaton designed both buildings, which were built a year apart ...

, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., US * ''

Augustan History The ''Historia Augusta'' (English: ''Augustan History'') is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on the sim ...

'' (Latin: ''Historia Augusta''), a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman emperors of the 1st and 2nd century *

Augusta Heritage Festival Augusta Heritage Festival is a music and heritage festival held each summer at the Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia. Over 20 years old, this three week festival covers music, dance and crafts relating to 10+ themes. These themes inc ...

, a festival in West Virginia, US *

Legio II Augusta Legio II Augusta ( Second Legion "Augustus'") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army that was founded during the late Roman republic. Its emblems were the Capricornus, Pegasus, and Mars. It may have taken the name "''Augusta''" from a victory or ...

, a Roman legion * ''Augusta'' (album), by Willie Nelson and Don Cherry *

Lancia Augusta The Lancia Augusta is a small passenger car produced by Italian car manufacturer Lancia between 1933 and 1936. It made its première at the 1932 Paris Motor Show. The car was powered by a 1,196 cc Lancia V4 engine. During the 1920s, Lancia had b ...

, an automobile * Augusta (grape), an Italian grape variety * ''

The Augustas ''The Augustas'' (filmed in the 1930s and the 1940s) is a home movie made by Scott Nixon, a traveling insurance agent from Augusta, Georgia and an avid member of the Amateur Cinema League who enjoyed recording his life and travels on film. It las ...

'', a homemade movie about towns named "Augusta"