Augusta may refer to:
Places
Australia
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Augusta, Western Australia
Brasil
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Rua Augusta (São Paulo)
Canada
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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 ...
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North Augusta, Ontario
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Augusta Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
France
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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
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Augusta Viromanduorum ("Augusta of the Viromandui"), Saint-Quentin
Germany
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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
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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
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Augusta, Sicily
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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
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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
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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 pa ...
or ''Augusta Perusia''
Spain
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Emerita Augusta, 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
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Augusta, Arkansas
Augusta is a city in Woodruff County, Arkansas, United States, located on the east bank of the White River. The population was 2,199 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Woodruff County.
Geography
Augusta is located at (35.286 ...
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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 se ...
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Augusta County, Virginia
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Augusta, Georgia
Augusta ( ), officially Augusta–Richmond County, is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia. The city lies across the Savannah River from South Carolina at the head of its navigable portion. Georgi ...
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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 n ...
("Augusta"), home of the Masters Tournament
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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 ...
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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 bec ...
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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 pe ...
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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 ...
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Augusta, Maine (capital city of Maine)
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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 ...
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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 mill ...
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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 Au ...
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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, r ...
, a viticultural area
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Augusta Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
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Augusta, West Virginia
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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) ...
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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 Na ...
, Utah, formerly named as 'Augusta'
Elsewhere
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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
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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 ...
("Rauric Augusta"), Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland
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Augusta Traiana ("Trajan Augusta"), Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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Bracara Augusta, Braga, Portugal
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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
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Londinium (former name Augusta), London, England
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Lastovo
Lastovo (; it, Lagosta, german: Augusta, la, Augusta Insula, el, Ladestanos, Illyrian: ''Ladest'') is an island municipality in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County in Croatia. The municipality consists of 46 islands with a total population of 792 p ...
(former name Augusta), a Croatian island
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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
Emp ...
, Bougainville Island
People
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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 Suessi ...
, a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires
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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
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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 ...
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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 A ...
Science
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254 Augusta, an asteroid
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Augusta family, an asteroid family
* ''Augusta'', a monotypic spider genus in the family Araneidae with the only species ''
Augusta glyphica''
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''Augusta'' (plant), a genus in the family Rubiaceae
Ships
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USS ''Augusta'', U.S. Navy ships named ''Augusta''
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HMS ''Augusta'', Royal Navy ships named ''Augusta''
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''Princess Augusta'' (ship), a British ship wrecked in 1738
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''Augusta'' (lifeboat), a lifeboat, Sheringham, Norfolk, England
Other uses
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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
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Augustan History'' (Latin: ''Historia Augusta''), a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman emperors of the 1st and 2nd century
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Augusta Heritage Festival, a festival in West Virginia, US
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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 ...
, a Roman legion
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''Augusta'' (album), by Willie Nelson and Don Cherry
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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
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Augusta (grape), an Italian grape variety
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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"
See also
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Shire of Augusta-Margaret River, Australia
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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 ...
("Euphratean Augusta"), a Roman province in Syria under Diocletian
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Aust
Aust is a small village in South Gloucestershire, England, about north of Bristol and about south west of Gloucester. It is located on the eastern side of the Severn estuary, close to the eastern end of the Severn Bridge which carries the M ...
, a village in Gloucestershire, England, claimed to be derived from Augusta
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Augustus (disambiguation)
Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD) was the first emperor of ancient Rome.
Augustus may also refer to:
Title
* Augustus (honorific), a title generally used by Roman Emperors
People People with the name
* Augustus (given name)
* Emanuel Augustus, boxer ...
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August (disambiguation)
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Augusts (given name)
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Agusta (disambiguation)
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Port Augusta (disambiguation)
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