Ulpia may refer to:

People

* Ulpia gens, ancient Roman family which produced the emperor Trajan (98–117)

Places

A number of Roman settlements, mostly named in honour of the Emperoro Trajan: *

Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa was the capital and the largest city of Roman Dacia, later named ''Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa'' after the former Dacian capital, located some 40 km away. Built on the ground of a camp of t ...

, the capital of

Roman Dacia Roman Dacia ( ; also known as Dacia Traiana, ; or Dacia Felix, 'Fertile/Happy Dacia') was a province of the Roman Empire from 106 to 271–275 AD. Its territory consisted of what are now the regions of Oltenia, Transylvania and Banat (today ...

, located near modern

Tapae Tapae was a fortified settlement, guarding Sarmizegetusa, the main political centre of Dacia. Its location was on the Iron Gates of Transylvania, a natural passage breaking between Țarcului and Poiana Ruscă Mountains and connecting Banat to Ț ...

in Romania *

Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about ...

, modern Nijmegen, Netherlands. *

Colonia Ulpia Traiana Xanten (, Low Rhenish: ''Santen'') is a town in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the district of Wesel. Xanten is known for the Archaeological Park, one of the largest archaeological open air museums in the wor ...

, modern Xanten, Germany. * Civitas Ulpia Sueborum Nicretum, modern Ladenburg, Germany. *

Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovio Ptuj (; german: Pettau, ; la, Poetovium/Poetovio) is a town in northeastern Slovenia that is the seat of the Municipality of Ptuj. Ptuj, the oldest recorded city in Slovenia, has been inhabited since the late Stone Age and developed from a Roman ...

, modern Ptuj, Slovenia. * Ulpia Serdica, another name for Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. *

Colonia Ulpia Oescensium Oescus, Palatiolon or Palatiolum ( bg, Улпия Ескус, ) was an important ancient city on the Danube river in Roman Moesia. It later became known as ''Ulpia Oescus''. It lay northwest of the modern Bulgarian city of Pleven, near the v ...

or Oescus, near modern

Pleven Pleven ( bg, Плèвен ) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality. It is the biggest ...

, Bulgaria. *

Colonia Ulpia Ratiaria Ratiaria (or: Raetiaria, Retiaria, Reciaria, Razaria; bg, Рациария; el, Ραζαρία μητρόπολις;) was a city founded by the Moesians, a Daco-Thracians, Thracian tribe, in the 4th century BC, along the river Danube. In Roman ...

, near modern Archar, Bulgaria. * Marcianopolis Ulpia, another name for Marcianopolis, Bulgaria. * Ulpia Nicopolis, another name for Nicopolis ad Istrum, near mordern Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. * Ulpia Topira, another name for

Topeiros Topeiros ( el, Τόπειρος) is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit, Greece. The municipality has an area of 312.493 km2. Population 11,544 (2011). The seat of the municipality is in Evlalo Evlalo ( el, Εύλαλο; tr, İnhanlı) is ...

, near modern

Evlalo Evlalo ( el, Εύλαλο; tr, İnhanlı) is a village and a community in the Xanthi regional unit of Thrace, Greece. The municipal seat of Topeiros, it is located 23 kilometers south-southwest of the city of Xanthi Xanthi ( el, Ξάνθη, '' ...

, northeastern Greece. * Colonia Concordia Ulpia Trajana Augusta Frugifera Hadrumetina, another name for Hadrumetum, Tunisia. * Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi, another name for Timgad, Algeria. {{disambig