Britannia (disambiguation)

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Britannia is the original Latin name the Roman Empire gave to the island of Great Britain.

Britannia may also refer to:

Contents 1 Schools 2 Geography 3 Publications 4 Transportation 5 Popular culture 6 See also

• Britannia Building Society, a British mutual institution
• Britannia coin, a British bullion coin issued since 1987
• Britannia Hotels, company
• Britannia Industries, a biscuitmaking company in India
• Britannia metal, an alloy of pewter
• Britannia Monument, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
• Britannia railway station, Melbourne, Australia
• Britannia silver, an alloy of silver
• Britannia Stadium, the home of the English association football team Stoke City F.C
• Britannia Theatre, a former theatre in Hoxton, London

[edit] Schools

• Britannia Royal Naval College, the Royal Navy's officer training establishment at Dartmouth, Devon, England
• Britannia High School, in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England
• Britannia Secondary School, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[edit] Geography

• Roman Britain, the province of the Roman Empire called Britannia
  • Britannia Prima
  • Britannia Secunda
  • Britannia Inferior, a subdivision of the Roman province of Britannia
  • Britannia Superior
• Britannia (Ottawa), a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Britannia Beach, British Columbia, a small town near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Britannia Bridge
• Britannia, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Britannia Range, mountains in Antarctica
• Brittania No. 502, Saskatchewan, Canada

[edit] Publications

• Britannia (book), William Camden's great work of chorography, 1st edition, 1586
• Britannia (journal), a Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, published annually by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
• Britannia (magazine), a publication for expatriate Britons
• Britannia (newspaper), a newspaper published by the suffragettes (WSPU) during World War I

[edit] Transportation

• Britannia Airways, a UK based charter airline
• HMS Britannia, several Royal Navy warships
• HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht), a British Royal Racing Yacht
• HMY Britannia, a British Royal Yacht
• RMS Britannia, an ocean liner of the British Cunard Steamship Lines
• BR standard class 7, the British Railways "Britannia class" steam locomotives
  • 70000 Britannia, the first of the class
• Brittannia (ship), a whaler wrecked in 1806 of the coast of Australia
• Bristol Britannia, an airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1952
• Bristol Britannia, or Bristol Type 603, automobile made by Bristol Cars (1982–1994)

[edit] Popular culture

• Brittannia Game Designs
• Comics Britannia, a British television documentary on comics
• Sage (comics), a fictional character also known as "Britannia".
• Britannia (Ultima), a land in the Ultima game series
  • Britannia (Ultima Online), the setting of the game Ultima Online
• Britannia (board game), a historical board game first produced in 1986
• Britannia (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby bear made by Ty, Inc. during the late 1990s in honor of and exclusively sold in the United Kingdom
• Holy Britannia Empire, a fictional superpower in the anime series Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

[edit] See also

• Britain (name)

• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Headley Britannia, an eventing mare born in 1993
• Pugnaces Britanniae, an extinct breed of fighting dog
• "Rule, Britannia!", a British patriotic anthem written by Thomas Arne in the 18th century