Britannia (disambiguation)

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Britannia is the original Latin name the Roman Empire gave to the island of Great Britain, a name later used for a female personification of the United Kingdom.

Britannia may also refer to:

Britannia Bridge, a bridge across the Menai Strait
Britannia (former building society), a British mutual institution, previously the second largest building society in the UK.
Britannia coin, a British bullion coin issued since 1987
Britannia Hotels, company
Britannia Industries, a biscuitmaking company in India
Britannia, Lancashire, a village and suburb in North West England
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 Theatre, a former theatre in Hoxton, London

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

Geography

Provincia Britannia, a province of the Roman Empire
- Britannia Prima created after 312 AD
- Britannia Secunda created after 312 AD
- Britannia Inferior, a subdivision of the Roman province of Britannia from 167 AD, based at York
- Britannia Superior based at London
In Canada:
- Britannia, Ontario (disambiguation), Canada; several former villages
- Britannia Beach, British Columbia, a small town near Vancouver, British Columbia
- Britannia, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta
- Britannia Range (Canada), mountain range
- Britannia, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Britannia Road (Mississauga), in Ontario
- Britannia Road, Ontario, a road in Huntsville
- Brittania No. 502, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality
Britannia Range (Antarctica), mountain range
Britannia Bridge, a bridge linking the island of Anglesey to the mainland of Wales
Britannia, Lancashire, a village and suburb in North West England
Britannia, Mauritius, a village in the district of Savanne, Mauritius

Publications

Britannia (journal), a Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, published annually by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Britannia, William Camden

Sport

Britannia Football Club, the precursor to the Collingwood Football Club, Victoria, Australia
Britannia Stadium, the home of the English association football team Stoke City F.C
Berliner Thor- und Fussball Club Britannia, a German football team, renamed Berliner SV after the First World War
Britânia SC, former football club from Curitiba, Brasil (1914–71). Percursor of Paraná Clube.

Transportation

K1 Britannia, a 1994 replica (refit in 2012) of King George V's famed racing yacht Britannia which was scuttled in 1936.
HMS Britannia, any of several Royal Navy warships
HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht), a British Royal Racing Yacht
HMY Britannia, a former British Royal Yacht
RMS Britannia, an ocean liner of the British Cunard Steamship Lines
SS Britannia (1925), a passenger ship sunk by the German auxiliary cruiser Thor in 1941 with the loss of 249 lives.
SS Britannia, one of a number of steamships built between 1863 and 1929
Britannia, a convict transport and whaler, wrecked in 1806 off the coast of Australia
One of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.
70000 Britannia, was the first of the British Railways Britannia Class steam locomotives, built at Crewe in 1951.
- Britannia Class refers to BR Standard Class 7 steam locomotives.
Britannia Airways, a UK-based charter airline
Bristol Britannia, an airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1952
Bristol Type 603, or Bristol Britannia, a vehicle made by Bristol Cars (1982–1994)
MV Britannia (2015), a ship built for P&O Cruises.

Popular culture

"Rule, Britannia!", a British patriotic anthem written by Thomas Arne in the 18th century
Britannia series, a series of BBC documentaries on various aspects of British culture
- Comics Britannia, a documentary from 2007 on British comics
- Birds Britannia, a documentary from 2010 on British birds
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
Britannia, a fictional location in the Ultima video game series.
Holy Britannian Empire, a fictional superpower in the anime series Code Geass.
Sage (comics), a fictional character also known as "Britannia".

Landmarks

Britannia Hut, in the Swiss Alps