Augusta

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Augusta is the feminine form of Augustus in Latin. It is used in many European languages as a feminine given name.

The Roman Empire included the honorific Augusta in the name of many colonies and provincial capitals, at first after the Emperor Augustus and then after the Roman title augustus borne by (senior) emperors. These many cities were then distinguished, usually by appending the name of the people people nearby.

Places

In Australia

• Augusta, Western Australia
• Port Augusta, South Australia
• Shire of Augusta-Margaret River

In Canada

• Augusta, Ontario
• North Augusta, Ontario

In Europe

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• Augusta, Sicily, Italy
• Augusta Praetoria Salassorum ("Praetorian Augusta of the Salassi"), Aosta, Italy
• Augusta Raurica ("Rauric Augusta"), Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland
• Augusta Suessionum ("Augusta of the Suessii"), Soissons, France
• Augusta Taurinorum ("Augusta of the Taurini"), Turin, Italy
• Augusta Traiana ("Trajan Augusta"), Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
• Augusta Treverorum ("Augusta of the Treveri"), Trier, Germany
• Augusta Vindelicorum ("Augusta of the Vindelici"), Augsburg, Germany
• Augusta Viromanduorum ("Augusta of the Viromandui"), Saint-Quentin, France
• Bracara Augusta, Braga, Portugal
• Emerita Augusta, Mérida, Spain
• Isca Augusta ("Augustan Isca"), Caerleon, Wales
• Augusta Perusia: Perugia, Italy
• Caesar Augusta: Zaragoza, Spain
• Augusta, a former name of Londinium, London, England
• Augusta, a former name of the Croatian island Lastovo

In Asia

• Augusta Euphratensis ("Euphratean Augusta"), a Roman province in Syria under Diocletian

In the United States

• Augusta, Arkansas
• Augusta, Georgia
  • Augusta National Golf Club ("Augusta"), home of the Masters Tournament
• Augusta, Illinois
• Augusta, Kansas
• Augusta, Kentucky
• Augusta, Maine (capital city of Maine)
• Augusta, Michigan
• Augusta, Minnesota
• Augusta, Missouri
  • Augusta AVA, a viticultural area
• Augusta, Montana
• Augusta, New Jersey
• Augusta, New York
• North Augusta, South Carolina
• Augusta, West Virginia
• Augusta, Wisconsin
• Augusta County, Virginia
• Augusta Charter Township, Michigan
• Augusta Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
• Fort Augusta, Pennsylvania
• Mount Augusta, Alaska

Elsewhere

• Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville Island

People

• Augusta (honorific), a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires

Royalty

• Augusta (honorific), a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires
• Augusta of Denmark (1580–1639), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
• Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719–1772), later Princess of Wales
• Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737–1813), later Duchess of Brunswick
• Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768–1840)
• Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (1797–1889), later Duchess of Cambridge
• Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811–1890), German empress
• Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822–1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858–1921), German empress

• Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
• Princess Augusta of Bavaria
• Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales

Other

• Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish dramatist and folklorist
• Augusta Holmès, French composer
• Augusta Lundin (1840–1919) fashion designer
• Augusta Supple Australian theatre director, playwright and arts commentator
• Augusta Smith opera singer
• Augusta Read Thomas, American composer
• St. Augusta of Treviso, 2nd century virgin martyr
• Augusta von Fersen (1754–1846)
• Augusta Webster, English poetess
• Josef Augusta (ice hockey), Czech ice hockey player and coach
• Josef Augusta (paleontologist), a Czech paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
• Patrik Augusta, a Czech ice hockey player

Fictional characters

• "Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel The Richleighs of Tantamount
• Lady Augusta Bracknell, a character in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest
• Aunt Augusta, a character in Grahame Greene's novel Travels with My Aunt
• Aunt Augusta, a character in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster novels
• Augusta Longbottom, an elderly relative of a character in the Harry Potter books

Roman roads

• Via Augusta
• Via Claudia Augusta

Science

• 254 Augusta, an asteroid.
  • Augusta family, an asteroid family named after it
• Augusta (spider), a monotypic spider genus in the Araneidae family
• Augusta (plant), a genus in the Rubiaceae family

Ships

• USS Augusta, U.S. Navy ships named Augusta
• Princess Augusta (ship), a British ship wrecked in 1738
• Augusta (Lifeboat), a private lifeboat which was stationed in the town of Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk

Other

• Augusta Apartment Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
• Historia Augusta, the Latin name of Augustan History, a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman emperors of the 1st and 2nd century
• Augusta Heritage Festival, an annual summer music and heritage festival in the U.S. state of West Virginia
• Legio II Augusta, a Roman legion
• Augusta (album), by Willie Nelson and Don Cherry
• Lancia Augusta, an automobile
• Sheringham Lifeboat Augusta of Sheringham, Norfolk
• Augusta (grape), an Italian grape variety

See also

• Aust, a village in Gloucestershire, England, claimed to be derived from Augusta
• Augustus (disambiguation)
• Agusta (disambiguation)