Bononia Name of the lower town of Boulogne. It has a Celtic root meaning lower
or beneath (Irish
bun the foot of a mountain) and the place name
forming suffix
onia. J Caesar called the harbour from which he
embarked his expedition to Britannia
Portus Itus, probably Boulogne.
Durocortorum Remis
Reims, the capital of the Remi Prei|m|o = premier. Durocortorum,
duro|cortor "place of ?", may have been the site of a pre Roman
oppidum but the Celtic town could equally well have been developed
after the arrival of J Caesar.
Turnacum
Tournai, the capital of the Menapi in the Late Empire when it replaced Cassel. Turnacum, turno|acum, "eminence|place" was possibly an early Roman military site on the left bank of the Escaut (Schelde) which was the boundary to the Nervi. Initially disorderly, the town expanded at the crossing of the roads from Arras with that from Cassel and was walled in the Late Empire.
From the Peutinger table and the Antonine Itinerary
ad Lullia, Douriez
Lintomagus, Brimeux celt
briva|magos "crossing|market"
Duronum, Etroeungt ger
stroma "rushing stream"
Pontes Scaldis, Escautpont
Hermoniacum, Bermerain ger
Bermar with -inus (?)
Teucera, Thièvres
Minariacum, Estaires ger
steger "mooring place" "jetty" on the Lys
Additional names from the Notitia Dignitatium
Marcis, (?)Marquise ger Markiso from
marka "marshy"
Portus Epatiacus, (?)Etaples
Fanum Martis, Famars "the temple of Mars"
Additional names from inscriptions and itineraries
vicus Helena, unlocated site of a battle between Aëtius and Chlodion on the banks of a river called Elnon at the northern frontier of the Atrebates sixty kilometers from Tournai.
Fines Atrebatum, unlocated site on the Atrebate boundary between Cassel and Arras.
vicus Dolucensis, Halinghen
