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The name London comes from the Latin name Londinium, as London was founded by the Romans during their reign over the island— although there is some slight evidence of pre-Roman settlement. (The BBC History website, however, claims that the name Londinium is actually “Celtic, not Latin, and may originally have referred to a previous farmstead on the site;” this also implies that there indeed were pre-Roman settlements in the area.) This fortified Roman settlement was the capital of the province of Britannia.

Around 61 A.D. the Iceni tribe of Celts lead by Queen Boudicca stormed London and took the city from the Romans. The Celts burnt the relatively new Roman town to the ground, and archaelogical digs have revealed a layer of red ash beneath the City of London which is believed to be the burnt remains of the old Roman town.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Londinium was abandoned and a Saxon town named Lundenwic was established approximately one mile to the west in what is now Aldwych, in the 7th century. The old Roman city was then re-occupied during the late 9th or early 10th century.

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