Augusta

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Augusta can mean:

Augusta as a place name

Augusta, a feminine form of the name of the Roman Emperor Augustus, is also part of the original Latin names of many ancient places. As populations spread, they took the names with them.

In Australia

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

In Canada

• Augusta, Ontario
• North Augusta, Ontario
• South Augusta, Ontario

In Europe

Augusta alone

• Paphos, Cyprus
• Augusta (Italy), SicilyAugusta pronomen
• Augusta Treverorum: Trier, Germany
• Augusta Vindelicorum: Augsburg, Germany
• Augusta Perusia: Perugia, Italy
• Augusta Praetoria Salassorum: Aosta, Italy
• Augusta Taurinorum: Turin, Italy
• Augusta Raurica: Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland
• Augusta Traiana: Stara Zagora, BulgariaAugusta cognomen
• Bracara Augusta: Braga, Portugal
• Emerita Augusta: Mérida, Spain
• Caesar Augusta: Zaragoza, Spain

In the United States of America

• Augusta, Arkansas
• Augusta, Georgia
• Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters Tournament
• Augusta, Illinois
• Augusta, Kansas
• Augusta, Kentucky
• Augusta, Maine (capital city of Maine)
• Augusta, Michigan
• Augusta, Missouri
• Augusta, Montana
• Augusta, New York
• Augusta, New Jersey
• North Augusta, South Carolina
• Augusta, West Virginia
• Augusta, Wisconsin
• Augusta County, Virginia
• Augusta Township, Michigan
• Augusta Township, Minnesota

Augusta as a personal name

• Augusta of Saxe-Weimar (1811–1890), German Empress
• Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921), German Empress
• Augusta of Denmark (1580–1639), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
• Augusta of Cambridge (1822–1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772), later Princess of Wales
• Princess Augusta Charlotte of Wales (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
• "Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel The Richleighs of Tantamount
• Augusta (honorific): bestowed on females of the Imperial dynasties of Ancient Rome
• Josef Augusta, a Czech paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
• Josef Augusta, a Czech ice hockey player and coach
• Patrik Augusta, a Czech ice hockey player

Other meanings of Augusta

• Augusta (honorific), a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
• Augusta (plant)
• Augusta (beer), from Germany
• Historia Augusta, the Latin name of Augustan History, a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman Emperors of the 1st and 2nd century.
• Augusta (spider) is a spider genus (Araneidae)
• Augusta (comic), a long-running comic strip by Angus McGill and Dominic Poelsma
• Augusta (band), a classical folk rock band from Toronto, Canada.
• Augusta (cigar), a hard to find brand of cigar, manufactured in Brazil.
• Augusta Heritage Festival, an annual summer music and heritage festival in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

See also

• Agusta, the Italian helicopter manufacturer
• * List of Latin place names in Europe
• , U.S. Navy ships named Augusta

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