I'm asking that, since i just noticed it was established almost 100 years after the start of EB![]()
I'm asking that, since i just noticed it was established almost 100 years after the start of EB![]()
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A roman colony was esablished there in 189bc, that doesn't mean the city didn't exist before that. As far as i'm aware it used to be called Felsina and was a Etruscan town until the Boii settled the region.
Could possibly change the name to whatever the Boii called the place but i think Bononia was what they called it, sounds pretty celtic anyway,
Last edited by bobbin; 10-20-2009 at 14:59.
Yeah it could be... That's why i asked... Was it costumary that Romans didn't change the name of a newly established city?
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Well, city names were certainly Latinized like the three examples given above... I cannot think of too many examples of the Roamns completely changing the name of a city (except in extreme cases like the period where Jerusalem was renamed Aelia Capitolina).
As for Bononia I am sure that, like everything in EB, settlement names have been extensively researched and are in the language of the native inhabitants at the start of the game.
More often than not the Romans would maintain the native settlement and then gradually transfer the inhabitants to a settlement which incorporated Roman and Native elements into the name (for example the city of Augustdonum in Gaul, August-from Augustus and Donum-Gallic word for city). This is one of the reasons so many Celtic names survive in regions today (Bohemia-Boii, Auvergne-Averni etc.) Only i a few cases were names of settlements completely changed, often to destroy the memory of the previous occupants, such as Carthage which was re-founded by Gracchus but reverted to Carthage soon after, or Jerusalem which which became Aelia Capitolina under Hadrian in an attempt to break Jewish nationalism.
One problem with Bonnonia is that historical accounts an archaeological evience from the period suggests that the Cisalpine Celts did not construct Oppida or other heavily urbanised settlements, so Bonnonia may be the only suitable term for the settlement in this region.
If anyone has any more accurate info please correct me (I have to write about Oppida development soon)
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