Augusta

Augusta

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.

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), Sicily
*Historical name for the Croatian island Lastovo;Augusta 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, Bulgaria
*Augusta Suessionum: Soissons, France
*Augusta Viromanduorum: Saint-Quentin, France;Augusta 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, Iowa
*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-Cassel (1797-1889), later Duchess of Cambridge
* "Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel "The Richleighs of Tantamount"
* Josef Augusta, a Czech paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
* Josef Augusta (ice hockey coach), a Czech ice hockey player and coach
* Patrik Augusta, a Czech ice hockey player

Other meanings of Augusta

*254 Augusta, an asteroid.
**Augusta family, an asteroid family named after it.
*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 (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.

ee also

* Agusta, the Italian helicopter manufacturer
*
* USS "Augusta", U.S. Navy ships named "Augusta"


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