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And I don't think many of them will forget that English towns ending in "-chester" or "-caster" Manchester, Doncaster etc were once Roman forts, going back to the Latin word castra, or "camp".

The Guardian World News 2011

In laying out military settlements with permanent fortifications, which were established along the expanding frontiers, the Romans followed the same pattern (the so-called castra stativa).

THE CITY MOSHE BARASCH 1968

Unfortunately, a huge swath of history got cut out of Tell Qa, which explains that the modern town was founded on a "castra" style encampment following the destruction of the prior town after a Tharbrian raid.

James Mishler Answers All James Maliszewski 2008

Chester is the Roman "castra," camp, and where the name occurs across Britain, indicates with undeviating fidelity that there, in remote decades, Roman legions camped and the

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

KASTRIOTI derives from Romans military words "castrum" and "castra", which is assumed to have taken from Ethrusts.

Heir of Skanderbeg! Walter Jon Williams 2009

Puns are sometimes serious factors in politics; witness the Castratus ad castra, which made a general of the army of Narses; witness: Barbari et Barberini; witness: Tu es

Les Miserables 2008

[294] Rara fides, probitasque viris qui castra sequuntur.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

"The words used ... identify it with the camps (castra) that in the future Roman legionary soldiers will build at the end of the day's march -- castra, which will be built all over Europe and have often left their marks on the names of the cities that occupy those sites -- Lancaster, Manchester, Worchester."

No Place Like Rome 2007

One knows what she means: place-names ending in "- chester" were once the sites of Roman camps, or castra, and some locations are much more ancient even than that.

That Blessed Plot, That Enigmatic Isle 2003

One knows what she means: place-names ending in "- chester" were once the sites of Roman camps, or castra, and some locations are much more ancient even than that.

That Blessed Plot, That Enigmatic Isle 2003