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Panium – a humble and unremarked little town in Thrace

Pannonia – Hungary*

Patavium – Padua

Portus Lemanis – Port Lympne, Kent. One of the haunting lost cities of Roman Britain; once a bustling international port with a huge natural harbour, now no more than a few broken walls on a green hillside.

Puteoli – Pozzuoli

Sarmatia – see Scythia

Sarmatian Jazyges – the flat, rich, much-coveted pastureland of the Hungarian Plain, that lies between the Danube and the Tisza.

Scythia – Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and all points east*

Silestria – Northern Bulgaria*

Siluria – South Wales

Sirmium – Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia

Tanais, R – the River Don, in the Ukraine

Tergestus – Trieste

Teutoberg Forest – Much of present-day Germany. Scholarly consensus now is that the legions of Varus were destroyed near to Osnabruck, north west of the hills still called the Teutoburger Wald.

Tibur – Tivoli

Toletum – Toledo

Trasimene, L – Trasimeno, Lago. The massacre took place between the two villages known to this day as Ossaia and Sanguineto – ‘the place of bones’ and ‘the place of blood.’ Any visitor there will soon understand the brilliance of Hannibal’s huge-scale ambush and use of landscape.

Vangiones – Worms

Vindobona – Vienna