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Augusta, a feminine form of the name of the Roman Emperor Augustus, is also part of the original Latin names of many ancient places named after him, as well as their modern descendants and later places given that name in honor of him or some other notable of his name.

Augusta can mean:

Places

In Australia

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

In Pacifica

• Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville Island

In Canada

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

In Europe

• Augusta (Italy), Sicily
• Augusta Praetoria Salassorum: Aosta, Italy
• Augusta Raurica: Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland
• Augusta Suessionum: Soissons, France
• Augusta Taurinorum: Turin, Italy
• Augusta Traiana: Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
• Augusta Treverorum: Trier, Germany
• Augusta Vindelicorum: Augsburg, Germany
• Augusta Viromanduorum: Saint-Quentin, France
• Bracara Augusta: Braga, Portugal
• Emerita Augusta: Mérida, Spain
• Isca Augusta
• Augusta Perusia: Perugia, Italy
• Caesar Augusta: Zaragoza, Spain
• Historical name for the Croatian island Lastovo

In the United States of America

• Augusta, Arkansas
• Augusta, Georgia
  • Augusta Mall
  • Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters Tournament
  • Augusta Regional Airport
  • Augusta State University (formerly "Augusta College")
  • Riverwalk Augusta
• Augusta, Illinois
• Augusta, Iowa
• Augusta, Kansas
• Augusta, Kentucky
  • Augusta College
• Augusta, Maine (capital city of Maine)
  • University of Maine at Augusta
• Augusta, Michigan
• Augusta, Missouri
  • Augusta AVA, a viticultural area
• Augusta, Montana
• Augusta, New York
• Augusta, New Jersey
• North Augusta, South Carolina
• Augusta, West Virginia
• Augusta, Wisconsin
• Augusta County, Virginia
• Augusta Charter Township, Michigan
• Augusta Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
• Fort Augusta, Pennsylvania
• Mount Augusta, Alaska

Sports

• Augusta GreenJackets, a baseball team
• Augusta Lynx, an ice hockey team
• Augusta Colts, an indoor football team
• Augusta International Raceway, Georgia
• Augusta FireBall, a soccer team
• Augusta Groove, a basketball team

People

Royalty

• Augusta (honorific), a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires
• Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822–1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Augusta of Denmark (1580–1639), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
• Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772), later Princess of Wales
• Augusta of Saxe-Weimar (1811–1890), German Empress
• Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921), German Empress
• Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
• Princess Augusta of Bavaria
• Princess Augusta of Cambridge
• Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737-1813), later Duchess of Brunswick
• Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel (1797-1889), later Duchess of Cambridge
• Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768-1840)
• Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales

Other

• Augusta Holmès, French composer
• Augusta Lundin (1840-1919) fashion designer
• Augusta Read Thomas, American composer
• Augusta Smith opera singer
• Augusta von Fersen (1754-1846)
• Augusta Webster, English poetess
• Augusta, Lady Gregory
• Josef Augusta, a Czech paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
• Patrik Augusta, a Czech ice hockey player

Fictional characters

• "Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel The Richleighs of Tantamount

Roman roads

• Via Augusta
• Via Claudia Augusta

Science

• 254 Augusta, an asteroid.
  • Augusta family, an asteroid family named after it
• Augusta (spider) is a spider genus (Araneidae)

Other

• Historia Augusta, the Latin name of Augustan History, a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman Emperors of the 1st and 2nd century.
• Augusta Heritage Festival, an annual summer music and heritage festival in the U.S. state of West Virginia
• The Augusta Chronicle
• Legio II Augusta, a Roman legion
• Augusta (album)
• Lancia Augusta, an automobile

See also

• USS Augusta, U.S. Navy ships named Augusta
• AUST (disambiguation)
• Augustus (disambiguation)
• Agusta (disambiguation)

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From Wikitravel

There's more than one place called Augusta:

Australia

• Augusta (Western Australia) - a town in Western Australia

Italy

• Augusta (Sicily) - a town in Sicily

United States of America

• Augusta (Arkansas) - a town in Arkansas
• Augusta (Georgia) - a town in Georgia
• Augusta (Kansas) - a town in Kansas
• Augusta (Kentucky) - a town in Kentucky
• Augusta (Maine) - a town in Maine
• Augusta (New York) - a town in New York
• Augusta (Wisconsin) - a town in Wisconsin

See also:

• North Augusta - a town in South Carolina

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

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Augusta

Wikipedia

English

Proper noun

Augusta

1. A city in east central Georgia, USA also see Disgusta.
2. The capital city of the state of Maine, USA
3. A female given name, feminine of Augustus.

Translations

Danish

Proper noun

Augusta

1. A female given name of Latin origin.

French

Proper noun

Augusta

1. A female given name of Latin origin.

Latin

Proper noun

Augusta

1. An honorific title given to the wives of Roman Emperors

Swedish

Proper noun

Augusta

1. A female given name of Latin origin.

From Wikispecies

Augusta may mean:

• In the Regnum Animalia - Augusta Cambridge, 1877 (Arachnida : Araneidae)
• In the Regnum Plantae - Augusta Pohl (Magnoliophyta : Rubiaceae)