Augusta

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Augusta may refer to:

Places

In Australia

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

In Canada

• Augusta, Ontario
• North Augusta, Ontario

In Europe

• Augusta, Sicily, Italy
• Augusta Praetoria Salassorum ("Praetorian Augusta of the Salassi"), Aosta, Italy
• Augusta Raurica ("Rauric Augusta"), Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland
• Augusta Suessionum ("Augusta of the Suessii"), Soissons, France
• Augusta Taurinorum ("Augusta of the Taurini"), Turin, Italy
• Augusta Traiana ("Trajan Augusta"), Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
• Augusta Treverorum ("Augusta of the Treveri"), Trier, Germany
• Augusta Vindelicorum ("Augusta of the Vindelici"), Augsburg, Germany
• Augusta Viromanduorum ("Augusta of the Viromandui"), Saint-Quentin, France
• Bracara Augusta, Braga, Portugal
• Emerita Augusta, Mérida, Spain
• Isca Augusta ("Augustan Isca"), Caerleon, Wales
• Augusta Perusia: Perugia, Italy
• Caesar Augusta: Zaragoza, Spain
• Augusta, a former name of Londinium, London, England
• Augusta, a former name of the Croatian island Lastovo
• Augusta, old Italian name for Augsburg

In Asia

• Augusta Euphratensis ("Euphratean Augusta"), a Roman province in Syria under Diocletian

In the United States

• Augusta, Arkansas
• Augusta, Georgia
  • Augusta National Golf Club ("Augusta"), home of the Masters Tournament
• Augusta, Illinois
• Augusta, Indiana
• Augusta, Kansas
• Augusta, Kentucky
• Augusta, Maine (capital city of Maine)
• Augusta, Michigan
• Augusta, Minnesota
• Augusta, Missouri
  • Augusta AVA, a viticultural area
• Augusta, Montana
• Augusta, New Jersey
• Augusta, New York
• 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

Elsewhere

• Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville Island

People

• Augusta (honorific), a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires
• Augusta (name), a given name and surname

Roman roads

• Via Augusta
• Via Claudia Augusta

Science

• 254 Augusta, an asteroid.
  • Augusta family, an asteroid family named after it
• Augusta, a monotypic spider genus in the Araneidae family with the only species Augusta glyphica
• Augusta (plant), a genus in the Rubiaceae family

Ships

• USS Augusta, U.S. Navy ships named Augusta
• HMS Augusta, Royal Navy ships named Augusta
• Princess Augusta (ship), a British ship wrecked in 1738
• Augusta (Lifeboat), a private lifeboat which was stationed in the town of Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk

Other

• Augusta Apartment Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
• 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
• Legio II Augusta, a Roman legion
• Augusta (album), by Willie Nelson and Don Cherry
• Lancia Augusta, an automobile
• Sheringham Lifeboat Augusta of Sheringham, Norfolk
• Augusta (grape), an Italian grape variety

See also

• Aust, a village in Gloucestershire, England, claimed to be derived from Augusta
• Augustus (disambiguation)
• Agusta (disambiguation)