Britannia (disambiguation)

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Britannia is the Latin name for the island of Great Britain, later used for the female personification of the United Kingdom.

Britannia may also refer to:

Places

Britain

• Great Britain, an island
• United Kingdom, a country
• Provincia Britannia, the Latin name for Roman Britain
  • Britannia Inferior, a subdivision of Roman Britain created c. 197 AD, based in York
  • Britannia Superior, a subdivision of Roman Britain created c. 197 AD, based in London
  • Britannia Prima, a subdivision of Roman Britain from about 312 AD
  • Britannia Secunda, a subdivision of Roman Britain from about 312 AD
• Britannia, Lancashire, a suburb of Bacup, Lancashire
  • Britannia Coco-nut Dancers (AKA Nutters), a troupe of Lancastrian clog dancers who perform every Easter in Bacup
  • Britannia railway station, 1881–1917
• Britannia Fields, a public open space near Britannia Road, Burbage, Leicestershire
• Britannia Park, a former name of The American Adventure Theme Park, Derbyshire, England

Canada

• Britannia, Calgary, a residential neighbourhood
• Britannia, Newfoundland and Labrador, a settlement
• Britannia, Ontario (disambiguation), various places
• Britannia, Ottawa (AKA Britannia Bay or Britannia Village), a group of neighbourhoods in Bay Ward
• Britannia Beach, British Columbia, an unincorporated community near Vancouver
  • Britannia Mine Museum (formerly BC Museum of Mining), a nonprofit organization based in Britannia Beach
• Britannia Heights, a neighbourhood in Bay Ward in west end of Ottawa, Canada
• Britannia Landfill (formerly, Britannia Hills Golf Course; subsequently, BraeBen Golf Course), a garbage dump located in Mississauga, Ontario
• Britannia Range (Canada), a subrange of the North Shore Mountains
• Britannia Road, Mississauga, Peel Region, Ontario, a numbered road; see List of numbered roads in Peel Region
• Britannia Road, Huntsville, Ontario
• Britannia Youngstown, Edmonton, a residential neighbourhood
• Rural Municipality of Britannia No. 502, Saskatchewan

Other

• Britannia, Mauritius, a village in Savanne district, Mauritius
• Britannia Bay, a small town in West Coast District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa
• Britannia Park, a forest and recreation area in Israel
• Britannia Park (Girl Guides Victoria), a campsite located near Yarra Junction, Victoria, Australia
• Britannia Range (Antarctica), a mountain range
• Britannia Village, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of the city of Taunton
• Mount Britannia, a mountain on Rongé Island, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica

Structures

• Britannia, Richmond, London, a public house and Grade II listed building
• Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, a Grade II listed building
• Britannia Barracks, Norwich, a military installation associated with the Royal Norfolk Regiment 1997–1959, since incorporated into Norwich Prison
• Britannia Bridge, a bridge connecting the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales
• Britannia Bridge, another name for Runcorn Railway Bridge across the River Mersey in England
• Britannia Centre Spandau, a location which provides shopping, welfare, employment and broadcasting facilities for the British military community in Berlin
• Britannia Foundry, a heritage-listed converted foundry, built c.  1887, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Britannia Hut, a mountain hut of the Swiss Alpine Club, located south of Saas-Almagell in the canton of Valais
• Britannia Manor, Austin, Texas, residence of game designer Richard Garriott, named after the fictional realm Britannia in the Ultima series of video games
• Britannia Monument (AKA Nelson's Monument), a memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
• Britannia Music Hall (AKA The Panopticon or The Britannia Panopticon), Glasgow, Scotland, the oldest surviving music hall in the world
• Britannia Stop Lock, a canal feature in the Limehouse Cut in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
• Britannia Theatre, a theatre in Hoxton, London 1841–1900
• London Britannia Airport, a name proposed in 2013 for a six-runway airport on an artificial island in the River Thames estuary

Education

• Britannia High School, a former secondary school in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England; see Defunct schools in Sandwell
• Britannia Royal Naval College, the Royal Navy's officer training establishment at Dartmouth, Devon, England
• Britannia Secondary School, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Transport

Land

• Bristol Britannia, one model of the Bristol Type 603 motor car manufactured by UK company Bristol Cars 1982–94
• Britannia, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives built for and operated by Great Western Railway 1891–1915
• Britannia Class, BR Standard Class 7 steam locomotives built for and operated by British Railways from 1951
  • BR standard class 7 70000 Britannia, the first Britannia Class steam locomotive
  • List of BR 'Britannia' Class locomotives
• Britannia (cyclecar), a 4-wheeled vehicle made 1913–14 by Britannia Engineering Co. Ltd, Nottingham, England
• Britannia Points Halt railway station, a former conditional stop on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent, England
• Britannia railway station, in Britannia, Lancashire 1881–1917
• Britannia railway station, Melbourne, Australia
• Britannia Roundabout, an intersection near the city centre of Adelaide, Australia
• Namaqualand 0-4-2T Britannia, a South African steam locomotive of 1905

Water

• Britannia (ship), multiple sailing ships
• Britannia-class steamship, wooden paddlers of Cunard Lines carrying transatlantic passengers and mail, named after the first such ship (1840)
• Britannia Seaways (formerly Tor Britannia), a ro-ro cargo ship of 2000 operated by DFDS Seaways
• HMS Britannia (disambiguation), multiple Royal Navy warships
• HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht), a British royal racing yacht 1893–1936
• HMY Britannia, a British royal yacht 1954–97
• K1 Britannia, a 1994 replica of the 1893 royal racing yacht HMY Britannia
• MV Britannia (2015), a cruise ship of the P&O Cruises fleet
• RMS Britannia, an ocean liner of the British Cunard Steamship Lines
• SS Britannia (disambiguation), multiple steamships

Air

• Bristol Britannia, an airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company from 1952
  • 1958 BOAC Bristol Britannia crash, an aircraft accident
  • 1967 Nicosia Britannia disaster, an aircraft accident involving a Bristol Britannia
• Britannia Airways, a UK-based charter airline 1961–2005
  • Britannia Airways Flight 105, a 1966 aircraft accident
  • Britannia Airways Flight 226A, a 1999 aircraft accident
• Britannia Trophy, a British award presented by the Royal Aero Club for aviators accomplishing the most meritorious performance in aviation during the previous year

Organizations

• Britannia (former building society), a British mutual building society 1856–2009
• Britannia Clothing Company, a British clothing company
• Britannia Hotels, a hotel group based in UK
  • Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, operated by Britannia Hotels, a Grade II listed building
• Britannia Industries, a food-products corporation based in Bangalore, India, known for Britannia biscuits
• Britannia Row Studios, a recording studio in Fulham, London
• Britannia Staff Union, a trade union in the United Kingdom
• Britannia United Church, a United Church of Canada congregation in Ottawa, Canada

Sport

• Berliner Thor- und Fussball Club Britannia, a German football team, renamed Berliner SV 1892 after the First World War
• Britannia Challenge Cup, a rowing event for men's coxed fours at Henley Royal Regatta, England
• Britannia Football Club, a predecessor of Collingwood Football Club (Australian rules), Victoria, Australia
• Britannia Posen, a German association football club active c. 1909 – c. 1920
• Britannia Stadium, home of English association football club Stoke City F.C.
• Britannia Stakes, a flat handicap mile horse race for three-year-old colts and geldings run annually at Royal Ascot, England
• Britannia Yacht Club, a private social club, yacht club and tennis club based in Britannia, Ottawa, Ontario
• FC Britannia XI, an association football club which plays in the Gibraltar Premier Division
• Lucha Britannia, a London-based Mexican wrestling promotion based in Bethnal Green, London since 2006
• SV Britannia (Sport Vereniging Britannia), an association football club in Aruba

Culture, media and entertainment

• Britannia, an alias of the fictional character Sage (comics) in the Marvel Comics universe
• Britannia, one design of the Geographic Beanie Babies series of dolls by Ty, Inc., introduced in 1997 and directed at the UK market
• Britannia, a topographical and historical survey of Great Britain and Ireland by William Camden, first published in Latin in 1586, and in many later expanded editions and translations down to 1806
• Britannia, a series of BBC TV documentaries; see List of Britannia documentaries
  • Birds Britannia, a 2010 documentary series about British birds
  • Comics Britannia, a 2007 documentary series about British comics (periodicals)
• Britannia (board game), a strategy board game introduced in 1986
• Britannia (series), a series of novels by M J Trow and Richard Denham
• Britannia, a journal concerned with Romano-British and kindred studies, published annually by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
• Britannia (Scarrow novel), a 2015 novel by Simon Scarrow, the fourteenth volume of his Eagle Series
• Britannia (Ultima series), a fictional location in Ultima (series) video games
• Britannia Awards, presented by BAFTA Los Angeles since 1989, to mark connections between the Hollywood and British production and entertainment business communities
• Britannia High, a British musical drama television series premiered in 2008
  • Britannia High (soundtrack), a 2008 album
  • List of Britannia High songs
• Britannia Hospital, a 1982 black comedy film by British director Lindsay Anderson
• Britannia Illustrata, a 1707–09 map plate folio of parts of Great Britain
• Britannia Music Club, a British mail-order company (1969–2007) owned by PolyGram which sponsored the Brit Awards
• Britannia of Billingsgate, a 1933 British musical comedy film
• "Britannia Rag", a song recorded by Winifred Atwell in 1952
• Britannia Unchained, a political book written by several British Conservative Party MPs, published 2012
• Columbia & Britannia a 2009 anthology of alternate history stories edited by Adam Chamberlain and Brian A. Dixon
• Holy Britannian Empire, a fictional superpower in the anime series Code Geass
• Magna Britannia, a topographical and historical survey of some English counties by antiquarian brothers Daniel and Samuel Lysons 1806–22
• Morgan Spurlock's New Britannia, a British satirical entertainment series and talk show premiered in 2012
• "Rule, Britannia!", a British patriotic song set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740, whose title has been alluded to and parodied:
  • "Cool Britannia", a song on Gorilla (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band album) of 1967
  • Cool Britannia, a term applied to some aspects of British popular culture in the 1990s
  • Fool Britannia, a hidden camera sketch series on British TV network ITV, premiered in 2012
  • "Rue Britannia", a 1960–61 story arc in the animated TV series Rocky and His Friends
  • Rule Britannia (novel), of 1962 by Daphne du Maurier
  • Rule Britannia (TV series), a British documentary series premiered in 2009
  • Ruled Britannia, an alternate history novel from 2002 by Harry Turtledove

Other

• Acleris britannia (AKA Brittania Moth), a species of moth in the Tortricidae family, native to North America
• Aristobulus of Britannia, a saint of Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity, named by Hippolytus of Rome as one of the Seventy Disciples, and the first bishop in Roman Britain
• Britannia (coin), British bullion coins directed towards collectors' and investment markets, first issued in 1987
• Britannia Catchments Group, a Quaternary lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata or other definable geological units) present in all parts of Great Britain
• Britannia metal, an alloy of the pewter type, consisting of tin, antimony, and copper, first produced 1769–70
• Britannia silver, an alloy of silver containing a small proportion of a base metal such as copper, defined by an English Act of Parliament of 1697

See also

• Britain (disambiguation)
• Britânia Sport Club, a former association football club from Curitiba, Brasil (1914–71), a predecessor club of Colorado Esporte Clube
• Britannic (disambiguation)
• British (disambiguation)
• Brittain (disambiguation)
• Brittan (disambiguation)
• Brittany (disambiguation)
• Britten (disambiguation)
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• All pages with titles containing Britannia