06-22-2006, 06:17 PM
You can strike your two British entries off the list.
There is no continuity of placename for either Castra Exploratorum (modern Netherby) or Pinnata Castra (which, in any case, is simply a Latinisation of a Greek term used by Ptolemy).
I must admit to being sceptical about your theory.
If you're researching continuity of placename from Roman times through to the present day, why restrict yourself to "Castra", which may not have been at all common in ancient times.
If a place was a fort or fortress, it was self-evident to anyone who needed to know, and they needn't have added the word castra. As far as I am aware, all of our "chester"s and "caster"s derive from Anglo-Saxon placenames. The Romans wouldn't (needn't) have used these terms as placenames, and the Saxons were simply indicating that they thought an ancient fortified place had stood there.
(I expect the same is true of your Arabic names, but I'm no expert in that field!)
There is no continuity of placename for either Castra Exploratorum (modern Netherby) or Pinnata Castra (which, in any case, is simply a Latinisation of a Greek term used by Ptolemy).
I must admit to being sceptical about your theory.
If you're researching continuity of placename from Roman times through to the present day, why restrict yourself to "Castra", which may not have been at all common in ancient times.
If a place was a fort or fortress, it was self-evident to anyone who needed to know, and they needn't have added the word castra. As far as I am aware, all of our "chester"s and "caster"s derive from Anglo-Saxon placenames. The Romans wouldn't (needn't) have used these terms as placenames, and the Saxons were simply indicating that they thought an ancient fortified place had stood there.
(I expect the same is true of your Arabic names, but I'm no expert in that field!)
