Noviomagus Reginorum
Coordinates: 50°50′13″N 0°46′48″W / 50.837°N 0.780°W
Noviomagus Reginorum was the Roman town which is today called Chichester, situated in the modern English county of West Sussex.
Noviomagus is a Latinization of a Brittonic placename meaning "new fields". It was given its epithet—variously Reginorum, Regnorum, Regnentium, & Regentium—in order to distinguish it from other places with the same name, including the Noviomagus in Kent. All of the names derive from the local Regini, a group among the Atrebates.
The settlement was first established as a winter fort for the Second Augustan Legion under Vespasian (the future emperor) shortly after the Roman invasion in AD 43. Their timber barrack blocks, supply stores, and military equipment have been excavated. The camp was located in the territory of the friendly Atrebates tribe and was only used for a few years before the army withdrew and the site was developed as a Romano-British civilian settlement. It served as the capital of the Civitas Reginorum, a client kingdom ruled by T. Claudius Cogidubnus. The Regnenses were either a sub-tribe of the Atrebates or simply the local people designated the 'people of the Kingdom' by the Roman administration. Cogidubnus almost certainly lived at the nearby Palace of Fishbourne. He is mentioned on the dedication stone of the temple to Neptune and Minerva found in Chichester. Other public buildings were also present: the public baths are beneath West Street, the amphitheatre under the cattle market and the basilica is thought to be beneath the cathedral.
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