Augusta

Augusta was a Roman imperial honorific title given to empresses and women of imperial families. It was the feminine form of Augustus. It may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Augusta, Western Australia

Brazil

• Rua Augusta (São Paulo)

Canada

• Augusta, Ontario
• North Augusta, Ontario
• Augusta Street (Hamilton, Ontario)

France

• Augusta Suessionum ("Augusta of the Suessii"), Soissons
• Augusta Viromanduorum ("Augusta of the Viromandui"), Saint-Quentin

Germany

• Augusta Treverorum ("Augusta of the Treveri") or Trier
• Augusta Vangionum ("Augusta of the Vangiones") or Worms
• Augusta Vindelicorum ("Augusta of the Vindelici") or Augsburg

Italy

• Augusta, Sicily
• Augusta Praetoria Salassorum ("Praetorian Augusta of the Salassi") or Aosta
• Augusta Taurinorum ("Augusta of the Taurini") or Turin
• Perugia or Augusta Perusia

Spain

• Emerita Augusta, Mérida, Spain
• Caesar Augusta, Zaragoza, Spain

United States

• Augusta, Arkansas
• Augusta Charter Township, Michigan
• Augusta County, Virginia
• Augusta, Georgia, the most-populous city in the U.S. with this name
  • Augusta National Golf Club ("Augusta"), home of the Masters Tournament
• Augusta, Illinois
• Augusta, Indiana
• Augusta, Indianapolis, 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
• Augusta Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
• Augusta, West Virginia
• Augusta, Wisconsin
• Fort Augusta, Pennsylvania
• Mount Augusta, Alaska
• North Augusta, South Carolina
• St. Augusta, Minnesota
• Sipapu Bridge, Utah, formerly named as 'Augusta'

Elsewhere

• Augusta Euphratensis, Late Roman and Byzantine province in Syrian region
• Augusta Raurica ("Rauric Augusta"), Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland
• Augusta Traiana ("Trajan Augusta"), Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
• Bracara Augusta, Braga, Portugal
• Isca Augusta ("Augustan Isca"), Caerleon, Wales
• Londinium (former name Augusta), London, England
• Lastovo (former name Augusta), a Croatian island
• 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
• Augusta, a monotypic spider genus in the family Araneidae with the only species Augusta glyphica
• Augusta (plant), a genus in the family Rubiaceae
• Ponera augusta, a species of ant

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 lifeboat, Sheringham, Norfolk, England

Other uses

• Augusta Apartment Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., US
• Augustan History (Latin: Historia Augusta), a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman emperors of the 1st and 2nd century
• Augusta Heritage Festival, a festival in West Virginia, US
• Legio II Augusta, a Roman legion
• Augusta (album), by Willie Nelson and Don Cherry
• Lancia Augusta, an automobile
• Augusta (grape), an Italian grape variety
• The Augustas, a homemade movie about towns named "Augusta"

See also

• Shire of Augusta Margaret River, Australia
• Augusta Euphratensis ("Euphratean Augusta"), a Roman province in Syria under Diocletian
• Aust, a village in Gloucestershire, England, claimed to be derived from Augusta
• Augustus (disambiguation)
• August (disambiguation)
• Augusts (given name)
• Agusta (disambiguation)
• Port Augusta (disambiguation)
• Agusta, later AgustaWestland, a helicopter manufacturer.