Camelot

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 674

Camelot, a name applied in the medieval romances to the splendid 'City of Legions' which grew up out of the permanent quarters of the Second Augusta Legion at Caerleon-upon-Usk (q.v.), but was built earlier by the mythical Belinus. The name is familiar to readers of Tennyson.

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