Claudiopolis () is the name of a number of ancient cities named after Roman emperor
Claudius
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; ; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54), or Claudius, was a Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Nero Claudius Drusus, Drusus and Ant ...
or another person bearing that name (in the case of Cluj-Napoca), notably:
; in Turkey
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Claudiopolis (Bithynia)
Bithynium or Bithynion () was an ancient city in Bithynia. Its site is occupied by the modern town of Bolu, Asiatic Turkey.
History
Strabo describes Bithynium as lying above Tius and it possessed the country around Salone or Salon, which was a g ...
Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...
, a city in Romania
* The ancient town of
Cyrene, Libya
Cyrene, also sometimes anglicization of names, anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greeks, ancient Greek Greek colonization, colony and ancient Romans, Roman Cities of the Roman Empire, city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in Nor ...
, renamed after 262 AD, in honor of the 3rd-century Roman emperor
Claudius II
Marcus Aurelius Claudius "Gothicus" (10 May 214 – August/September 270), also known as Claudius II, was Roman emperor from 268 to 270. During his reign he fought successfully against the Alemanni and decisively defeated the Goths at the Batt ...