Augusta, a feminine form of the name of the Roman Emperor Augustus, is also part of the original Latin names of many ancient places named after him, as well as their modern descendants and later places given that name in honor of him or some other notable of his name.

Augusta can mean:

Places

In Australia

• Augusta, Western Australia
• Port Augusta, South Australia
• Shire of Augusta-Margaret River

In Canada

• Augusta, Ontario
• North Augusta, Ontario

In Europe

• Augusta, England, see Roman London
• Augusta, Sicily, Italy
• Augusta Praetoria Salassorum, Aosta, Italy
• Augusta Raurica, Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland
• Augusta Suessionum, Soissons, France
• Augusta Taurinorum, Turin, Italy
• Augusta Traiana, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
• Augusta Treverorum, Trier, Germany
• Augusta Vindelicorum, Augsburg, Germany
• Augusta Viromanduorum, Saint-Quentin, France
• Bracara Augusta, Braga, Portugal
• Emerita Augusta, M rida, Spain
• Isca Augusta
• Augusta Perusia: Perugia, Italy
• Caesar Augusta: Zaragoza, Spain
• Historical name for the Croatian island Lastovo

In Asia

• Augusta Euphratensis, a Roman province in Syria under Diocletian

In the United States

• Augusta, Arkansas
• Augusta, Georgia
  • Augusta National Golf Club ("Augusta"), home of The Masters Tournament
• Augusta, Illinois
• Augusta, Kansas
• Augusta, Kentucky
• Augusta, Maine (capital city of Maine)
• Augusta, Michigan
• Augusta, Missouri
  • Augusta AVA, a viticultural area
• Augusta, Montana
• Augusta, New York
• Augusta, New Jersey
• North Augusta, South Carolina
• Augusta, West Virginia
• Augusta, Wisconsin
• Augusta County, Virginia
• Augusta Charter Township, Michigan
• Augusta Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
• Fort Augusta, Pennsylvania
• Mount Augusta, Alaska

Elsewhere

• Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville Island

People

Royalty

• Augusta (honorific), a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires
• Augusta of Denmark (1580 1639), Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
• Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719 1772), later Princess of Wales
• Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737 1813), later Duchess of Brunswick
• Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (1768 1840)
• Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel (1797 1889), later Duchess of Cambridge
• Augusta of Saxe-Weimar (1811 1890), German Empress
• Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822 1916), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858 1921), German Empress

• Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenb ttel
• Princess Augusta of Bavaria
• Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales

Other

• St. Augusta of Treviso, 2nd century virgin martyr
• Augusta Holm s, French composer
• Augusta Lundin (1840 1919) fashion designer
• Augusta Read Thomas, American composer
• Augusta Smith opera singer
• Augusta von Fersen (1754 1846)
• Augusta Webster, English poetess
• Lady Augusta Gregory
• Josef Augusta, a Czech paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer
• Patrik Augusta, a Czech ice hockey player

Fictional characters

• "Lady Augusta", a character in Barbara Willard's novel The Richleighs of Tantamount
• Lady Augusta Bracknell, a character in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest
• Aunt Augusta, a character in Grahame Greene's novel Travels with My Aunt
• Aunt Augusta, a character in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster novels
• Augusta Longbottom, an elderly relative of a character in the Harry Potter books

Roman roads

• Via Augusta
• Via Claudia Augusta

Science

• 254 Augusta, an asteroid.
  • Augusta family, an asteroid family named after it
• Augusta (spider), a monotypic spider genus in the Araneidae family
• Augusta (plant genus), a genus in the Rubiaceae family

Other

• Augusta Apartment Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
• Historia Augusta, the Latin name of Augustan History, a half-mockumentary biography of the Roman Emperors of the 1st and 2nd century.
• Augusta Heritage Festival, an annual summer music and heritage festival in the U.S. state of West Virginia
• Legio II Augusta, a Roman legion
• Augusta (album)
• Lancia Augusta, an automobile
• Sheringham Lifeboat Augusta of Sheringham, Norfolk
• Augusta (grape), an Italian grape variety

See also

• USS Augusta, U.S. Navy ships named Augusta
• Aust, a village in Gloucestershire, England, claimed to be derived from Augusta
• Augustus (disambiguation)
• Agusta (disambiguation)

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