Praesidium
Praesidium the name of several fortified places established by the Romans.
1.
In Lusitania, on the Douro. (Itin. Ant. p. 428.)
2.
In Baetica, on the road from the mouth of the Anas to Emerita (Ib. 431); thought by some to be S. Lucar de Guadiana.
3.
In Gallaecia, not far from the Douro. (Ib. 422.)
4.
In Britannia Romana, in the territory of the Cornavii (Not. Imp.), supposed to be Warwick. (Camden, p. 602.) [T.H.D]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.