Coria
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Coria may refer to:
People
Places
Coria is a Brythonic equivalent of the Latin Curia
and may be used as a place-name in Roman Britain and elsewhere:
It may also refer to:
People
- Rodolfo CoriaRodolfo CoriaDr. Rodolfo Coria is an Argentine paleontologist.He is best known for having directed the field study and co-naming of the Argentinosaurus in 1993, and the Giganotosaurus , in 1996 among other landmark South American dinosaurs...
, Argentine paleontologist - Guillermo CoriaGuillermo CoriaGuillermo Sebastián Coria , nicknames include El Mago , is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up in the 2004 French Open...
, Argentine tennis player
Places
Coria is a Brythonic equivalent of the Latin Curia
Curia
A curia in early Roman times was a subdivision of the people, i.e. more or less a tribe, and with a metonymy it came to mean also the meeting place where the tribe discussed its affairs...
and may be used as a place-name in Roman Britain and elsewhere:
- Coria (Barochan Hill), Roman fort in Renfrewshire, Scotland
- Coria (Corbridge)Coria (Corbridge)Coria was a fort and town, located south of Hadrian's Wall, in the Roman province of Britannia. Its full Latin name is uncertain. Today it is known as Corchester or Corbridge Roman Site, adjoining Corbridge in the English county of Northumberland...
, Roman fort and town in Northumberland, England - Coria (Inveresk), Roman fort in Midlothian, Scotland
- Coria Soliliorum, a Roman town somewhere in Midland England
It may also refer to:
- Coria, CáceresCoria, CáceresCoria is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, with some 12,900 inhabitants as of 2009.-History:Coria was taken twice during the Reconquista, firstly after 1085. It was lost to the Almoravids just after 1109 and unsuccessfully besieged in 1138...
, municipality in Spain