THE MEDIEVAL ERA 1 Æthelberht of Kent 2 St Hild 3 Lindisfarne 4 William Rufus 5 John 6 13th 7 Master James of St George 8 Ely 9 Owain Glyndŵr 10 Pontefract
GLOBAL CITIES 1 Prague 2 Lord Byron 3 Paris, called Lutetia by the Romans, from the word lutum – mud 4 Rome. Monte Testaccio is a huge ancient Roman rubbish tip of shards of discarded amphorae used to store and transport olive oil 5 Madrid. Gato is a nickname for a Madrileño, from the traditional story of a lithe soldier who, during the 1085 Christian attack on the Moorish stronghold of Magerit, scampered up a wall and put up the Christian flag. He became known as El Gato – ‘the cat’ 6 Amsterdam 7 Dublin 8 Split. The citadel known as Diocletian’s Palace was built from the late third century in preparation for that emperor’s retirement 9 Florence 10 Lisbon. The name of the Roman settlement Olisipo was a corruption of Allis Ubbo – ‘port of enchantment’ – used by the Phoenicians for the fortified base they founded there in the seventh century BC