TRAJECTUM
TRAJECTUM in North Gallia, is not mentioned in any Roman writing before the Itin. of Antoninus.
It was on the Roman road which ran along the Rhine from Lugdunum Batavorum, and the site is
Utrecht in the kingdom of the
Netherlands, at the bifurcation of the old Rhine and the
Vecht. The modern name contains the Roman name abbreviated, and the part U seems to be a corruption of the word
Oude (Vetus); but D'Anville observes that the name is written
Utrecht as early as 870.
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