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Authentic City Names - The Last Roman

Inspired by the "Better City Names" mod for Rome II by SilentResident, I present: Authentic City Names for The Last Roman! And if you like this, I have made versions for the Grand Campaign and Age of Charlemagne as well.

This mod is pretty much what it says on the tin: better, more authentic city names for the campaign map and battles. While trying to come up with suggestions for Augustusng's "Authentic Faction Names" (which this mod should work well with), I got interested in the names for the cities themselves, and so I started trying to see how many of them were accurate. For the Grand Campaign, most of them were, but a number used names that were either too old or too new, not appropriate for the faction, designated a more minor city, or described an area rather than a specific city. Names in The Last Roman were a little more difficult, as it appears CA used a number of modern names that would still have been Latin or weren't appropriate for the culture. As with the GC version, here's my list of changes and explanations:

• Lemonum -> Pictavium: Latin version of Celtic name for modern Poitiers
  
• Narbonne -> Narbona: Anachronistic name
  
• Nimes -> Nemausus: Anachronistic name
  
• Vapincum -> Eburodunum: At the time, this was likely a more prominent city
  
• Nikaia -> Nicaea: Latin version of Greek name
  
• Vienne -> Lugdunum: Modern-day Lyon, the actual capital of the Burgundians
  
• Illici -> Dianium: At the time, this was likely a more prominent city
  
• Aeminium -> Conimbriga: At the time, this was likely a more prominent city
  
• Astorga -> Asturica: Anachronistic name
  
• Tolentum -> Toletum: I don't know why CA added the "n" so I removed it
  
• Rusaddir -> Mlila: Berber name for a city owned by the Mauri
  
• Pomaria -> Tlemsan: Anachronistic name
  
• Cirta -> Constantina: CA had it right in the GC, not sure why they changed it back.
  
• Patavium -> Tarvisium: At the time, this may have been a more prominent city, as Patavium had been laid waste by the Huns
  
• Lissus -> Olcinium: At the time, this may have been a more prominent city,

• Ian Mladjov's Maps[sites.google.com]
  
• Wikipedia (both English and non-English)
  
• Wiktionary

This is for entertainment, as I am by no means a historian, archaeologist, or etymologist. These names came largely from online research, and as such could be subject to errors or biases found there. Neither changing a name nor leaving the vanilla version is meant to be a slight to any culture or nationality. That being said, if you have constructive criticism, feel free to let me know here and/or in the thread at TWC.