Cornovii

British tribe and civitas. The Cornovii are a surprisingly obscure tribe, given that they lay well within the boundaries of the Roman province and their civitas-capital was one of the largest towns in Britain. The civitas encompassed the modern counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Cheshire. More or less at the heart of this territory lay the civitas-capital of Viriconium (Wroxeter), which may have replaced, and borrowed the name of, the nearby Iron Age hill-fort on the Wrekin.