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Lugdunum Batavorum was an Roman settlement in de province Germania Inferior near the present-day Katwijk.
The settlement was located along the Rhine, the northern border of the Roman Empire, the so called Limes (Latin for "border") and was named after the great Lugdunum (the present-day Lyon). The suffix Batavorum refers to the geographic location in the Roman Empire: near the tribe of the Batavians.
From the Renaissance on, the nearby city of Leiden was wrongly identified with this name. This left traces in several names, such as:[citation needed]
- in the Latin name of the Leiden University: Academia Lugduno Batava;
- the name of the Leiden football club LVV Lugdunum; and
- the originally Leiden based employment agency Luba Group (from Lugdunum Batavorum).
A better name would have been Matilo, since the homonymous Roman fortress was located near the Leiden residential area Roomburg.[who?]
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