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 VINDINUM. Gallia, is mentioned in the Maritime Itin. after Ux- antis and Sina or Sena. Middle age documents prove that the island oiBelle-ile was once named Gue- del, and this is the name Vindilis, the interchan£;e of Gu or G and W or V beinsc common. [ Vapin- CUM.] Though this is the only evidence, it is suffi- cient, for the names agree, and Belle-ile is not likely to have been omitted in the Itin., when smaller islands along the coast are mentioned. [G. L.] VINDINUM. [SuiNDiNUM.] VINDIUS MONS {Omv^iov opos, Ptol. vii. 1. § 28), a chain of mountains in Hindostan, extending NE. and SW. nearly, along the N. bank of the Namadus (now Nerbudda), in hit. 21°, long. 117° 30'. They are now known by the name of the Vindhya Ms., and form the principal watershed of the iS'e?'- hudda and Tapti, which flow into the Indian Ocean, a little to the N. oi Bombay ,a.vu of theiSoaweand^w- f^o?)^^*, which are great tributaries of the Ganges. [V.] VI'NDIUS or VINNIUS {Omy^Lov opos, Ptol. ii. 6. § 21), a mountain in Hispania Tarraconensis, which ran in a W. direction from the Saltus Vas- conum and formed the boundary between the Can- tabri and the Astures. It formed, therefore, the V. portion of the Cantabrian chain. The Iberus had its source in it. [T. H. D.] VINDOBALA, a station on the wall of Hadrian in Britain, which was garrisoned by the Gohors i. Frixa- gorum. Camden (p. 1090) identifies it with Walls- End; whilst Horsley (p. 105) and others take it to be Rutckester. (A'oi. Imjh ; Geo. Rav. v. 31.) [Vallum Romanum.] [T. H. D.] VINDOBO'NAorVENDOBONA(Ouii'5(5gowa: Vietmd), a town on the Danube in Upper Pannonia, was originally a Celtic place, but afterwards became a Roman municipium, as we learn from inscriptions. (Gruter, Liscript. p. 4.) This town, which accord- ing to Ptolemy (ii. 15. § 3) for some time bore the name of Juliobona ClovAiSSufo), was situated at the foot of Mons Cetius, on the road running along the right bank of the river, and in the course of time became one of the most important military stations on the Danube ; for after the decay of Car- nuntum it was not only the station of the principal part of the Danubian fleet, but also of the Legio X. Gemina. (/i. ^«^ pp. 233, 248, 261, 266 ; Tab. Pent. ; Aurel. Vict, de Caes. 1 6 ; Agathem. ii. 4 ; Jornand. Get. 50, where it is called Vindomina.) Vindobona suffered severely during the invasion of the Huns under Attila, yet continued to be a flourishing place, especially irnder the dominion of the Longobards. (Jornand. I. c.) It is well known that the emperor M. Aurelius died at Vindobona. (Aurel. Vict, de Caes. 16, Epit. 18 ; comp. Fischer, Brevis Notitia Urbis Vindobonae, Vindobonae, 1 767 ; Von Hormayr, Geschichte Wiens, i. p. 43, foil. ; Muchar, Norikum, vol. i. p. 166, foil.) [L. S.] VINDOGLA'DIA, a place in Britannia Romana, probably in the territory of the Belgae on the road from Venta Belgarum to Isca Dumnoniorum. (7/m. Atit. pp. 483, 486.) The Geogr. Rav. (v. 31) calls it Bin- dogladia. Some place it at Pentridge, near Old Sarum, where are remains of Roman fortifications. Camden, however (p. 61), identifies it with Winburn, and Horsley (p. 472) with Cranburn. [T. H. D.] VINDOLANA, a station on Hadrian's boundary wall in Britain, where the Cohors iv. Gallorum lay in garrison. (^Not. Imp.) By the Geo. Rav. (v. 31) it is called Vindolanda. Camden (p. 1 087) identifies it with Old Winchester, Horsley (p. 89, &c.) with Little Cheaters, [Vallum Romanum.] [T.H.D.] VINTITOL. 1311 VINDOMAGUS {OmvUixayoi), in Gallia Narbo- nensis, one of the two cities which Ptolemy (ii. 10. § 10) assigns to the Volcae Arecomici. There is nothing to determine the position of Vindomagus, except the fact that there is a town Vicjan, where some remains have been found. Le Vigan is NW. of Nismes, and on the southern border of the Ce- vennes. FG. L.l VINDOMIS or VINDOMUM, a place belonging probably to the Belgae in Britannia Romana on the road from Venta Belgarum to Calleva. (Itin. Ant. pp. 483, 486.) Horsley (p. 459) identifies it with Farnham ; others have sought it at E. Sherborne, and at Whitchurch. [T. H. D.] VINDOJIORA, a town of the Brigantes in the N. part of Britannia Romana. {Itin. Ant. p. 464.) It is commonly identified with Ebchester at the NW. boundary of Durham (Horsley, p. 398), where thei-e are remains of a fort, and where Roman anti- quities have been discovered. (Cf. Camden, p. 1086; Philos. Trans. No. 278.) [T. H. D.] VINDONISSA, in Gallia, is mentioned by Tacitus {Hist. iv. 61, 70). It was the station of the twenty- first legion, a. D. 71, which entered Rhaetia from Vindonissa. The place is Windisch, in the Swiss canton of Anrgau, near the junction of the Aar, Reuss, and Limmath. Vindonissa was once a large place, and many Roman remains and coins have been found there. In the Biirlisgnd)e there are traces of an amphitheatre, and on the road from Brauneck- berg to Konigsfelden the remains of an aqueduct The name of the xxi. Legion has been discovered in inscriptions found at Windisch. Near Windisch is the former convent and monastery of Kunigsfelden, where some of the members of the Habsburg family are buried. Several Roman roads help to fix the position of Vindonissa. The Table places it at the distance of xxii. from Augusta Rauracorum {Augst) [Augusta Rauracokum] ; and another road went from Vindonissa past Vitodurum [ViTO- durum] to Arbor Felix in Rhaetia. Vindonissa is named Vindo in a Panegyric of Constantine by Eu- menius, and Castrum Vindonissense in Maxima Se- quanorum in the Notitia of the Gallic Provinces. When Christianity was established in these parts, Vindonissa was the see of the first bishopric, which was afterwards removed to Constanz. In the third and fourth centuries Vandals and Alemanni damaged the town. The Huns afterwards ravaged Vindonissa, and Childebert king of the Franks de- stroyed it in the sixth century. (D'Anville, Notice, ij-c. ; Ernesti, Note on Tacit. Hist. iv. 70 ; Neige- baur, Nevestes Gemalde der Schwciz.) [G. L.] VINIOLAE, a place of the Oretani in Hispania Tarraconensis, between Acatucci and Mentesa Bastia. {/tin. Ant. p. 402.) Variously identified with Ilino- jares arid as a place on the river Borosa. [T. II. D.J VINNIUS. [ViNuius.] VINO' VI A (in Ptol. Omwoviov, ii. 3. § 16), a town of the Brigantes in the N. of Britannia Romana. (Itin. Ant. p. 465.) Now Binchester near Bishop Aiickland, with remains of Roman walls and otiier antiquities. (Camden, p. 945.) In the Not. Imp. and by the Geogr. Rav. (v. 31) it is called Vinonia. [T. H. D.] VI'NTIUM (OvlvTiov: Vence), in Gallia Nar- bonensis, the chief town of the Nerusii. [Neuu- sii.J Inscriptions have been found at Venae with the words civiT. vint. ; and in the Notitia of the Gallic Provinces it is placed in the Alpes Jlari- timae under the name of Civitas Yiutiensium or