Ratae Corieltauvorum

Ratae Corieltauvorum was a Roman town in Britannia, now known as Leicester in Leicestershire, England. Roman occupation began after the conquest of Britain in AD 43, and by the early 2nd century the settlement was reorganised with a rectangular street grid as the civitas capital of the Corieltauvi tribe. The town's public baths, completed around AD 160, featured the Jewry Wall -- a 9-metre-high, 23-metre-long structure that is one of the largest surviving Roman masonry remains in Britain. The town prospered in the late 3rd century with trading links across Western Europe and North Africa before declining in the mid-4th century.