The Sol Invictus. The unconquered sun
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Yes, they called it Sol. However this was the Latin word for sun. The Romans never worshiped the sun as a separate god as the Egyptians did, although the god Apollo, in some of his aspects was considered a sun-god.
Tadcaster was Calcaria in the Romans time, it came from the Latin word for lime.
It was just the same Leicester
The Latin word for a wheelbarrow is "pabillus".
The Romans didn't have a name for the continent of Africa, as we do, but one of the provinces of the empire was named Africa. The other provinces in the northern part of what we call Africa were, Egypt (Aegyptus) Cyrenaica, Numidia and Mauritania.