Augusta, a titular see of Cilicia in Asia Minor, whose episcopal list (363-434) is given in Gams (435). Several cities bore the same name in Roman antiquity, some of which are yet flourishing, e. g. Augusta Auscorum (Auch in Southern France); Augusta Batavorum (Leyden in Holland); Augusta Asturica (Astorga in Spain); Augusta Pretoria (Aosta in Northern Italy); Augusta Emerita (Mérida in Spain); Augusta Rauracorum (Augst in Switzerland); Augusta Suessonum (Soissons in France); Augusta Taurinorum (Turin in Italy); Augusta Trevirorum (Trier in Germany); Augusta Trinobantum (London); Augusta Vindelicorum (Augsburg in Germany).
Lequien, Oriens Christ. (1740), II, 879-880; SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., I, 338.
Thomas J. Shahan.