This paper uses a multi-disciplinary approach to re-examine the early history of Leeds as a settlement, from the late Antique period through to the Norman Conquest. Historians of the period have tended to be more comfortable in describing Leeds as a region, but a combination of recent archaeological and linguistic developments, as well as the use of modern data extraction and GIS software, are used here to argue that Leeds should be considered as an important Romano-British tribal capital which only gradually lost its regional importance as the area headed into the tenth and eleventh centuries.

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Loidam Civitatem：利兹从部落首都到维京人的死水

本文采用多学科方法重新审视利兹作为聚居地的早期历史，从古代晚期到诺曼征服。这一时期的历史学家往往更愿意将利兹描述为一个地区，但结合最近的考古和语言发展，以及现代数据提取和 GIS 软件的使用，这里被用来论证应该考虑利兹作为重要的罗马-英国部落首都，随着该地区进入十世纪和十一世纪，才逐渐失去其区域重要性。