Winchester more urban settlement type developed, known as an oppidum, although the archaeology of this phase remains obscure. It was overrun by the confederation of Gaulish tribes known as the Belgae sometime during the first century BCE. It seems to have been known as Wentā or Venta, derived from the Brittonic for "town" or "meeting place", or the word for "white" (Welsh "gwyn"), due to Winchester's situation upon chalk. After the Roman conquest of Britain, the settlement served as the capital () of the Belgae and was distinguished as Venta Belgarum, "Venta of the Belgae". Although in the early years of
Krishna Venta Sup Ct (1955). After his death two of his followers, Sister Thedra (Dorothy Leon) and Sister Wali, both moved to Mount Shasta, California, where they channeled messages supposedly from him. Krishna Venta Krishna Venta (born Francis Herman Pencovic; March 29, 1911 – December 10, 1958) was the leader of a California religious group in the 1940s and 1950s. Venta founded his WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World cult in the Simi Valley, California. Pencovic was born in San Francisco in 1911 to Albert Pencovic and his wife Maude Busenbach. His father was a Jewish immigrant from