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Originally named Gesoriacum, by the 4th century Boulogne was known to the Romans as Bononia and served as the major port connecting the rest of the empire to Britain. The emperor Claudius used this town as his base for the Roman invasion of Britain. In the Middle Ages it was the centre of a namesake county.
In the year 1905 the First Esperanto Universal CongressThe World Congress of Esperanto (in Esperanto: Universala Kongreso de Esperanto has the longest tradition among international Esperanto conventions, with an almost unbroken run of nearly a hundred years. The Congresses have been held since 1905 every year was held in Boulogne-sur-Mer. L. L. ZamenhofLudovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer) Zamenhof ( December 15, 1859 April 14, 1917) was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken planned language to date. His native languages were Russian and Yiddish,, the creator of Esperanto, was among the attendees.