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4 unusual facts about Roman


Roman-Dalmatae Wars

In 158 BC the Greek city of Issa complained to her Roman ally that the Delmatae were molesting their mainland settlements of Tragurium and Epetium; similar complaints were received from the Illyrian Daorsi, neighbors of the Delmatae on the south.

From 58 to 50 BC the Delmatae were in the charge of Julius Caesar, proconsul of Gaul and Illyricum, though the commander was able to give little attention to his Adriatic responsibilities.

Roman-Etruscan Wars

According to Livy the leading men of all of Etruria gathered at the sanctuary of Voltumna to form a hostile alliance against Rome.

Roman-photos

Roman-photos (Fotonovelas) is the debut album by French rock musician Alain Bashung, released in 1977 through Barclay Records.


Archaeological Museum of Florina

Also on the ground floor are grave stelae of the Roman period from Vevi (2nd–3rd century AD), Petres (2nd century BC), Sitaria (3rd century AD), Vythkouki, Kastoria regional unit (320 BC); statues from Vevi (a male torso of the Roman period) and Lakia (a statue of Artemis of the Roman period); and an exceptional mosaic floor from a house of the Roman period at Kato Kleines.

Barrier Treaty

The result of the Barrier Treaty was that the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI did not have a lot to say about "his" Austrian Netherlands.

Benito Arias Montano

León de Castro, professor of Oriental languages at Salamanca, to whose translation of the Vulgate Arias had opposed the original Hebrew text, denounced Arias to the Roman, and later to the Spanish Inquisition for having altered the Biblical text, making too liberal use of the rabbinical writings, in disregard of the decree of the Council of Trent concerning the authenticity of the Vulgate, and confirming the Jews in their beliefs by his Chaldaic paraphrases.

Bridget Jones Nelson

She has played characters as diverse as Mr. B Natural and Lisa Loeb but is probably best known for two roles: Nuveena, Girl of the Future, Mike's singing love interest in episodes 524, "12 to the Moon", and 614, "San Francisco International", and Flavia, an evil Roman matron and Pearl Forrester's nemesis in a multi-episode arc in season eight.

Caversfield

The ancient Roman road between Alchester and Towcester, now the A4421, forms the eastern boundary of the parish.

Coat of arms of Drobeta-Turnu Severin

Lion recalls, on the one hand, the old insignia of the Roman legions, and on the other hand, that once Severin belonged to the Banat of Oltenia.

Coggabata

Coggabata, or Congavata / Concavata, (with the modern name of Drumburgh) was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, between Aballava (Burgh by Sands) to the east and Mais (Bowness on Solway) to the west.

Deriana

The town's name probably came from the ancient Roman city Hadrianopolis, which was located near present day Deriana.

Emmaus

Many sites have been suggested for the biblical Emmaus, among them Emmaus Nicopolis (ca. 160 stadia from Jerusalem), Kiryat Anavim (66 stadia from Jerusalem on the carriage road to Jaffa), Coloniya (36 stadia on the carriage road to Jaffa), el-Kubeibeh (63 stadia, on the Roman road to Lydda), Artas (60 stadia from Jerusalem) and Khurbet al-Khamasa (86 stadia on the Roman road to Eleutheropolis).

Eugippius

After the latter's death in 482, he took the remains to Naples and founded a monastery on the site of a 1st-century Roman villa, the Castellum Lucullanum (on the site of the later Castel dell'Ovo).

Faustina the Elder

Her paternal grandfather had the same name as her father and her maternal grandparents were Salonina Matidia (niece of Roman Emperor Trajan) and suffect consul Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus.

Folkestone Castle

Known locally as "Caesar's Camp", it is not actually Roman at all, but was probably constructed as early as 1095 and was certainly occupied for some time following the Norman invasion.

Fryburg, Ohio

Fryburg is well known for its annual Homecoming Festival, held the Sunday before Labor Day at St. John's Roman Catholic Church.

Georg Ludwig Kriegk

Kriegk was an avid archaeologist, conducting excavations of the ancient Roman settlement of Nida, located in the present-day district of Heddernheim.

Goupil

René Goupil (1608–1642), French missionary, one of the first North American martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church

I giganti di Roma

Joining the four commandoes is young Valerius; a boy who ran away from a wealthy Roman home to become a Legionary but only became a Gunga Din type labourer.

Jacques Bedout

At the British Parliament, Charles James Fox praised his defence of his ship, comparing him to Roman and Greek heroes.

Jan Reynst

After his death the Roman statues and Italian paintings by Barocci, Bassano, Bellini, Paris Bordone, Pordenone, Palma Vecchio Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto, Parmigianino, Guido Reni, Giulio Romano, Tintoretto, Titian, Andrea Schiavone, Perugino, Antonello da Messina and Paolo Veronese were shipped to his brother in Amsterdam.

Léon Vaganay

Léon Vaganay (Saint-Étienne, 22 October 1882 - Vernaison, 30 March 1969) was a French Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar.

London Mithraeum

It is perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London.

Lucanica

Apicius documents it as a spicy, smoked beef or pork sausage originally from Lucania; according to Cicero and Martial, it was brought by Roman troops or slaves from Lucania.

Ludolf

George Philipp Ludolf von Beckedorff (1778-1858), prominent Prussian Roman Catholic convert and parliamentarian

Ludwig Quidde

However, Quidde drew an implicit parallel between the Roman Emperor Caligula and Wilhelm II, de facto accusing both rulers of megalomania.

Manitoba general election, 1914

Although Education Minister George R. Coldwell insisted the amendments were only meant to clarify existing provisions, many voters believed the Roblin government wanted to re-introduce funding for separate Roman Catholic schools.

Marchington

The village's Roman Catholic church on Hall road is a small stone building and is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham

Maria Amalia

Maria Amalia of Austria (1701–1756), was the daughter of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, wife of Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

Mark S. Smith

He also began to explore the representation of deities and divinity in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East from the Bronze Age to the Greco-Roman period.

Middle Eastern Empires

In 116 AD, the Roman emperor Trajan invaded the Parthian empire and conquered all the way to Babylon.

Miseno

In ancient times, Misenum was the largest base of the Roman navy, since its port (Portus Julius) was the base of the Classis Misenensis, the most important Roman fleet.

Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey

His idea was to build a model monastery for England, sharing his knowledge of the experience of the Roman traditions in an area previously more influenced by Celtic Christianity stemming from missionaries of Melrose and Iona.

Orthographic projection

In about 14 BC, Roman engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio used the projection to construct sundials and to compute sun positions.

Peace of Bautzen

Bolesław had enjoyed the close friendship of the emperor Otto III and after his death supported one of Otto's followers, Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen for the position of Holy Roman Emperor, against the claims of Henry II.

Presbytery

Presbyterium, a body of ordained, active priests in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches

Richard Head

Its tales of drastic adventures were based on the model of Spanish rogue stories (such as Lazarillo de Tormes 1554), which were fashionable due to the contemporary publication of Scarron's Roman Comique (or Comical Romance, so the English title which established the genre), and savoury with the events Head could claim to have based on his personal experience.

Richard Miles

Richard Pius Miles (1791–1860), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, 1838–1860

Risley Park Lanx

The Risley Park Lanx is a large Roman silver dish (or lanx) that was discovered in 1729 in Risley Park, Derbyshire.

Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus

It is a scholarly study of the work of the ancient Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus whose "twenty complete comedies constitute the largest extant corpus of classical dramatic literature" (p. 1)

Roscius

Sextus Roscius, a Roman accused of parricide who was successfully defended by Cicero

Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

He was Duke, Prince-Elector of Saxony and Arch-Reichsmarschall of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from 1298 until his death.

Saint Jerome's Academy

Saint Jerome's Academy, also called SJA, is a private, Roman Catholic parochial school located at the town proper of Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.

Second Punic War

The first objective of the insurgents were the Roman colonies of Placentia and Cremona, causing the Romans to flee to Mutina (modern Modena), which the Gauls then besieged.

Shapur I

In 242, the Roman emperor Gordian III set out against the Sasanians with “a huge army and great quantity of gold,” (according to a Sasanian rock relief) and wintered in Antioch, while Shapur was busy in subduing Khwarezm and Gilan.

Sofia Metro

Evidence of antiquity can be clearly seen at the Serdika Station which exhibits a wealth of unearthed Thracian and Roman ruins and modern architecture.

Stanwix

'Congavata ' was the name of the Roman fort at what became Drumburgh-by Sands; however, it was Petriana that gave rise to the name of Stanwix.

Temple of Castor and Pollux

Before the battle, the Roman dictator Aulus Postumius Albus vowed to build a temple to the Dioscuri if Rome were victorious.

Toxicology

Dioscorides, a Greek physician in the court of the Roman emperor Nero, made the first attempt to classify plants according to their toxic and therapeutic effect.

Velzeke-Ruddershove

A hoard of third-century Roman coins has been discovered at Velzeke, including 91 denarii (ranging in date from the reign of Septimius Severus to that of Gordian III) and 93 antoniniani (ranging in date from the reign of Elagabalus to that of Postumus).

Wrestling at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman featherweight

The Greco-Roman featherweight competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics was part of the wrestling programme.

Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg at the 1992 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Instituto Nacional de Educación Física de Cataluña from July 27 to July 29.

Wyszyński

Stefan Wyszyński, Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, cardinal


see also

BBC Radio Leicester

This new centre is adjacent to the medieval Guildhall and Cathedral and includes many aspects of Leicester's history including Victorian tiles and an Undercroft (first revealed in 1841) with remains dating to Roman times.

Brutus of Troy

The Historia Britonum states that "The island of Britain derives its name from Brutus, a Roman consul" who conquered Spain.

Chaput

Charles J. Chaput, the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Clunia, Austria

Clunia is the name of an ancient Roman city that is situated in Feldkirch (Vorarlberg, Austria) and indicated on the Tabula Peutingeriana.

Conrad Phillip Kottak

He believes that various American legends and stories, such as Star Trek, Star Wars and the Thanksgiving story are growing into a type of mythology which someday might be comparable to Greek, Roman, or other stories which today are considered to be myths.

Franz Skutsch

Skutsch is remembered for his expert linguistic/philological treatment of the Roman playwright Plautus, being the author of the acclaimed "Plautinisches und Romanisches" (1892).

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, also spelled Paullinus, (fl. 1st century) was a Roman general best known as the commander who defeated the rebellion of Boudica.

George Mayer

Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Harold Ambellan

After living several years in Montparnasse, one of the principal artistic communities of Paris, Ambellan decided to settle in the Greek-Roman enclave town of Antibes on the Côte d'Azur.

Joseph Lynch

Joseph Patrick Lynch (1872–1954), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Kaunos

In De architectura by the famous Roman architect Vitruvius it is stated that wind measuring platforms were used to plan streets in accordance with the prevailing wind direction, in order to keep the air in cities clean.

Kladorub

The name of that village - Conbustica, is marked on the Roman road map Tabula Peutengiriana as a point, located on the road from Ratiaria (current Archar) to Naisos (current Niš).

Largo, Sofia

The lawn and the flags in the centre are to be substituted by a glass lid on the floor, so that the ruins of the ancient Thracian and Roman city of Serdica can be exposed in an impressive way, thus becoming a tourist attraction.

Macrobius Cove

The feature is named after the Roman writer and philosopher Ambrosius Macrobius (4th-5th century) who placed on the world map the southern polar land envisaged by Aristotle.

Mugica

Carlos Mugica (1930–1974), Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist

Names of Istanbul

It was conferred to it by the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (193–211) in honour of his son Antoninus, the later Emperor Caracalla.

Otello

:He continues by discussing his own preoccupation with Emperor Nero and his love for the period of Ancient Roman history as works on his own opera, Nerone

Panis

Graeco-Roman authors equated the Parthians with a Scythian tribe called the Parni (i.e. Greek Parnoi), which has been equated by some with the Panis.

Polemon I of Pontus

Zenon encouraged the locals to resist the Roman General Quintus Labienus and King Pacorus I of Parthia, when their armies invaded Syria and Anatolia.

Pompeia Plotina

Plotina was born and was raised in Tejada la Vieja (Escacena del Campo) in the province of Hispania during the reign of Roman Emperor Nero (r. 54–68).

Portico Dii Consentes

The Portico Dii Consentes ("Portico of the Harmonious Gods"), sometimes known as the Area of the Dii Consentes, is located at the bottom of the ancient Roman road that leads up to the Capitol in Rome and to the Temple of Jupiter at its summit.

Seal of New York City

The seal of the city of New York, adopted in an earlier form in 1686, bears the legend SIGILLUM CIVITATIS NOVI EBORACI which means simply "The Seal of the City of New York": Eboracum was the Roman name for York, the titular seat of James II as Duke of York.

Senigallia

Senigallia, spread out along the coast at the mouth of the river Misa, was founded in the 4th century BC by the Gallic tribe of the Senones and became the first Roman colony on the Adriatic shore.

Shottesbrooke

The Roman 'Camlet Way' between St Albans and Silchester would have crossed the parish at some point and the name 'Cold Harbour' indicates there was an inn or other stopping place nearby.

Turning the other cheek

The commonly invoked Roman law of Angaria allowed the Roman authorities to demand that inhabitants of occupied territories carry messages and equipment the distance of one mile post, but prohibited forcing an individual to go further than a single mile, at the risk of suffering disciplinary actions.

William Winter

William J. Winter (born 1930), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh

Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman flyweight at the 1968 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Insurgentes Ice Rink.

Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg at the 1988 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Sangmu Gymnasium, Seongnam.