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4 unusual facts about Roman


Annius Plocamus

Annius Plocamus was a Roman tax collector from the Mediterranean, who facilitated direct trade and the first contacts between the Roman Empire and Ancient Ceylon, present day Sri Lanka.

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

Camillus and his colleague P. Valerius Potitus Poplicola received command of this second army and the war against the Etruscans.


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.

Carhaix-Plouguer

In continental histories Carhaix is thought to be Carohaise of King Leodegrance and the Roman city of Vorgium.

Caversfield

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

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.

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.

Fryburg, Ohio

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

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.

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.

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.

Homeboykris

A son of Roman Ruler, he was purchased privately by a group headed by restaurateur Louis Lazzinnaro and includes Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre and turned over to Richard Dutrow, Jr. for training.

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.

Il Sorpasso

Thus begins a cruise along the Via Aurelia, the Roman road which also gives the name to Bruno's beloved car.

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.

John Yanta

John Yanta (born October 2, 1931, in Runge, Texas), is a former Roman Catholic bishop who served the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo in Amarillo, Texas.

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.

Kehlen

A monument to the four gods depicting Juno, Minerva, Mercury and Hercules, possibly once the base of a Jupiter Column, was discovered on the heights of Schoenberg at the point where two Roman roads once crossed.

Léon Vaganay

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

Liber

Vitruvius recommends that Liber's temples follow an Ionic Greek model, as a "just measure between the severe manner of the Doric and the tenderness of the Corinthian," respectful of the deity's part-feminine characteristics.

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.

Matutinal

The etymology of the term is the Latin word mātūtīnus, "of or pertaining to the morning" (from Mātūta, Roman goddess of the dawn + -īnus, "-ine") + -ālis, "-al".

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.

Numantia

In 1905 the German archaeologist Adolf Schulten began a series of excavations which located the Roman camps around the city.

Oleksandr Bondarenko

He also played in FC Torpedo Zaporizhia along with his twin brother, Roman, who spent almost ten years as the forward there.

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

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.

Presbytery

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

Prince Lerotholi Seeiso

Prince Lerotholi was baptized as David at the Roman Catholic St. Louis Church at Matsieng on 2 June 2007 by the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Lesotho, Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi.

Raffaello da Montelupo

(Legend holds that in 590 the Archangel appeared atop what was then the mausoleum of Hadrian, sheathing his sword as a sign of the end of the Roman plague, thus lending the fortress its present name).

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 Sebastian Zängerle

Roman Sebastian Zängerle (January 20, 1771, Ober-Kirchberg near Ulm – April 17, 1848 at Seckau in Austria) was Prince-Bishop of Seckau.

Roscius

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

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.

Senatus consultum

Robert Byrd, The Senate of the Roman Republic, 1995, U.S. Government Printing Office, Senate Document 103-23 ;

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.

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.

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.

Tylösand

The Roman author Plinius, who lived during the first century AD, claims that the world's furthermost place at Thule or Tyle is the place described by the Greek Pytheas from Marseille, who travelled from the Mediterranean to the North in 300 BC.

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).

Walle Plough

The scratch plough type is known through finds and images from the Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as from Hallstatt culture, Etruscan, Greek and Roman contexts.

Weilüe

Yu Huan also includes a brief description of "Zesan" which probably refers to the East African coast which was known to Greek and Roman authors as Azania, and what appears to be awareness of a route around Africa to the Roman Empire - "You can (also) travel (from Zesan) southwest to the capital of Da Qin (Rome), but the number of li is not known".

William Edward Addis

In 1888 he resigned the priesthood, after issuing a circular to his parishioners announcing his abjuration of Roman Catholic doctrines, and was married, at St. John's, Notting Hill, to Miss Mary Rachel Flood.

Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Georgia World Congress Center from July 21 to July 22.


see also

Chaput

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

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.

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).

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).

León Cathedral

It was built on the site of previous Roman baths of the 2nd century which, 800 years later, king Ordoño II converted into a palace.

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.

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.

Mailapur

Dioceses of Saint Thomas of Mylapore, a Roman Catholic dioceses of Mylapore, Madras, India

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

Middle Eastern Empires

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

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.

Orientius

All this points to his identification with Orientius, Bishop of Augusta Ausciorum (Auch), who as a very old man was sent by Theodoric I, King of the Goths, as ambassador to the Roman generals Flavius Aëtius and Litorius in 439 ("Vita S. Orientii" in "Acta SS.", I May, 61).

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.

Richard Miles

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.