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9 unusual facts about Romans


Bernard of Vienne

Towards the end of his life, he enjoyed retiring to a spot on the banks of the Isere River, where the town of Romans is today.

Franco-Belge de Fabrication du Combustible

From 1977 onwards its headquarters are located in Romans-sur-Isère.

Gerard Lally

At Romans on the 18 April 1701 he married Anne-Marie, the daughter of Charles Jacques de Bressac, seigneur de La Vache; they had a son Thomas Arthur Lally.

Romans, Ain

The land of Romans became in 917 the property of Cluny Abbey, when it was given by Ingelberge, wife of William I, Duke of Aquitaine who founded Cluny Abbey and the daughter of King Boso of Provence.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

Duchesne returned to her family where she lived at their country home, along with two aunts, who had been Visitandines at Romans-sur-Isère.

Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally

He was born at Romans-sur-Isère, Dauphiné, the son of Sir Gerald Lally, an Irish Jacobite from Tuam, County Galway, who married a French lady of noble family, from whom the son inherited his titles.

TRIGA

Since then, TRIGA fuel assemblies have been manufactured at CERCA's plant in Romans-sur-Isère, France.

Union Sportive Romanaise et Péageoise

L’Union sportive romanaise and péageoise is a French rugby union club based in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme).

L’US romanaise and péageoise was founded in 1908 as the sport association of two town on both side of the Isère, Romans-sur-Isère and Bourg-of-Péage.


Adam Contzen

During his residence in Munich, which began in 1623, he completed and published his commentary on the four Gospels, and on the epistles of St. Paul to the Romans, the Corinthians, and the Galatians.

Aksumite currency

By the time coins were first minted in Aksum, there was widespread trade with Romans on the Red Sea; Kushana or Persian influence also cannot be ruled out.

Al-Waqidi

Battle of Yarmouk is regarded as one of the most decisive battles in military history where the Muslims were outnumbered by the Romans but, with the help of the women and the young boys amongst them, finished off the Roman Empire.

Aldersgate

It was a Moravian Church meeting, during a reading of Martin Luther's commentary on Romans that Wesley reported his heart "strangely warmed" — an event he described as his conversion.

Ancient Diocese of Bazas

The Diocese of Bazas, centred on Bazas in Aquitaine, covered the Bazadais region, known under the Romans as the Vasatensis pagus after the ancient occupants, the Vasates.

Aniran

This is also reflected in Shapur's inscription on the wall of the Ka'ba-ye Zardosht, where the emperor includes Syria, Cappadocia, and Cilicia - all three previously captured from the Romans - in his list of Anērān territories.

Antigonid Macedonian army

Having defeated the Romans, Andriscus invaded Thessaly in 148 BC, where he suffered a setback in battle against the Achaean League, commanded by Scipio Nasica.

Asterix and the Normans

The book's encounter between Romans, Gauls and Normans during the age of Caesar is thus an anachronism; indeed, the Norman chief tells the Gauls that they do not want to invade their country, but their descendants will do some centuries later (they even briefly reference 1066).

Battle of Guoloph

The pro-Saxon agenda of Vortigern eventually led to his fall and probably around the latter part of the 450's, the Britano-Romans finally united under the Banner of Ambrosius, besieging Vortigern at his fortress at Caer-Guorthigirn (Little Doward, Herefordshire) which they burned to the ground killing everyone inside.

Before Their Eyes

The name of the band is taken from the New Testament verse Romans 3:18: "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

Benkovac

The Romans mention the following Liburnian settlements :Nedinum (Nadin), Carinium (Karin), Varvaria (Bribir) and Asseria (Podgrađe).

Born, Luxembourg

The Romans became firmly established in nearby Trier or Augusta Treverorum, a prosperous regional capital, but they also developed communities in the Moselle and Sauer valleys, especially at Wasserbillig (Biliacum), the bridge over the Sauer on the Roman road from Trier to Reims (Civitas Remorum), and Echternach, the bridge on the road from Arlon (Orolaunum), to Bitburg (Vicus Beda).

Calonymus

For all the Libyans had been Romans in earlier times and had come under the Vandals by no will of their own and had suffered many outrages at the hands of these barbarians.

César Malan

In 1816–1817 during a visit to Geneva, Scotsman Robert Haldane met up with this group on a regular basis and taught through the letter to the Romans.

Chellah

The Romans had two main naval ouposts on the Atlantic: Sala near modern Rabat and Mogador in north of Agadir.

Civitas

At Cirencester, for example, the Romans made use of the army base that originally oversaw the nearby tribal oppidum to create a civitas.

Crupellarius

Under the reign of the 2nd Roman Emperor, Tiberius, a faction of Treveri led by Julius Florus, and the Aedui, led by Julius Sacrovir, led a rebellion of Gaulish debtors against the Romans in 21 CE.

Delator

48 for ancient authorities; C Merivale, Hist. of the Romans under the Empire, chap.

Demetrius of Pharos

When the Romans were occupied with their own problems, he had grown stronger as an ally of Macedonia and also by conquering Dimallum of Dalmatia, on the shore facing Issa.

European numerals

Roman numerals, the numeral system devised and formerly used by the Romans and still used today to write names such as Elizabeth II or Henry VIII, etc.

Fifth Empire

The first four empires were, according to Vieira, in order: the Assyro-Caldeans, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

Foederati

These same Goths then rose in rebellion and defeated the Romans in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 AD.

Frederick Temple

Temple's essay had dealt with the intellectual and spiritual growth of the race, and had pointed out the contributions made respectively by the Hebrews, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, and others.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

The line "Here ye, here ye, friends and Romans, countrymen" appears in Frank Turner's song, I Still Believe from the 2011 album England Keep My Bones.

Hippocampus kuda

Greeks and Romans believed the seahorse was an attribute of the sea god Poseidon/Neptune, and the seahorse was considered a symbol of strength and power.

History of sundials

The Romans adopted the Greek sundials, and the first record of a sun-dial in Rome is 293 BC according to Pliny.

Lady Justice

Her modern iconography frequently adorns courthouses and courtrooms, and conflates the attributes of several goddesses who embodied Right Rule for Greeks and Romans, blending Roman blindfolded Fortuna (fate) with Hellenistic Greek Tyche (luck), and sword-carrying Nemesis (vengeance).

Leicester City Centre

The historic city of Leicester was founded by the Romans at the crossing of the River Soar by the Fosse Way, between the current path of the river and the modern Gallowtree Gate.

Michel Onfray

Macquarie University historian John Dickson has pointed out that Philo of Alexandria, writing about the time of Jesus, tells us that sometimes the Romans handed the bodies of crucifixion victims over to family members for proper burial.

Moesi

The Romans chased an army of the Bastarnae and marched towards the Moesi, successfully overtaking their stronghold and subduing the majority of the tribe.

Morgan Dix

Among his major works are Commentaries on Romans and on Galatians and Colossians; The Calling of a Christian Woman; The Seven Deadly Sins; The Sacramental System; and Lectures on the First Prayer-Book of Edward VI.

Pharaonist movement

The Egyptians came subsequently under the influence of brief successions of foreign rulers including Nubians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, French and British.

Ponente

It sometimes appears as Zephyrus, the ancient Greek name, probably derived from "zopho" (meaning dark, gloomy, a reference to the sunset rather than the quality of the wind.) Romans also called it Favonius, probably meaning "favorable", as the westerly wind in the Mediterranean was regarded as a mild wind that brought relief from the summer heat and some useful moisture for crops.

Port Vell

In the 1st century AD, the Romans founded a colony, Barcino, on Mount Tàber.

Roman bridge

The Romans built both single spans and lengthy multiple arch aqueducts, such as the Pont du Gard and Segovia Aqueduct.

Roman Museum

In the first century AD the Cantiaci were the inhabitants of Kent when the Romans captured a settlement on the River Stour and later called it Durovernum Cantiacorum, or stronghold of the Cantiaci by an Alder marsh.

Saint Andronicus

Andronicus of Pannonia — an Apostle of the Seventy mentioned in Romans 16:7

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.

Septimer Pass

Already in use by the Romans, during the Middle Ages the Septimer Pass was crucial to the temporal power of the Bishopric of Chur whose extensive territories until the fourteenth century included Chiavenna.

Silures

As was standard practice, as revealed by inscriptions, the Romans matched their deities with local Silurian ones, and the local deity Ocelus was identified with Mars, the Roman god of war.

Teatro San Cassiano

These were produced in 1637 and 1638 respectively, by Romans Benedetto Ferrari and Francesco Manelli.

The Lost Centuries

It focussed upon British history between the departure of the Romans and the arrival of the Renaissance.

The Pretty Druidess

The druidesses are doing needlework, creating work to be sold at fund-raising events in aid of the campaign to drive the Romans out of Gaul.

Timeline of Shakespeare criticism

Samuel Johnson, 1765 The Plays of William Shakespeare: "Shakespeare's adherence to general nature has exposed him to the censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely royal. ... These are the petty cavils of petty minds."

Weißenbach am Lech

The Romans used to have an important salt trading route from Hall in Tirol to the Lake Constance, which mainly was used until the train was built through the Arlberg in the early 20th century.


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