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unusual facts about The Roman Empire



Current World Archaeology

It studies great civilisations from significant eras of the past, such as Early Humans; the Egyptians; the Greek Empire; Jōmon; Mayans; The Roman Empire; and Alexander the Great.


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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.

Auxilia

At this juncture, the Roman empire was convulsed by its first major civil war since the Battle of Actium exactly a century earlier: the Year of the Four Emperors (69-70 AD).

Barbarian Invasion

The so-called 'barbarian invasions' contemporaneous with the fall of the Roman Empire

Battle of Ilipa

Adrian Goldsworthy; In the Name of Rome - The Men Who Won the Roman Empire; 2003; ISBN 0-297-84666-3

Bavarian State Archaeological Collection

Grünwald: The Burgmuseum Grünwald (Grünwald Castle Museum) emphasizes Roman stone monuments and more broadly, the Roman Empire in Bavaria and beyond, including archaeological material from the castle site and the nearby Roman earthworks at the crossing of the Isar.

Cembrit

The name ‘Cembrit’ derives from the Cimbri – a nomadic tribe from Northern Denmark that conquered large parts of Europe and threatened the Roman Empire around 100 BC.

Chalandamarz

Chalandamarz dates as far back as the time when southeastern Switzerland, or Retia, was part of the Roman Empire, and therefore the tradition is probably older than Christianity, and some records say it is even older than the Roman empire.

Devil's Causeway

The hoard of 70 Roman coins – 61 sestercii and 9 dupondii — dates from the reign of the Emperors Vespasian to the reign of Marcus Aurelius (AD69–180) — a period when the Antonine Wall, between Glasgow and Edinburgh, and not Hadrian's Wall, marked the frontier of the Roman Empire, and for a short period,

Dumat Al-Jandal

In 106 AD, Dumatha was incorporated into the Roman Empire when the Emperor Trajan defeated the Nabataeans.

Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire

The Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire, written by Matthew Bunson in 1994 and published by Facts on File, is a detailed depiction of the history of the Roman Empire.

Flavius Claudius

Crispus (Flavius Claudius Crispus) (died 326), Caesar of the Roman Empire

Foot drill

Vegetius composed his treatise on the Roman Empire's military, De Re Militari, at some point between 378 and 390 CE during the reign of Valentinian II in the Western Roman Empire.

Genseric

RayStorms fifth boss, in keeping with the theme of enemies of the Roman Empire, is named Genseric.

Graitzas Palaiologos

In July 1461, with Salmeniko now isolated and surrounded and, as the last garrison of the Roman Empire, no hope of relief, Graitzas, leading a sortie of the remaining garrison, escaped the besiegers and sought refuge in the Venetian fortress of Lepanto (modern Naupactus).

Guido Cervo

Also set in the Roman Empire age are Il centurione di Augusto, Il segno di Attila, Le mura di Adrianopoli and L'aquila sul Nilo.

Helvetic

Helvetii, Celtic tribes inhabiting this region during the Roman empire;

Hiberno-Roman relations

Rome never annexed Hibernia (the Latin name for Ireland) into the Roman Empire, but did exert influence on the island, although only a small amount of evidence of this has survived.

Irminones

Some aspects of the Irminones' culture and beliefs may be inferred from their relationships with the Roman Empire, from Widukind's confusion over whether Irmin was comparable to Mars or Hermes, and from Snorri Sturluson's allusions, at the beginning of the Prose Edda, to Odin's cult having appeared first in Germany, and then having spread up into the Ingvaeonic North.

Late Roman ridge helmet

One specimen, of 5th century date, was found outside the Roman empire in Concești on Hunnic territory.

Latin Europe

Legacy of the Roman Empire, the cultural and religious legacy of the Roman Empire and its distribution

Macer

Lucius Clodius Macer was a legatus of the Roman Empire in Africa in the time of Nero.

Maeonius

Gibbon, Edward, The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, "Chapter XI: Reign Of Claudius, Defeat Of The Goths. -- Part III."

Maria Dahvana Headley

In early 2010, Dutton purchased Headley's debut novel Queen of Kings, which explores "the transcendent powers of love even beyond death, entwining the true story of Antony and Cleopatra and Rome's invasion of Alexandria with a narrative in which the Queen of Egypt sacrifices her soul to save her fallen husband and in return is transformed into an immortal goddess bent on the destruction of the Roman Empire".

Marsus

Gaius Vibius Marsus, proconsul of the Roman Empire during the first century

Martial

He was educated in Hispania, a part of the Roman Empire which in the 1st century produced several notable Latin writers, including Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Younger, Lucan and Quintilian, and Martial's contemporaries Licinianus of Bilbilis, Decianus of Emerita and Canius of Gades.

Militaris

Vir militaris, a Roman legate that governed a consular military province of the Roman Empire

Porta Nigra

Jas Elsner: Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450.

Res publica

After the Roman Empire collapsed in the West, the idea of res publica disappeared, as foreign to the barbarians of the Migrations Period: whenever Gregory of Tours refers to res publica, it is the Eastern Empire of which he is speaking.

Romulus Augustulus

The play Romulus the Great (1950), by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, an "Ungeschichtliche historische Komödie" (unhistorical historical comedy) about the reign of "Romulus Augustus" and the end of the Roman Empire in the West.

Simon Scarrow

He is best known for his Eagle Series of Roman Military fiction set in the territories of the Roman Empire, covering the second invasion of Britain and the subsequent prolonged campaign undertaken by the rump of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Spartacist

An ancient supporter of Spartacus, who led a slave rebellion against the Roman Empire

Taberna

Tabernae probably first appeared in Greece in locations that were important for economic activities around the end of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Upon the Roman Empire’s expansion into the Mediterranean, the numbers of tabernae greatly increased, in addition to the centrality of the taberna to the urban economy of Roman cities like Pompeii, Ostia, Corinth, Delos, New Carthage, and Narbo.

Teutoburg

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest fought there in AD 9 between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire.

Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio

Pollio married a noblewoman called Annia Fundania Faustina, who was a relative of to the ruling Nerva–Antonine dynasty of the Roman Empire, whose paternal aunt was the Roman Empress Faustina the Elder and her paternal cousins was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the Roman Empress Faustina the Younger.

Trojane

In the Roman Empire, Trojane (Atrans) was on the border between Italy and the province of Noricum.

Umbilicus

Umbilicus urbis Romae, the designated center of the city of Rome from which and to which all distances in Rome and the Roman Empire were measured

University of Salerno

The barbarian invasions following the fall of the Roman Empire caused the last doctors from Velia to move to the neighbouring city of Salerno.

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".

Zvonimir Boban

He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2004, with a thesis named "Christianity in the Roman Empire".