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	Aqueduct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roman-style aqueducts were used as early as the 7th century BC, when the Assyrians built a limestone aqueduct 30 feet (10 m) high and 900 feet (300 m) long to carry water across a valley to their capital city, Nineveh.
		The longest Roman aqueduct, 87 miles (141 km) in length, was built in the 2nd century AD to supply Carthage in what is now Tunisia.
		The Catskill Aqueduct carries water to New York over a distance of 120 miles (190 km), but it is dwarfed by aqueducts in the far west of the country, most notably the Colorado River Aqueduct, which supplies the Los Angeles area with water from the Colorado River nearly 250 miles (400 km) to the east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aqueduct (1357 words)

	AQUEDUCT
		Roman-style aqueducts were used as early as the 7th century BC, when the Assyrians built a limestone aqueduct 30 feet (10 m) high and 900 feet (300 m) long to carry water across a valley to their capital city, Nineveh; the full length of the aqueduct ran for 50 miles (80 km).
		The longest Roman aqueduct was the one built in the 2nd century AD to supply Carthage in what is now Tunisia, which ran for 87 miles (141 km).
		The Catskill Aqueduct carries water to New York over a distance of 120 miles (190 km), but it is dwarfed by aqueducts in the far west of the country, most notably the Colorado River Aqueduct which supplies the Los Angeles area with water from the Colorado River nearly 250 miles (400 km) to the east.
	www.info-venezia.com /Aqueduct (1357 words)

	definition of roman
		Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
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		A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
	www.brainydictionary.com /words/ro/roman213971.html (276 words)

	Historic Atlas Resource - Europe
		Roman aqueduct (Pont du Gard) illustrating the levels of contruction.
		Roman aqueduct (Pont du Gard) illustrating calcium deposits in water channel.
		Roman bridge (at least the lower structure), from NW Spain.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~atlas/europe/images.html (276 words)

	The Archaeological Site of Tiermes
		But the Romans who moved into Tiermes to construct their aqueducts, temples, theaters, and roads didn't destroy the original infrastructure as in the majority of the similar cases archaeologists have uncovered.
		The aqueduct, the life force of any Roman city, doesn't reach to the sky like its brothers in Segovia and Tarragona.
		Yes, the Romans built over the existing structures, but in many cases used the Celtiberian foundations and simply improved on them.
	www.archaeospain.com /tiermes/tiermes1.htm (276 words)

	Historic Atlas Resource - Europe
		Roman aqueduct (Pont du Gard) illustrating the levels of contruction.
		Roman aqueduct (Pont du Gard) illustrating calcium deposits in water channel.
		Roman bridge (at least the lower structure), from NW Spain.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~atlas/europe/images.html (276 words)

	SBF Glossary: V
		Since Roman aqueducts were (and in an instance or two still are) mostly open channels with a slight gradient to move the water along, they generally followed topographic contours.
		Such bridges are a frequent part of Roman aqueducts.
		Where a valley had to be crossed, the level of the aqueduct could be maintained by elevation on a bridge.
	www.plexoft.com /cgi-bin/V.cgi (13493 words)

	Aqueduct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roman-style aqueducts were used as early as the 7th century BC, when the Assyrians built a limestone aqueduct 30 feet (10 m) high and 900 feet (300 m) long to carry water across a valley to their capital city, Nineveh.
		The Catskill Aqueduct carries water to New York over a distance of 120 miles (190 km), but it is dwarfed by aqueducts in the far west of the country, most notably the Colorado River Aqueduct, which supplies the Los Angeles area with water from the Colorado River nearly 250 miles (400 km) to the east.
		The Eupalinian aqueduct on the Greek island of Samos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aqueduct (1250 words)

	Roman Aqueducts
		For most of their length the early aqueducts were simply channels bored through the rock, from the water intake in the hills almost to the distribution cistern in Rome.
		Where the aqueduct went through impermeable rock it was not lined, but where the rock was porous, and where the conduit ran on arches, a layer of impermeable concrete was applied to form a waterproof lining (opus signinum).
		Where two or more conduits ran near one another, as was common in later times, there were places in which water could be exchanged between them, either to increase the flow of an aqueduct carrying little water or so that one of the conduits could be emptied for maintenance and repair.
	www.inforoma.it /feature.php?lookup=aqueduct (594 words)

	Aqueduct - Mons - ProvenceBeyond
		This is obviously a very ancient (and we guess Roman) aqueduct coming down across the fields past the local areas of Riens and Les Ferrages to the village of Mons.
		This section of the aqueduct is about 50 m long and 12 m deep, and only 2 m wide.
		In some places the "wall" aqueduct is clearly rounded on top; in others it is squared off on top like a normal stone wall.
	www.beyond.fr /villages/monsaqueduct.html (599 words)

	Roman Aqueduct, Segovia Spain
		One of the greatest surviving monuments of Roman engineering, this aqueduct stretches from the walls of the old town to the edges of Sierra de Guadarrama.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/spain/segovia/aqueduct/aqueduct.html (204 words)

	NOVA Online Secrets of Lost Empires Roman Bath Watering Ancient Rome
		The hidden half of the water system—sewers—took aqueduct overflow and flushed the refuse into the river, which damaged the river, but kept the city of Rome clean.
		Peter Aicher, aqueduct expert, stands in front of Rome's Trevi fountain, which still relies on sections of an ancient aqueduct for its water.
		One of the first aqueducts in Rome was built entirely underground for security reasons.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/lostempires/roman/watering.html (755 words)

	Holy Land Photos
		The canal in the picture, which flows from right to left, is not associated with the aqueduct, but in Roman times, the aqueduct spanned this swampy area.
		View looking northwest at a portion of the well–preserved aqueduct as it passes through a low area. This low portion of the "U-shaped" siphon is 0.6 mi.
		For another view, and additional description, of the aqueduct as it passes through this low area click here.
	www.holylandphotos.org /browse.asp?ImageID=TCMCAP11&SiteID=54 (130 words)

	NOVA Online Secrets of Lost Empires Roman Bath Construct an Aqueduct
		Aqueducts are one of the wonders of the Roman Empire.
		In "Construct an Aqueduct," you are hired as Chief Water Engineer by the Roman Emperor.
		Your job: to build an aqueduct that will supply the Roman city of Aqueductis with clean water to private homes, public baths and glorious fountains.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/lostempires/roman/aqueduct.html (128 words)

	Roman aqueduct of Nikopolis
		he Roman aqueduct was constructed after the foundation of Nikopolis by Octavianus Augustus for the water supply of the new city.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21112n/e211ln07.html (109 words)

	Aqueduct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roman-style aqueducts were used as early as the 7th century BC, when the Assyrians built a limestone aqueduct 30 feet (10 m) high and 900 feet (300 m) long to carry water across a valley to their capital city, Nineveh.
		At Mainz are the ruins of an aqueduct 7000 yds.
		The Catskill Aqueduct carries water to New York over a distance of 120 miles (190 km), but it is dwarfed by aqueducts in the far west of the country, most notably the Colorado River Aqueduct, which supplies the Los Angeles area with water from the Colorado River nearly 250 miles (400 km) to the east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aqueduct (13343 words)

	A marvels of the ancient world: the roman aqueduct of Metz
		A marvels of the ancient world: the roman aqueduct of Metz
	www.ac-nancy-metz.fr /ia57/jussy/netsco/English/accueil.htm (21 words)

	Aqueduct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roman-style aqueducts were used as early as the 7th century BC, when the Assyrians built a limestone aqueduct 30 feet (10 m) high and 900 feet (300 m) long to carry water across a valley to their capital city, Nineveh.
		The Catskill Aqueduct carries water to New York over a distance of 120 miles (190 km), but it is dwarfed by aqueducts in the far west of the country, most notably the Colorado River Aqueduct, which supplies the Los Angeles area with water from the Colorado River nearly 250 miles (400 km) to the east.
		The Eupalinian aqueduct on the Greek island of Samos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aqueduct (1243 words)

	Eifel Aqueduct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eifel Aqueduct was one of the longest aqueducts of the Roman Empire.
		Before the building of the Eifel Aqueduct, Cologne got its water from the Vorgebirge aqueduct, which had its source in the springs and streams from the Ville region to the west of the city.
		The aqueduct began at a spring in the area of Nettersheim in the Urft river valley.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eifel_Aqueduct (2826 words)

	maps.html
		The aqueduct crosses into Manhattan within the Highbridge, which was built to look as much like an old Roman aqueduct as possible.
		The waviness of the aqueduct's path between Highbridge and 150th street indicates the waviness of the terrain; in much of this area, the aqueduct was essentially built into the side of the rocky hill that slants down very sharply toward the east river.
		It should be noted that the New Croton aqueduct follows a similar path, but is much deeper and thus has very little effect on the surface or surface building, except in the cases of pumping stations.
	www.undercity.org /stories/croton/maps/maps.html (2091 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: aqueduct @ HighBeam Research
		Portions of some of the original Roman aqueducts are still standing.
		AQUEDUCT [aqueduct] [Lat.,=conveyor of water], channel or trough built to convey water, chiefly for providing a densely populated region with a supply of freshwater.
		The flow in aqueducts is ordinarily by means of gravity, although pumps are often used.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:aqueduct&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (298 words)

	Spoleto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ponte delle torri, a striking 13th-century aqueduct, possibly on Roman foundations: whether it was first built by the Romans is a point on which scholarly opinion is divided.
		It was rebuilt starting in the 12th century (though the work dragged on until the 15th century), when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists; with S. Rufino in Assisi, it is the finest extant specimen of Umbrian Romanesque.
		Spoleto (Latin Spoletium) is an ancient town in the Italian province of Perugia in east central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spoleto (1539 words)

	Colosseum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Renaissance, but mostly in the Baroque age, the ruling Roman families (from which many popes came) used it as a source of marble for the construction of St.
		Recent archaeological research has shown evidence of drain pipes connected to the City's sewer system and a large underground holding tank connected to a nearby aqueduct.
		Amphitheatrum Flavium), is an amphitheatre in Rome, capable of seating 50,000 spectators, which was once used for gladiatorial combat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colosseum (1539 words)

	bmcr-9410-evans-roman.txt
		O'Connor's discussion of aqueduct bridges in Spain and Gaul is better, since he had access to the studies of Casado (Madrid, 1972) and Grenier (Paris, 1935), but this one adds very little that is new and might well have been omitted altogether.
		O'Connor organizes his study geographically (in contrast to the chronological organization followed by Gazzola) and therefore begins with an overview of the Roman road system, which determined the location of the bridges themselves: "Bridges and roads go together, for it is the roads which require the bridges, and the bridges make possible the roads (p.
		Chapters on Roman builders, technology, and building materials introduce the heart of the book, a survey of masonry bridges throughout the Roman world.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-9410-evans-roman.txt (1165 words)

	WaterHistory.org
		The bridge was a critical link in the aqueduct system which once supplied water to the ancient Roman city of Nesausas.
		In Roman times, the action inside the arena was brutal, bloody, and frequently involved conflict between some combination of gladiators and animals.
		The Roman ruins of Nesausas (modern-day Nimes) and Arelate (modern-day Arles) are located in France's Provence region.
	www.waterhistory.org /histories/nimes (1515 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canatha
		Among them are a Roman bridge and a rock-hewn theatre, with nine tiers of seats and an orchestra fifty-seven feet in diameter, also a nymphaeum, an aqueduct, a large prostyle temple with portico and colonnades, and a peripteral temple preceded by a double colonnade.
		The monument known as Es-Serai dates from the fourth century and was originally a temple, afterwards a Christian basilica.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03244a.htm (341 words)

	The History of Plumbing - Roman and English Legacy
		By the Middle Ages, the "hot houses" or "stews" of the Roman baths carried the stigma of debauchery and wild parties.
		The first sewers of Rome were built between 800 B.C. and 735 B.C., preceding the first aqueduct by about 500 years.
		Roman society, on the other hand, fostered a communal spirit, and barracks camaraderie for its troops.
	www.theplumber.com /eng.html (4233 words)

	Roman Baths
		All the baths were supplied with water every day from the River Sarno and the wells, and then later by the aqueduct, which brought water down from the hills.
		The Central Baths were situated in the centre of Pompeii and the Stabian Baths were the oldest of the three baths and was situated at the junction between two of Pompeii’s main roads — the via dell’Abbondanza and the Via Stabiana.
		Baths were thought to open after midday and stay open till late at night, we know this as archaeologists found numerous lamps in the Forum Baths.
	www.liverpoolcollege.org.uk /Classics/roman_baths.htm (733 words)

	definition of roman
		Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
		A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
		Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
	www.brainydictionary.com /words/ro/roman213971.html (255 words)

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