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  [Italia (Roman province)] | [All the best Italia (Roman province) resources at karaoke.velocityincome.com]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
Italia, under the Roman Republic and later Empire, was the name of the Italian peninsula.
Italia (Roman province) Italia in 2nd and 3rd centuries Italia in 2nd and 3rd centuries In this sestertius of Antoninus Pius, the personification of Italia is depicted on reverse.
Northern Italia is attacked by Attila's Huns, and Rome is sacked again by the Visigoths under the command of Alaric I in 410.
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  Italia (Roman province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the Republic, Italia was not a province, but rather the territory of the city of Rome, thus having a special status: for example, military commanders were not allowed to bring their armies within Italia, and Julius Caesar act of passing the Rubicon with his legions marked the start of the civil war.
Italia in 2nd and 3rd centuries CE When the Roman citizenship was given to all the Empire, the Italian province started its decline, in favour of richer provinces.
Italia in 4th and 5th centuries CE When the barbarians became the most important problem, the Emperors were obliged to move out of Rome, and even in other provinces, thus increasing even more the decline of Italia.
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 Roman province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Provinces were generally governed by politicians of senatorial rank, usually former consuls or former praetors.
Under the Roman Republic, the governor of a province was appointed for a period of one year.
The remaining provinces were maintained as Senatorial provinces, in which the Senate had the right to appoint a governor.
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 Asia Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
The Roman province of Asia was the administrative unit added to the late Republic, a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul who was an ex-consul, an honor granted only to Asia and the other rich province of Africa.
The arrangement was unchanged in the reorganization of the Roman Empire of 211 CE.
After 326 AD, when the Emperor Constantine I moved the capital to Byzantium, which he refounded, the province of Asia was more centrally situated than ever, and remained a center of Roman and Hellenistic culture in the east for centuries, and the territory remained part of the Byzantine Empire until the 15th century.
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 Dacia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
The second one was the Roman province Dacia Trajana, established as a consequence of the Dacian Wars during 101-106, comprising of the regions known today as Banat, Oltenia and Transylvania.
The third one was the Roman province Dacia Aureliana, reorganised inside former Moesia Superior after the abandonment of former Dacia to the Goths and Carpi in 271.
The Roman Province Dacia is represented on Roman Sestertius (coin) as a woman seated on a rock, holding aquila, a small child on her knee holding ears of grain, and a small child seated before her holding grapes.
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 Cyrenaica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
Roman province of Cyrenaica, 120 AD Cyrenaica was a Roman province on the northern coast of Africa between Egypt and Numidia; it had been formerly Greek.
The province consisted classically of five cities, the — Cyrene (near the village of Shahat) with its port of Apollonia (Marsa Susa), Arsinoe (Tocra), Berenice (Benghazi) and Barca (Merj)— of which the chief was the eponymous Cyrene.
Although some confusion exists as to the exact territory Rome inherited, by 78 BC it was organised as a province with Crete, until the reforms of Diocletian in 300 changed all of the provincial administrations.
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 Roman Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
Roman titles of power were adopted by successor states and other entities with imperial pretensions, including the Frankish kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the first and second Bulgarian empires (see List of Bulgarian monarchs), the Russian/Kiev dynasties (see czars), and the German Empire (see Kaiser).
The Holy Roman Empire, an attempt to resurrect the Empire in the West, was established in 800 when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, though the empire and the imperial office did not become formalized for some decades.
But excluding these states claiming their heritage, the Romans lasted, from the founding of Rome in 753 BC, to the fall in 1461 of the Empire of Trebizond (a successor state and fragment of the Byzantine Empire, which escaped destruction by the Ottomans in 1453), for a total of 2214 years.
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 Lusitania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
Roman province of Lusitania, 120 AD Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal and part of western current Spain (specifically the present autonomous community Extremadura), named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people.
Romans scored other victories with proconsul Decimus Junius Brutus and Marius (113 BC), but still the Lusitani resisted with a long guerrilla war; they later joined Sertorius' troops and were finally exterminated by Augustus.
Near modern Coimbra, the Roman city of Conimbriga was not the largest city of Lusitania, but it is the best preserved.
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 Noricum - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
It was bounded on the north by the Danube, on the west by Raetia and Vindelicia, on the east by Pannonia, on the south by Pannonia, Italia and Dalmatia.
It was not until the reign of Marcus Antoninus that the legion II Pia (afterwards called Italica) was stationed at Noricum, and the commander of the legion became the governor of the province.
The Roman colonies and chief towns were Virunum (Maria Saal near Klagenfurt (Clagenfurtum, Celovec)), Ovilava (Wels), Celeia (Celje), Juvavum (Salzburg), Lauriacum (Lorch, at the mouth of the Enns, the ancient Anisus).
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 Roman Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
Roman Empire is also used as translation of the expression Imperium#Territories, probably the best known Latin (language) expression where the word "imperium" is used in the meaning of a territory, the "Roman Empire", as that part of the world where Rome ruled.
Roman titles of power were adopted by successor states and other entities with imperial pretensions, including the Frankish kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the History of Bulgaria, the History of Russia dynasties, and the German Empire.
From 166, Roman embassies to China, first sent under the reign of Antonius Pius and probably traveling on the southern sea route, are recorded in Chinese historical sources such as the Later Han History.
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 SIGNA ROMANORVM - Bullettin no.1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
Boisseron bridge (ancient city of Boissedono), on the Benovie river, in the Narbonense Roman province, of I century BC; it is 166 feet long.
in Medinaceli (ancient Ocilis), in the Roman province of Tarraconensis, it is 27,8 feet high and 43 feet wide, and dedicated to Lucius and Gaius, nephews of Augustus.
in Merida (Emerita Augusta), capital city of the Roman province of Lusitania; the arch, called "of Traianus", is 49,2 feet high and 42,6 feet wide, with its vault 29,5 feet high.
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 Italia
The Italian tribes weren't completely incorporated as Roman citizens until the late era of the Fall of the Republic and the Imperial regime.
Prior to citizenship, the class status of the tribes was determined on a tribe by tribe, or according to region and town basis.
Once Roman authority was established in neighboring provinces such as Gaul, Hispania and on the Greek Peninsula, standing armies were not garrisoned in Italy, unless forced to by necessity.
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 Visigoth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
While settled in the former Roman province of Dacia during the third century, the Visigoths adopted Arianism, a branch of Christianity that believed that Jesus Christ was not God, but a separate being created directly beneath God.
There they remained until 376, when one of their two leaders, Fritigern, appealed to the Roman emperor Valens to be allowed to settle with his people on the south bank of the Danube.
Finally, after the western generalissimo Stilicho was murdered by Honorius in 408 and the Roman legions massacred the families of 30,000 barbarian soldiers serving in the Roman army, Alaric declared war.
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 ROMAN PROVINCE FACTS AND INFORMATION
In Ancient_Rome, a province (Latin, ''provincia'', pl. ''provinciae'') was the largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's foreign possessions (those beyond the Italian_peninsula).
The emperor Diocletian introduced a radical reform known as the ''Tetrarchy'' (284-305), with a western and eastern Augustus or senior emperor, each seconded by a junior emperor (and designated successor) or Caesar, and each of these four defending and administering a quarter of the empire.
Originally there was a single diocese of Italia, but it was later divided.
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 Encyclopedia: Albanian language
Due to the heavy influence of the Italian and Greek languages with which they have come into contact, they have diverged significantly from standard Albanian and are regarded by their speakers as distinct languages.
Some of these words have cognates in Romanian and there is a theory that the language spoken by the Dacians before the Romanization was a language related to proto-Albanian.
With the expansion of the Roman Empire, Latin, more specifically, the Balkan Latin (which was the ancestor of Romanian), would exert a great influence on Albanian.
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 Roman province -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
Provinces were generally governed by politicians of (Click link for more info and facts about senatorial) senatorial rank, usually former (A diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country) consuls or former (An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic) praetors.
Normally, the provinces where more trouble was expected - either from barbaric invasions or internal rebellions - were given to former (A diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country) consuls, men of the greatest prestige and experience.
The remaining provinces were maintained as (Click link for more info and facts about Senatorial provinces) Senatorial provinces, in which the Senate had the right to appoint a governor.
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 Articles - Legio II Parthica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
Legio II Parthica was a Roman legion levied by emperor Septimius Severus in 197 AD, for his campaign against the Parthian Empire of Iran, hence the cognomen Parthica.
Since it was not garrisoning a Roman province, their functioned both as a reserve that could be used in afflicted parts of the Empire, as well as a security element against possible internal rebellions.
In 360, the Shapur II of Persia attacked and conquered the Roman fortified city of Bezabde (modern Cizre, in Turkey), which was defended by II Partica, II Armeniaca and II Flavia Virtutis (Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, xx 7).
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 About CESNUR - Cosa è il CESNUR
In Italia il CESNUR collabora regolarmente con gli organismi legislativi e la pubblica amministrazione.
Periodicamente seminari di studio, conferenze o convegni sono organizzati dalle singole branche della rete internazionale del CESNUR in vari paesi, anche in sede istituzionale (così, un seminario è stato organizzato presso il Parlamento Europeo a Strasburgo) e soprattutto in Italia.
While established in 1988 by scholars who were mostly Roman Catholic, CESNUR has had from its very beginning boards of directors including scholars of a variety of religious persuasions.
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 The World of the Imperium Romanum
As contrasted with Ægyptus, for example, or most any Roman province, the lands of Arabia are much more homogeneous in population.
Its religion and its language (a southwest Semitic tongue related to the later Classical Arabic) are both unfamiliar, though closely related to those of the north, and there is little contact across the desert except as mediated through the various nomadic peoples.
In 106 Trajan annexed the kindom and established it as the Roman province of Arabia.
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 PROVINCIA ITALIA - Nova Roma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
Been born in the 138 a.C. from a decayed family patrizia, Lucio Cornelio Silla lend the first military service under the commando of Mario in Africa (where it was put in light making captive Giugurta) and Gallia.
As legatus in social war (90-89) he was most skillful between generates them roman engages to you in the southern area of the peninsula.
For this reason it obtained the consulate in the 88 and the commando of the war against Mitridate, than in that year he had invaded the roman province of Asia.
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Becoming Caesar Conquering all the provinces in the world is not enough to achieve the ultimate rank of Caesar - after all, Roman emperors were worshipped as gods.
Note: If you're protecting a Roman province from a marauding army and you order your entire army off the field, the people of the region will rise up and annihilate your army.
Elephants The Romans discovered that the sheer size and strangeness of elephants were enough to set ranks of men and horses in disorder.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Gregory the Great
He was in fact the chief adviser and assistant of Pelagius II, towards whom he seems to have acted very much in the capacity of secretary (see the letter of the Bishop of Ravenna to Gregory, Epp., III, lxvi, "Sedem apostolicam, quam antae moribus nunc etiam honore debito gubernatis").
Chiefly remarkable is the preacher's mastery of the Bible, which he quotes unceasingly, and his regular use of anecdote to illustrate the point in hand, in which respect he paves the way for the popular preachers of the Middle Ages.
He was a trained Roman lawyer and administrator, a monk, a missionary, a preacher, above all a physician of souls and a leader of men.
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 Itineraries - Sicilia - The Etnea province - The Etna
Legend has it that this town where different races have mixed in harmony over the centuries was founded by the giant Piracomone, with the help of his brothers, Bronte and Sterpe.
Greeks, Romans, Normans, Swabians, Anjouans, Aragonese and Longobards have all left their mark on this town, on the people and their language, and the various influence can still be seen today.
Charles V stopped at Randazzo in 1536: fascinated by the town's beauty, he left funds and donations to enrich the splendid church of St. Nicholas which, along with the Swabian basilica of St. Mary and St. Martin's church, adds a majestic touch to this exquisite town.
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 Roman Emperors DIR Basil II
From such evidence it appears that Preslav (renamed Theodoropolis by Tzimisces) in eastern Bulgaria became the centre of a Byzantine province.
Roman forts on the Danube were rebuilt to defend Bulgaria from further Rus attack.
Apart from a permanent garrison at Skopje operating under the authority of a regional military commander, Byzantium's military presence in the Balkans was soon modified.
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