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  Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
In 61, while governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning in Wales, the south-east rose in revolt under Boudica, queen of the Iceni, provoked by the seizure of the tribe's lands and the brutal treatment of the queen and her daughters.
Roman coins and pottery are found circulating at native settlement sites in what are now the Scottish Lowlands in the years before 100, indicating growing Romanisation.
These four provinces were part of Diocletian's Tetrarchy reform in 293: Britannia became one of the four dioceses—governed by a vicarius—of the prætorian prefecture Galliae ('the Gauls', also comprising the provinces of Gaul, Germania and Hispania), after the abolition of the imperial tetrarchs under the Western Emperor (in Rome itself, later Ravenna).
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 Italia (Roman province)
In this sestertius of Antoninus Pius, the personification of Italia is depicted on reverse.
The institutions of the Roman republic, born for governing a city-state, were unfit to rule over such a large empire.
Furthermore, Roman citizenship was slowly extended to the provinces, and the rule of law became less arbitrary (although largely imperfect).
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 Roman Empire - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Roman Empire is also used as translation of the expression Imperium Romanum, probably the best known Latin 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 first and second Bulgarian empires, the Russian/Kiev dynasties, and the German Empire.
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.
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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.
Normally, the provinces where more trouble was expected — either from barbaric invasions or internal rebellions — were given to former consuls, men of the greatest prestige and experience.
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 Lycia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
It was the site of an ancient country and province of the Roman Empire.
In 43, the emperor Claudius annexed it to the Roman Empire and united it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.
Lycia, which had been under Rhodian control since the Peace of Apamea in 188 B.C., was granted independence by the Roman Empire at the conclusion of the Third Macedonian War.
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 ECONEMISIS.COM: Global Empire - Roman Empire
Roman Empire is also used as translation of the expression Imperium Romanum, probably the best known Latin expression where the word imperium is used in the meaning of a territory, the "Roman Empire", as that part of the world under Roman rule.
Roman titles of power were adopted by most of the successor states and later entities with imperial pretensions, including the Frankish kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the Bulgarian Empires, the Russian/Kiev dynasties, and the German Empire.
The Western Roman Empire was divided among the eldest son Constantine II and the youngest son Constans.
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 Judea -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In modern times, the name "Yehudah" may be used by Hebrew speakers to refer to a large southern section of Israel and the West Bank, or in the combined term Judea and Samaria to refer specifically to the West Bank.
The name Judea is a Greek and Roman adaptation of the name Judah and was originally applied to the whole of historic Palestine, but by the time of the New Testament it had been limited in scope to the south of the region.
In historic times, Judea was ruled by the Kingdom of Judah and later by the Kingdom of Judea, a client-kingdom of the Seleucid dynasty of Persia.
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 Roman Empire - Deistpedia, the Deist encyclopedia
The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Augustus), until its radical reformation in what was later to be known as the Byzantine 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.
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 "Christ" mas Day, though the empire and the imperial office did not become formalized for some decades.
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 The Jewish Roman War - Jewish Revolts - Historic Real Treasures Coins & Coin Jewelry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The first Jewish-Roman War (66—73 CE), sometimes called the Great Jewish Revolt, was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews of Iudaea Province against the Roman Empire (the second was the Kitos War in 115-117, the third was Bar Kokhba's revolt in 132-135).
The defeat of the Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire notably contributed to the numbers and geography of the Jewish Diaspora, as many Jews were scattered after losing their state or were sold to slavery throughout the empire.
In an act of defiance, the son of high priest Eliezar ben Hanania ceased prayers and sacrifices for the Roman Emperor at the Temple and subsequently led a successful attack on the Roman garrison stationed in Jerusalem.
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 Year of the Four Roman Emperors - Crystalinks
From the remoter provinces, which had acquiesced in his accession, little help was to be expected; but the legions of Dalmatia, Pannonia and Moesia were eager in his cause, the pretorian cohorts were in themselves a formidable force and an efficient fleet gave him the mastery of the Italian seas.
Aulus Vitellius Germanicus (September 24 AD 15­December 22, 69) was Roman Emperor from April 17 69 to December 22 of the same year, one of the emperors in the "Year of the four emperors".
Flavia died before Vespasian became emperor; therafter his mistress, Caenis, was his wife in all but name until she died in 74.Upon the accession of Claudius as emperor in 41, Vespasian was appointed legate of the Legio II Augusta, stationed in Germania, thanks to the influence of the Imperial freedman Narcissus.
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 Masada - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew ????, Mitzada, from ?????, metzuda, "fortress") is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel on top of an isolated rock plateau on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea.
In 72, the Roman governor of Iudaea, Lucius Flavius Silva, marched against Masada with the Roman legion X Fretensis and laid siege to the fortress.
Some historians also believe that Romans may have used Jewish slaves to build the rampart, whom the Zealots were reluctant to kill because of their beliefs.
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 Greek & Roman Antiquities - Articles - Ancient Rulers - Emperor Nero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
These works were mainly written by the Roman historians Suetonius and Tacitus, both of whom were of Senatorial rank, and who wrote half a century after the events they describe.
Roman historians report nights of drunken revelry and violence while more mundane matters of politics were neglected.
It was considered shameful for a Roman emperor to appear as a public entertainer, acting, singing, and playing his lyre.
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 Mauretania - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
With the rise of the Roman Empire, Mauretania became a Roman client kingdom.
When Juba died in 23, his Roman-educated son Ptolemy of Mauretania succeeded him on the throne, but Caligula killed him in 40 and annexed Mauretania directly as a Roman province in 42, under an imperial (not senatorial) governor.
Since emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy (293), the country was further divided in three provinces, as the small, easternmost region Sitifensis was split off from Mauretania Caesariensis.
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 Judaea, Palaestina
However, Roman involvement started long before AD 6, and it was at the request of aggressive Jewish factions coveting the thrown.
The official declaration of war came with the suspension of the sacrifice for the welfare of the emperor and the Roman Empire.
The relationship between the Roman Empire and Judea was upheld until Judea was conquered by the Arabs in 638.
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 The Name Rome Gave the Land of Israel
Judea (Iudaea) was the Roman name for the Land of Israel during the heyday of the Roman Empire.
For the Greek Polybius and the Roman Livy, it refers to the area between Egypt and northern Syria, the long-disputed battleground of rival Macedonian dynasties, the Seleucids in Syria and the Ptolemies in Egypt.
By the time the Romans conquered the country, in 63 BCE, the kingdom of Judea, ruled by the Hasmonean dynasty, stretched along both sides of the Jordan and controlled, besides Judea proper, most of the coastal plain, Samaria, most of the Galilee, and the Golan Heights.
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 Judea Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
In modern times, the name "Yehudah" may be used by Hebrew speakers to refer to a large southern section of Israel and the West Bank, or in the combined term Judea and Samaria to refer specifically to the West Bank area south of Jerusalem.
After the failed rebellion of Bar Kokhba (132-135 AD) the Roman Emperor Hadrian determined to wipe out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea, and began using the name "Palastina" to describe all the land of Israel, until that time the area was called "province of Judea" by the Romans.
The Romans killed many Jews and sold many more in slavery; many Jews departed into the Jewish diaspora, but there was never a complete abandonment of the Land.
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 Italia (Roman province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Italia, under the Roman Republic and later Empire, was the Italian peninsula from Rubicon to Calabria.
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 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.
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 Africa
The decision to administer these as "provinces" caused a political crisis, and marked a turning point in Roman history, when the Republic started down the road to Empire.
The Romans were able to win allies of their own against Carthage and Macedonia, including the African kingdom of Numidia, the Greeks, the Thracians, the Illyrians and Pergamum.
The Romans accepted a less than advantageous peace with Macedonia in the treaty of Phoenice, which allowed them to focus on the war against Carthage.
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 Dalmatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the tectonical sense, Orjen is the highest mountain of austro-Hungarian province Dalmatia, while Biokovo is the highest mountain of the administrative unit of Split-Dalmatia county.
After the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476, with the beginning of the Migration Period, the region was ruled by the Goths up to 535, when Justinian I added it to the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire.
In 1922, the Dalmatia region was divided into two provinces, the District of the City of Split (Splitska oblast), with capital in Split, and the District of the City of Dubrovnik (Dubrovačka oblast), with capital in Dubrovnik.
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 70 FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Roman general and future Roman Emperor, Titus Flavius, destroys the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, leaving erect only the famous Western Wall.
Roman legions V ''Alaudae'' and XV ''Primigeniae'' are destroyed during the Batavian rebellion.
Romans make a punitive expedition against Garamantes - they are forced to have an official relationship with the Empire.
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 PISIDIA : Encyclopedia Entry
Pisidia officially passed from the Selucids to the Attalids as a result of the Treaty of Apamea, forced on Antiochos III of Syria by the Romans in 188 BC.
After Attalos III, the last king of Pergamon, bequeathed his kingdom to Rome in 133 BC as the province of Asia, Pisidia was given to the Kingdom of Cappadocia, which proved unable to govern it.
During the Roman period Pisidia was colonized the area with veterans of its legions to maintain control.
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 Article: The City of Eleutheropolis (by Amos Kloner)
A building of the late Roman period, made of large ashlar blocks, adjacent to the modern road, where a wide double arch rising above the road is still visible.
It was built during the late Roman period on undisturbed soil and continued in use during the Byzantine period.
The fourth building is the Roman amphitheater, which was built on flat land on the northwest outskirts of the city.
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 pontius_pilate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Pilate's biographical details before and after his appointment to Iudaea are unknown, but have been supplied by tradition, which include the detail that his wife's name was Procula (she is canonised as a saint in Orthodox Christianity) and competing legends of his birthplace.
In the first historical period in which the setting of the New Testament became the Roman Judaea Province (a compound of Samaria, Judea and Idumea), from 6 to the outbreak of the First Jewish Revolt in 66, officials of the equestrian order (the lower rank of governors) governed.
Roman magistrates had wide discretion in executing their tasks, and some readers question whether Pilate would have been so captive to the demands of the crowd (Miller, 49–50).
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 Sanhedrin - Christianity Knowledge Base - A Wikia wiki
But, because the Sanhedrin was not of Roman authority, it could not condemn criminals to death, according to John 18:31, but this claim is disputed.
Circa 30, the Gospels continues, Jesus was brought before the Roman governor of Iudaea Province, Pontius Pilate, for decision.
This authority was reinforced by the official sanction of the imperial Roman government and legislation.
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 Palestine - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After approximately a century of independence, control of the kingdom fell to the Roman Empire under the Roman army of Pompey and became first a Roman client kingdom and then a Roman Province.
Roman Iudaea Province in the 1st century CE.
Since its 1516 incorporation in the Ottoman Empire, it was part of the vilayet (province) of Damascus-Syria until 1660, next of the vilayet of Saida (seat in Lebanon), shortly interrupted by the 7 March 1799 - July 1799 French occupation of Jaffa, Haifa, and Caesarea.
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 Judaea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
But in 63 BC Pompey at teh head of a Roman army in Syria, was asked to intervene in a civil war in Judaea and did so, besieged Jerusalem, took it and installed Hyrcanus as king.
From then on, Judaea was a protectorate of Rome; it enjoyed its own rule, though fell under the military influence of he empire.
Alas, in AD 6 emperor Augustus deposed king Archelaus and annexed Judaea as a province into the empire.
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