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	Roman Britain
		Heavy military defeats on the Danube forced the Romans to withdraw part of their army from Britain in 87 or 88, and as a result most forts beyond the Cheviots were abandoned.
		The Romans abandoned the Antonine Wall, withdrawing south of the better-built, more easily defended barrier of Hadrian, but by the end of the fourth century, the last remaining outposts in Caledonia were abandoned.
		The Belgae were an amalgamation of Belgic states created by the Romans and initially ruled by the client-king Cogidubnus from Noviomagus [Chichester] on the south coast.
	www.unrv.com /provinces/britannia.php (1213 words)

	Bambooweb: Roman Emperor
		"Roman Emperor" is the title historians use to refer to the ruler of the Roman Empire.
		Discussion of Roman Emperors involves a high degree of historian's editorial discretion, for the Romans themselves did not share the modern understanding of the monarchical concepts of "empire" and "emperor" (note that the Empire had all the political institutions and traditions of the Roman Republic, including the Senate and assemblies).
		This line of Roman emperors was actually generally German rather than Roman, but maintained their Romanness as a matter of principle; it lasted until 1806 when Franz II dissolved the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/r/o/Roman_Emperor.html (4965 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The concept of the Roman Empire was renewed in the West with the coronation of the king of the Franks, Charlemagne, as Roman emperor by the Pope on Christmas Day, 800.
		This line of Roman emperors was actually generally German rather than Roman, but maintained their Romanness as a matter of principle; it lasted until 1806 when Francis II dissolved the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
		He was the last Emperor to rule over a united empire; the distribution of the East to his son Arcadius and the West to his son Honorius after his death in 395 represented a permanent division.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Roman_Emperor (3848 words)

	Roman Empire 1 - Crystalinks
		Roman imperialism introduced extremes of wealth and poverty that sharpened social and economic conflict within the Roman state.
		Some Romans complained that the loss of liberty was too great a price to pay for peace, but most recognized that under the so-called liberty of the Roman Republic, a few hundred men had divided the spoils of empire while the workers and the provincials suffered.
		Farming was the basis of the Roman economy.
	www.crystalinks.com /romanempire.html (3007 words)

	Roman Empire - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The Romans and their empire gave cultural and political shape to the subsequent history of Europe from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present day.
		The Roman Empire encompassed a huge amount of territory, but also allowed people of many different cultures to retain their heritage into modern times.
		The Romans formed that synthesis during the longest continuous period of peaceful prosperity that the Mediterranean world has ever known.
	encarta.msn.com /text_1741502785___1/Roman_Empire.html (601 words)

	Roman Empire - Deistpedia, the Deist encyclopedia
		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 "Christ" mas Day, though the empire and the imperial office did not become formalized for some decades.
	www.templeofreason.org /test7/Roman_Empire.htm (8335 words)

	TVM Entry Floor: Ancient Art: Roman Art
		To celebrate and commemorate emperors, generals, and other important civic individuals and their triumphs and contributions to the general good the state decorated cities with triumphal arches, temples, and memorial structures, both as art and as political propaganda.
		Literature shows that by the middle of the 2nd century BC the Roman forum was thronged with honorific statues of Roman magistrates, which, although none of them has survived, may be assumed to have been carved or cast by Greeks because no native Roman school of sculptors of that time is known.
		Antinoös, the boy friend of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, was born in the town of Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the Greek province of Bithynia on the northwest coast of Asia Minor.
	www.tigtail.org /TIG/S_View/TVM/E/Ancient/Roman/roman_art.html (1749 words)

	Roman Empire at AllExperts
		Based in Roman legal and cultural traditions, it was also heavily influenced by ancient Greek culture and language, and developed a distinct character that managed to survive and even thrive for another millennium, eventually being conquered on 29 May 1453 by the Ottoman Empire.
		The Western Roman Empire was divided among the eldest son Constantine II and the youngest son Constans.
		But excluding these states claiming their heritage, the Roman state lasted (in some form) 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 conquest by the Ottomans in 1453), for a total of 2214 years.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/ro/roman_empire.htm (11035 words)

	Roman Emperor information - Search.com
		This line of Roman emperors was actually generally German rather than Roman, but maintained their Romanness as a matter of principle; it lasted until 1806 when Francis II dissolved the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
		This Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an end when the emperor Nero—a great-great-grandson of Augustus through his daughter and of Livia through her son—was deposed in AD Nero was followed by a succession of usurpers throughout 69, commonly called the "Year of the Four Emperors".
		He was the last Emperor to rule over a united empire; the distribution of the East to his son Arcadius and the West to his son Honorius after his death in 395 represented a permanent division.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Roman_Emperor (3302 words)

	The Lessons of the Roman Empire for America Today
		The Roman emperors believed that it was part of their mission to foster the culture of others.
		So Roman emperors built temples to the gods of Gaul, to the gods of Egypt—in fact, most of the great temples you see today as you go up the Nile are results of the Roman age in Egypt.
		This was the age of Roman jurists like Ulpian, who founded the law of this empire on the ideals of natural law, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
	www.heritage.org /Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/hl917.cfm (4782 words)

	Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
		Emperors are commonly known by particular parts of their names, or by nicknames, e.g.
		Decius and Herennius were killed in battle by the Goths in 251 -- the only Roman Emperors to die in battle (against external enemies) besides Julian (against the Persians, 363), Valens (against the Goths again, 378), Nicephorus I (against the Bulgars, 811), and Constantine XI (with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, 1453).
		This was the end of Roman Gaul, 541 years after Caesar had completed its conquest in 56 BC -- or perhaps 531 years since the defeat, capture, and death of the rebel Vercingetorix in 46 BC.
	www.friesian.com /romania.htm (14286 words)

	The Holy Roman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Holy Roman Empire was the medieval state that embraced most of central Europe and Italy under the rule of the German kings from 962 to 1806.
		The churchmen who crowned the emperors, and thus actually sustained the Empire, considered it to be the church's secular arm, sharing responsibility for the welfare and spread of the Christian faith and duty-bound to protect the Papacy.
		The emperors were unable to restrain the German nobles or to resist French encroachments on the western frontiers of the empire, and the Slavic rulers in the east rejected all imperial overlordship.
	www.serendipity.li /twz/hre.html (1519 words)

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		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).
		Nor was the influence of Christianity confined to the period or to the limits of the Roman empire.
		By the industry and zeal of the Europeans it has been widely diffused to the most distant shores of Asia and Africa; and by the means of their colonies has been firmly established from Canada to Chili, in a world unknown to the ancients.
	www.lycos.com /info/roman-empire--western-europe.html (703 words)

	The Roman Empire:18 centuries in 19 maps
		The Roman province of Asia was over-run and 60 000 Romans executed.
		As the first Emperor of Rome he was careful nevertheless to maintain the institutions of the Republic, and the fiction of their role in government.
		The Roman Empire in the West ceased to exist in 1282, when the Emperor Rudolph of Hapsburg recognized the Pope's declaration of independence of the Papal States in 1278.
	www.cit.gu.edu.au /~s285238/Roman/19Maps.html (5688 words)

	Life in the Roman Empire
		Romans enjoyed over 1101 years of dominance (from 625 BC to 476 AD), and are accredited with being the first ancient culture to "conquer the known world".
		Roman clothing was much more elaborate than just a bunch of people in "bed sheet togas" as depicted in Hollywood adolescent movies.
		The Roman military leaders knew that the "backside" of any soldier (Roman or other) was the most vulnerable area to deliver a fatal blow and exploited it in the training of each Roman soldier.
	www.realarmorofgod.com /roman-era.html (1880 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Diocletian
		In 282, the legions of the upper Danube proclaimed the praetorian prefect Carus as emperor.
		Diocletian found favor under the new emperor, and was promoted to Count of the Domestics, the commander of the cavalry arm of the imperial bodyguard.
		In 286, Diocletian promoted Maximianus to the rank of Augustus, "Senior Emperor," and in 293 he appointed two new Caesars, Constantius (the father of Constantine I), who was given Gaul and Britain in the west, and Galerius, who was assigned the Balkans in the east.
	www.roman-emperors.org /dioclet.htm (1592 words)

	Roman Emperor Constantine, Preterist Christian \| Study Archive
		As the image of the emperor most commonly seen by the public, the portrait of the emperor reproduced on the imperial coinage was considered to be of the utmost importance.
		The pagan Emperor was never clearly distinguished in nature from the deity whose vice-regent he was: hence the divine attributes and all his pomp and state.
		The magnificent silver medallion, whose obverse and reverse depict the conquest and liberation of the city, was probably struck at the mint of Ticinum (near modern Milan) as early as 313: and on the obverse the monogram appears, on the crested plume of Constantine’s helmet.
	preteristarchive.com /Theo-Political_Empire/Roman/StudyArchive/constantine_preterist.html (4728 words)

	Princeps at AllExperts
		It was first given to the Emperor Augustus in 23 BC, who wisely saw that use of the titles rex 'king' or dictator would create resentment amongst senators and other influential men, who had earlier demonstrated their disapproval by supporting the assassination of Julius Caesar.
		The word Emperor itself is derived from the Roman title imperator, which was a very high, but not exclusive, military title until Augustus began to use it as his praenomen.
		The Emperor Diocletian (285-305), the father of the Tetrarchy, was the first to stop referring to himself as "princeps" altogether, calling himself dominus ("Lord, master"), thus dropping a style- pretense that emperor was not truly a monarchical office.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pr/princeps.htm (617 words)

	Anno Urbis - The Roman Empire Online
		The Roman administration became responsible for defending the city from the barbarian tribes.
		In the mid-60s AD the legate of the Roman province of Moesia, Tiberius Plautius Silvanus, aided Chersonesos in defeating the barbarians who were threatening the city.
		After these events the Roman authorities started to intervene in the internal politics of Chersonesos more forcefully, a circumstance which was reflected in the issue of coinage.
	www.annourbis.com (1545 words)

	Roman Empire-Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This got the soldiers out of politics to a large degree, since their futures were made certain; this treasury was kept full with a 5% tax on the estates of Roman citizens (an inheritance tax) and a 1% general sales tax.
		Appearances of constitutionality were preserved by making senior Roman senators the Commissioners of The Military Treasury--but the Emperor always took care to choose and recommend reliable and cooperative senators (ex-praetors) to the job.
		Legally, there was no throne; the Emperor was only a magistrate with very wide special grants of traditional powers, and every time a new emperor came to power the Senate and People had to pass a special law, authorizing new grants of power (a lex de imperio).
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/empire-notes.html (1225 words)

	Avitus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		However, the news of Petronius Maximus' death reached Avitus, as he was a guest at the court of Theodoric II in AD 455.
		Not only had their consent not be sought, but their new emperor owed his accession more to the Visigoths than to anyone else.
		Yet a far greater problem at that time was Geiseric, who had, after sacking Rome, remained as hostile as ever and had even left behind a fleet to dominate the coasts of the empire.
	www.roman-empire.net /collapse/avitus.html (729 words)

	About the Exhibition \| Ink & Blood \| Dead Sea Scrolls to Gutenberg
		Emperor Constantine I (c.280—337 A.D.) converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Christians throughout the Roman Empire.
		Constantinople was the capital city of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) until finally being conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
		The Western Roman Empire would not be united again until the Middle Ages when Charlemagne “Charles the Great” was made Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III on December 25, 800.
	www.inkandblood.com /exhibit/overview (1175 words)

	Classic Pilgrimages - Rome, A Brief History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the 8th century B.C., Rome quickly evolved into the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic three centuries later, and finally, the Roman Empire in 31 B.C. In its territorial peak, the Roman Empire was the most dominate, largest, and longest-lasting empire of the Western world.
		It was Emperor Constantine who recognized Christianity as a religion, and it was he who initiated the mass construction of basilicas and churches throughout Rome.
		And though the decline of the Western Roman Empire oscillated between Byzantine rule and plundering Germanic tribes, the roots of the Papacy took hold of the civil authority in Rome.
	www.classic-pilgrimages.com /rome-information.asp (1010 words)

	UNRV History - Roman Empire
		The late Roman Empire if anything, can be characterized by a pattern of gradual destabilization by the erosion of the old established ideals, be they governmental form, religion or cultural infrastructure.
		There are several very basic truths that must be borne in mind when analyzing the use of historical seaborne forces, firstly the fact that the archaeological record tends to be scarce due to 1.
		Of all defiant characters who took up arms against Rome during her rise to dominate the ancient world, few have left such an admirable and virtuous impression on the history books as the Lusitanian guerrilla leader named Viriathus.
	www.unrv.com /news_archive-200607.htm (1108 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christendom
		churches and the property of the clergy, and the principle admitted by the emperors that questions of faith were to be freely decided by the bishops — all these concessions seemed to show that the empire had become positively as well as negatively Christian.
		Italian cities, he led one emperor to the South of Italy and sent another on a crusade of the East; more wonderful still, single-handed he pursued the Roman people to forsake the antipope.
		It had been the practice to speak of the spiritual and temporal powers in terms of pope and emperor, and it was long before it was realized, at least on the papal side, that the civil power, defeated as emperor, had returned to the attack with more aggressive vigour as the Monarchy and the State.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03699b.htm (5880 words)

	Rome Tourism Services - Roman Castles Landscapes
		Nemi with its volcanic lake, where in Roman times were floating two 200 feet-long boats used for religious purposes near the pagan sanctuary of goddess Diana Nemorensis.
		This palace dominates the town, hovering above the central piazza in faded splendor.
		The chief appeal of an excursion is the relaxing ambience, fine feasting, and wandering around the evocative medieval streets and the faded grandeur of the aristocratic past.
	www.rometourismservices.com /OUTSKIRTS/castles.htm (765 words)

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