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	Kef - LoveToKnow 1911
		It occupies the site of the Roman colony of Sicca Veneria, and is built on the steep slope of a rock in a mountainous region through which flows the Mellegue, an affluent of the Mejerda.
		The Roman remains include fragments of a large temple dedicated to Hercules, and of the baths.
		The Roman colony of Sicca Veneria appears from the character of its worship of Venus (Val.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kef (396 words)

	Roman Revolution and Civil Wars by Sanderson Beck
		Roman envoys demanded both sides put down their arms and persuaded Adherbal to surrender; but he was killed, and Jugurtha also massacred the Italians there.
		In Asia he found that Roman money-lending at high interest had driven their war debts up to a staggering 120,000 talents; Lucullus reduced the obligation to 40,000 and arranged for it all to be paid within four years, saving the Asians from bankruptcy but causing resentment among equestrian capitalists.
		Many Roman officers resented the presence of the Egyptian queen; the ships of Cleopatra and Antony were able to break out, but most of the others did not; as the royal couple sailed for Egypt, their forces deserted to Octavian.
	www.san.beck.org /EC25-RomanRevolution.html (12201 words)

	COLONY - Definition
		A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
		The city of Philippi was a Roman colony (Acts 16:12), i.e., a military settlement of Roman soldiers and citizens, planted there to keep in subjection a newly-conquered district.
		A colony was Rome in miniature, under Roman municipal law, but governed by military officers (praetors and lictors), not by proconsuls.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/colony (331 words)

	Sandys Timelines for Ancient Roman History
		Foundation of Latin colonies at Velitrae and Suessa Pometia (among the Volsci).
		Foundation of the Latin colony at Sutrium in Etruria.
		Latin colonies founded at Suessa Aurunca, and on the island of Pontiae, and at Saticula (in Samnium).
	www.slu.edu /colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/pedagogy/chron/romchr1.html (915 words)

	Ketcherside: Colony of Heaven
		A Roman colony was a "little Rome." It was set down in an alien world, where its citizens were strangers and foreigners to the land in which they lived.
		The colony of the Spirit which began with Lydia and her household was "a colony within a colony," and the last was the pagan culture in which the first was set down.
		The Roman colony consisted of mustered-out soldiers of the emperor.
	www.mun.ca /rels/restmov/texts/wcketcherside/Colony/coh_pre.html (1413 words)

	Places to Visit in Italy
		Reggio di Calabria The city lies at the foot of the Aspromonte, at the far end of the Italian peninsula on the right shore of the Strait of Messina.
		Luni The city had risen as a roman colony in 177 B.C. to assure definite possession of the ligurian coastal area, protection of the port, and control over the Ligurians.
		Vicenza This town is situated 40 metres above sea level at the foot of the Berici mountains, at the confluence of the Retrone and the Bacchiglione rivers on a flat fertile part of the upper Venetian plain.
	www.ciaodarling.com /italy/places.htm (4315 words)

	AllRefer.com - Zadar, Former Yugoslavia (Former Yugoslavian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop and has a branch of the Univ. of Zagreb.
		B.C. It passed to the Byzantine Empire in 553 and was settled by the South Slavs in the 7th cent.
		Zadar passed to Italy by the Treaty of Saint-Germain (1919), was occupied (1945) by Yugoslav forces at the end of World War II, and was formally ceded to Yugoslavia by the Italian peace treaty of 1947 as part of the constitutent republic of Croatia.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Z/Zadar.html (362 words)

	COLONIA CAMVLODVNENSIVM
		The north and west walls of the legionary fortress were later incorporated into the defenses surrounding the first Roman colony in the province.
		The Roman colony also appears in the Ninth Itinerary as Camoloduno, this time 6 miles from Ad Ansam (somewhere near Stratford St. Mary in Suffolk) and 9 miles from Canonium (Kelvedon, Essex).
		Iter IX is entitled "The Route from Venta Icinorum to Londinum", and details part of the same route as Iter V, filling in the Roman road-stations between the civitas capital of the Iceni tribe at Caistor St. Edmund in Norfolk, and the provincial capital at London.
	www.roman-britain.org /places/camulodunum.htm (2710 words)

	Pula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		With patrons such as Caesar's father-in-law and Cassius Longinus commissioned to oversee the creation of the colony it is clear that Pula was deemed a place of considerable importance.
		The colony paid dear for its allegiance to the losers and was demolished once Octavian had rid himself of Mark Antony in another civil war.
		With the eventual collapse of the western empire in the fifth century, Pula saw a period of rule by the Ostrogoths and was then annexed into the eastern Roman empire.
	www.roman-empire.net /tours/empire/pula.html (372 words)

	Bible Study Aids on ChristiansUnite.com
		And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.
		and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a [Roman] colony: and we were in this city tarrying certain days.
		And from there to Philippi, which is the most important town of Macedonia and a Roman colony: and we were there for some days.
	bible.christiansunite.com /search.cgi?version=all&passage=Ac+16:12 (194 words)

	Palmyra \| Thematic Essay \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although the Roman province of Syria was created in 64 B.C., the inhabitants of Tadmor, primarily Aramaeans and Arabs, remained semi-independent for over half a century.
		About 129 A.D., during the reign of Hadrian, Palmyra rose to the rank of a free city, and in 212 A.D. to that of a Roman colony.
		When Odaenathus was murdered in 267 A.D., his Arab queen, Zenobia, declared herself Augusta (empress) and ruled in the name of her son, Vaballathus.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/palm/hd_palm.htm (505 words)

	Corinth at the Time of Paul's Arrival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 44 B.C.E. a decree of Julius Caesar had re-founded Corinth as a Roman colony.
		DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453).
		Highlights from papers by Richard A. Horsley, research professor in the classics and religion department at the University of Massachusetts, and Susan E. Alcock, associate professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan, delivered at a symposium in 1999 at the University of Pennsylvania.
	gbgm-umc.org /umw/corinthians/city.stm (1525 words)

	Valencia (city, Spain) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Valencia (city, Spain)
		It was under Moorish rule from the 8th to the 13th centuries, except during 1094–99, when it was ruled by El Cid.
		During the Spanish civil war, Valencia was the seat of the Republican government in 1936–37.
		There is a Gothic and baroque cathedral (13th–15th centuries), called La Seo; the Torres de Serranos, 14th-century fortified towers built on Roman foundations; La Lonja, the Gothic silk exchange; and a university founded in 1501.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Valencia+(city,+Spain) (252 words)

	Italy Vacations - Hotels Italy - Italy Hotels
		Visiting the one time roman colony of Lucce can provide entertainment for everyone.
		The town center is enclosed in a brick wall from the sixteenth century that has a path along the top of the wall.
		Rome is also known for it's stylish clothing and residents, so dress appropriately but be sure to bring comfortable shoes or pick up a pair in one of the many high quality shoe shops found in Rome.
	www.italyhotelfinders.com (584 words)

	History of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem - Nasrani/Nestorian Church of the East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On the ruins of Jerusalem a new Roman city was built, called Ælia Capitolina (Ælia was Hadrian's family nomen), and a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus was built on Mount Moria.
		In 135 CE Caesarea and Antioch colonized the New Roman City of Alea Capitolina built atop the ruins of Jewish Jerusalem.
		As Christianity spread, and the persecutions of Jews and Jewish Christians by Roman authorities in their homeland increased, causing the dispersion of Nasrani Believers from Jerusalem, the import of the Church and its impact on the ongoing life in Jerusalem began to diminish in the Holy Land.
	www.nasrani-patriarchate.org /eng/history (3917 words)

	Trier, Germany
		The Roman colony of Augusta Treverorum (Trier) was founded under Augustus in 16 BC.
		Trier became a favored residence of several Roman emperors and eventually became known as "the second Rome." Trier was an imperial capital of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman Emperor, and the church he built here in the 4th century AD (Trier Cathedral) is Germany's oldest.
		According to Frommer's Germany, this Roman museum in Trier is "one of the outstanding museums of Roman antiquities north of the Alps." It houses tombs, mosaics and more.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /germany/trier.htm (707 words)

	Pictures of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Harbor front of La Rochelle, an important French fishing port at the Atlantic coast.
		Founded in 43 BC as a Roman colony, called Lugdunum, and later, capital of the Gauls, Lyon is now the capital of Rhône département of France.
		The rocky islet is a famous sanctuary, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 1979.
	www.pictures-europe.com /pictures-france.htm (1468 words)

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