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	bmcr-9410-evans-roman.txt
		Even more fascinating is his detailed discussion of Trajan's bridge across the Danube, designed by Apollodorus of Damascus and depicted on well known reliefs of Trajan's column; O'Connor argues that Apollodorus used twenty-one segmented timber arches to span the river and create longest bridge ever built by the Romans.
		O'Connor's presentation of individual bridges is based in large part on that of Gazzola, but he has obviously visited and studied a good many of the monuments he describes, and several times he is able to correct figures and statistics given in Gazzola's study (pp.
		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.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-9410-evans-roman.txt (1165 words)

	Ostia - Introduction
		The overwhelming majority of the buildings that have been excavated was built in the first half of the second century, during the reign of Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.
		When the work on Trajan's harbour was finished, the builders turned their attention to Ostia and started rebuilding the city, supervised by Hadrian (how they were able to take over the properties of the local aristocracy remains a mystery).
		In the second half of the second century and in the Severan period building activity was restricted to repairs and modifications.
	www.ostia-antica.org /intro.htm (1165 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Trajan
		Elsewhere in the empire the great bridge at Alcantara in Spain, spanning the Tagus River, still in use, [[25]] testifies to the significant attention the emperor gave to the improvement of communication throughout his entire domain.
		He was also to build a great bridge across the Danube, with 60 stone piers (traces of this bridge still survive).
		Trajan was fortunate to have Apollodorus of Damascus in his service, who built a roadway through the Iron Gates by cantilevering it from the sheer face of the rock so that the army seemingly marched on water.
	www.roman-emperors.org /trajan.htm (1165 words)

	Chaves, Portugal
		The Roman bridge at chaves was build in the first centuries AD by Trajan.
		This is a close up of the milestone marker located in the middle of the bridge on the southern side.
		However, Chaves is well favored since it was built on the banks of the Tâmego river, in the center of a sunken basin which is particularly fertile.
	abc.eznettools.net /portomission/Album/Cities_branches/Chaves/ctyChaves.html (461 words)

	Roman bridge in Chaves -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Two of the columns of the original bridge, built by the Emperor (Roman emperor and adoptive son of Nerva; extended the empire to the east and conducted an extensive program of building (53-117)) Trajan, still stand.
		Although the bridge spanning the (additional info and facts about Minho) Minho in (additional info and facts about Ourense) Ourense is longer and higher, this example of (An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire) Roman architecture is even today a masterpiece of construction.
		The bridge was built between the end of the first century and the beginning of the second century CE.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/roman_bridge_in_chaves.htm (797 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Battle Descriptions
		Battle of Sarmizegetusa (Sarmizegetuza), A.D. During Trajan's reign one of the most important Roman successes was the victory over the Dacians.The first important confrontation between the Romans and the Dacians took place in the year 87 and was initiated by Domitian.
		The Severan cavalry appeared under the command of Laetus, and Albinus' army was routed.
		The Emperor Pescennius Niger and his army met the Severan troops near Issus, at an unknown date in 194.
	www.roman-emperors.org /assobd.htm (797 words)

	HERCULES S P Q R:
		Trajan promoted large-scale renovation, building of roads, harbors, trade routes, including the bridge which went across the Tagus River in Alcantara, Spain.
		The Severans' lineage is linked with their great ancestor and god, the African Hercules called Melkhart.
		This can be understood as we explain the family ties of Caracalla to the House of the Severans.
	pages.prodigy.net /saraswati/webdoc2.htm (797 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Tacitus
		On account of the legends inscribed on many structures, he was accustomed to call Trajan "Wall Plant." He built a bridge over the Danube.
		When, near some bridge, which is called "Aureolus" from his name, that had been seized and destroyed, he beseiged Mediolanum, he was killed by his men in imitation of this same "Aureolus." 3.
		But Aemilianus, in his fourth month, was defeated near Spoletium or a bridge which is said to have taken its name from his destruction of the Sanguinarii, between Oriculum and Narnia, positioned in the middle of the area between Spoletium and the city Rome.
	www.roman-emperors.org /epitome.htm (797 words)

	Chaves real estate real estates Chaves Chaves Portugal
		Nearby: The 16-arch Roman bridge across the Tâmega River was completed around 100 AD, at the time of the Emperor Trajan.
		The spa town of Vidago 17 km south-west of Chaves is well-known for its therapeutic water.
		Close to the village of Soutelo, 4 km north-west of Chaves, is a huge stone known as Outeiro Machado.
	www.reesin.com /real_estate_chaves_portugal.html (377 words)

	Chaves, Portugal
		With a substantial stone bridge over the Rio Tâmega built in the reign of Trajan (98-117), it became an important staging point on the road between Asturica Augusta (Astorga) and Bracara Augusta (Braga).
		The old-world little town of Chaves, the Roman Aquae Flaviae, lies on a plateau in northern Portugal near the Spanish frontier, in an area watered by the Rio Tâmega which has been intensively cultivated since ancient times.
		As far back as the Romans there has been recourse to the town's hot springs (73°C/163°F) for the treatment of rheumatism and internal ailments, and the modern thermal baths below the castle are well used today.
	www.planetware.com /portugal/vila-real/chaves-p-vr-chave.htm (169 words)

	Portugal > Travel > Transmontana > Chaves
		The fine sixteen-arched Roman bridge (four arches are hidden from view), spanning the River Tâmega is from the period of the Roman development of the town by Emperor Trajan.
		The Romans named Chaves as “Aquae Flaviae” around 78 AD after their discovery of thermal springs and nearby gold deposits.
		At the small village of Soutelo that lies close to the west of Chaves is a strange 50 meter long boulder covered in strange hieroglyphs that may be from Celtic times.
	www.portugal-info.net /transmontana/chaves.htm (583 words)

	artserve.html
		205 A.D. Roman Trajan's Column: detail - bottom register of frieze on W. side (River god Danuvius watching legionaries crossing a pontoon bridge) - 113 A.D. marble h.
		Roman Empire Portrait bust of a Lady of the Severan Period - ca.
		Roman Empire Portrait bust of the Emperor Commodus - ca.
	vandyck.anu.edu.au /introduction/rome/artserve.html (583 words)

	Roman Concrete Resources by David Moore
		This book tells of the large steel trusses (Burr type) used to span 328 feet at the Lakehurst blimp hanger; they are similar to the design used in the wooden bridges the Romans used to cross the Danube River (shown in stone on Trajan’s Column).
		He tries to construct his own wooden bridge across a river of similar width within the same time frame and using the same Techniques that the Romans had at their disposal.
		Modern-day engineer Chris Wise, who had a major role in the construction of the Millennium Bridge across the River Thames, takes Caesar's challenge.
	www.romanconcrete.com /resources.htm (583 words)

	Portugal - images - imagens - photos Travel-Images.com - 44 - Vila Real district: Chaves, Murça, Padrões, São Vicente de Chã, Venda Nova, Mateus, Peso da Régua, Pisões
		Chaves: Trajan's bridge - roman bridge on the Tâmega river
		Portugal- images - imagens - photos Travel-Images.com - 44 - Vila Real district: Chaves, Murça, Padrões, São Vicente de Chã, Venda Nova, Mateus, Peso da Régua, Pisões
	geo.ya.com /travelimages/portugal44.html (117 words)

	Images of Arch of Constantine, Rome
		Above the roundel is a frieze from a monument to Trajan depicting a battle scene.
		This huge triumphal arch (21 meters high), with three barrel-vaulted passageways, was erected to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312.
		On the east end the medallion contains a depiction of the god Sol driving the sun chariot.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/italy/rome/archconstantine/arch.html (475 words)

	Arch Of Constantine Colosseum in Rome, Italy Byzantium
		Constantine had liberated the city and the state from the tyrant Maxentius by his victory in the battle of Milvian Bridge.
		The arch is decorated with sculptures taken from earlier monuments erected by Trajan, Hadrian and others, and only the small reliefs which run around the monument actually depict events from the life of Constantine.
		In A.D. 312 the People and Senate of Rome, in honor of the Emperor, erected the Arch of Constantine in the great Square of the Colosseum in Rome.
	www.padfield.com /2002/constantine.html (173 words)

	Arch of Constantine
		Erected in honor of Emperor Constantine, after battle to defeat Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge in 315 AD.
		Constructed of spolia stripped from earlier imperial monuments dedicated to Trajan (112) and Hadrian (128) Inscription: "Constantine overcame his enemies by divine inspiration"
		Roundels from Hadrianic monument, with Constantinian relief of Battle of Milvian Bridge below
	harpy.uccs.edu /roman/html/archconslides.html (159 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 94.10.23
		Even more fascinating is his detailed discussion of Trajan's bridge across the Danube, designed by Apollodorus of Damascus and depicted on well known reliefs of Trajan's column; O'Connor argues that Apollodorus used twenty-one segmented timber arches to span the river and create longest bridge ever built by the Romans.
		O'Connor's presentation of individual bridges is based in large part on that of Gazzola, but he has obviously visited and studied a good many of the monuments he describes, and several times he is able to correct figures and statistics given in Gazzola's study (pp.
		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.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1994/94.10.23.html (159 words)

	/ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE-BALKANS: Romans Rise from the Waters
		It confirmed the existence of the Trajan Bridge, which once had a 1070-metre span across the river between what are today the towns of Kladovo and the Romanian port Turnu Severin some 170 km east of Belgrade.
		The Roman emperor Trajan is said to have started to build the bridge in the year 103AD as a part of his forays into the kingdom of Dacians, in today's Romania.
		BELGRADE, Nov 1 (IPS) - After 15 years of pause, archaeological excavations have been resumed in Serbia, an area rich with remains of ancient Roman sites along the Danube and Sava rivers.
	ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=20822 (159 words)

	AEDIS - Encyclopedia Britannica - AEDIS - JCSM's Study Center
		The forum of Trajan with its adjacent buildings was the last and, at least in size, the most magnificent of all ; it was in progress from Forum of 1 13 to 117, at least.
		Aurei of Trajan show this arch and other parts of his forum.' The opposite side was occupied by the Basilica Ulpia (Jordan, F. 25, 26), part of which, with the column of Trajan, is now visible; none of the columns, which are of grey granite, are in situ, and the whole restoration is misleading.
		towards the Forum, making the temple of Castor into a vestibule, and to have connected it with the Capitol by a bridge whose piers were found by the temple of Augustus and thS Basilica Julia; but this was destroyed after his death.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/ADA_AIZ/AEDIS.html (159 words)

	Antioch
		Across the Orontes is a bridge of nine arches, with two towers having gates plated with iron, whence the bridge is known as the iron bridge.
		The city being restored partly by the aid of Trajan and Hadrian, was spared any serious calamity of this kind till 526 A.D. when it was entirely destroyed, the loss of life, all the greater because of an assembly of Christian then met, being reckoned at 250,000 persons.
		As in the case of many other Greek cities in Asia, once famous for their beauty, the site of Antioch is now studded with squalid hovels of mud and straw.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/ANT/antioch.html (2253 words)

	ALCANTARA - LoveToKnow Article on ALCANTARA
		A small Roman temple, dedicated to Trajan and other deified emperors, stood on the left bank, adjoining the bridge.
		Alcantara (in Arab, "the bridge") owes its name to the magnificent Roman bridge which spans the Tagus on the north-west.
		ALCANTARA, a town of western Spain, in the province of Caceres, situated on a rocky height on the left bank of the river Tagus, 7 m.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AL/ALCANTARA.htm (466 words)

	TRIUMPHAL ARCH - Online Information article about TRIUMPHAL ARCH
		Commodus (A.D. 187) and of Septimius Severus (A.D. In Spain there are two monumental arches erected by Trajan at Alcantara, in the centre of the bridge built by him (A.D. 108), and the arch of See also:
		TRAJAN [MARCUS ULPIUS TRAJANUS] (A. Trajan, recording the Dacian victories: The triumphal arch (fig.
		Of memorial arches the earliest are the examples of Rimini (fig.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TOO_TUM/TRIUMPHAL_ARCH.html (1293 words)

	Antioch
		Across the Orontes is a bridge of nine arches, with two towers having gates plated with iron, whence the bridge is known as the iron bridge.
		The rivers changed their courses, Mount Casius shook, and it was only by taking shelter for several days in the circus that Trajan himself escaped danger from the falling buildings.
		On the coins of Antioch struck by Tigranes, and freuqnetly on those of later times, the city is personified as a female figure seated on a high rock or hill, from under which issues the Orontes in the form of a youth in the attitude of swimming.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/ANT/antioch.html (2253 words)

	Roman Concrete Resources by David Moore
		This book tells of the large steel trusses (Burr type) used to span 328 feet at the Lakehurst blimp hanger; they are similar to the design used in the wooden bridges the Romans used to cross the Danube River (shown in stone on Trajan’s Column).
		In 55 B.C., Julius Caesar claimed that his army built a wooden bridge spanning the Rhine River in only ten days.
		Modern-day engineer Chris Wise, who had a major role in the construction of the Millennium Bridge across the River Thames, takes Caesar's challenge.
	www.romanconcrete.com /resources.htm (2253 words)

	Athena Review: Recent Finds in Archaeology: Discovery of Mural in Ancient Rome
		Adjoining the town wall in the painting is a large bridge or aqueduct spanning a river.
		Soon after Nero’s death, the palace and grounds, encompassing one square mile, were built over by the Colosseum, Baths of Titus, Baths of Trajan, and Temple of Venus and Rome.
		Early in 1998, Italian archaeologist Elisabeta Carnabuci, working amid the ruins of Trajan’s Baths, discovered a large fresco of an unknown walled city.
	www.athenapub.com /romural1.htm (413 words)

	FORUM APPII - Online Information article about FORUM APPII
		bridge near Tripontium was similarly repaired, and that at Forum Appii, though it bears no inscription, is of the same See also:
		TRAJAN [MARCUS ULPIUS TRAJANUS] (A. Trajan the road was repaired; one inscription records expressly the paving with silex (replacing the former gravelling) of the See also:
		section from Tripontium, 4 M. N.W., to Forum Appii; the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FLA_FRA/FORUM_APPII.html (342 words)

	Roman Concrete Resources by David Moore
		This book tells of the large steel trusses (Burr type) used to span 328 feet at the Lakehurst blimp hanger; they are similar to the design used in the wooden bridges the Romans used to cross the Danube River (shown in stone on Trajan’s Column).
		In 55 B.C., Julius Caesar claimed that his army built a wooden bridge spanning the Rhine River in only ten days.
		Modern-day engineer Chris Wise, who had a major role in the construction of the Millennium Bridge across the River Thames, takes Caesar's challenge.
	www.romanconcrete.com /resources.htm (342 words)

	The Story of Trajan
		Trajan was also the man who planned exactly what the bridge over the Danube River.
		Trajan was outraged that Decebalus had lied to him, so he took matters into his own hands.
		But I was there with him against the King of Dacia, and in Asia, and when he built the bridge.
	students.ou.edu /W/Richard.D.Wagner-1/story5.html (891 words)

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