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This is a list of topics related to ancient Rome that aims to include aspects of both the ancient Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
  • For an overview of the subject, see Ancient Rome.
  • For other articles not listed below, see and its subcategories.
  • An index of important figures in ancient Rome can be found in List of ancient Romans.
The topics in this list cover the culture, society and history of the ancient Roman Republic and the classical unitary Roman Empire, including what is known as the Roman era.

This list thus covers the period from (approximately) the 5th century BC to the 6th century AD, and clumps together elements ranging from the affairs of a small city state on the banks of the river Tiber to the sociology of an empire sprawling from Cumbria and Morocco to the Euphrates.

Ancient city of Rome

For the modern city see Rome

Byzantine Empire

Culture

Main directory: Roman culture (see society topics, issues of daily life, architecture and entertainment)

Economy and transportation

History

Regional History

Language

Lists

Military

Main directory: Military of ancient Rome

Places

Politics

Religion

Miscellaneous

Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a republican form of government. The republican period began with the overthrow of the Monarchy c.
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The Roman Empire is the name given to both the imperial domain developed by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. This article however is about the latter.
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Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea.
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This an alphabetical List of ancient Romans. These include citizens of ancient Rome remembered in history for some reason.

Note that some persons may be listed multiple times, once for each part of the name.
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Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate,") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significant importance.
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society is a grouping of individuals which is characterized by common interests and may have distinctive culture and institutions. Members of a society may be from different ethnic groups.
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History is the study of the past, focused on human activity and leading up to the present day.[1] More precisely, history is the continuous, systematic narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race [1]
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Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a republican form of government. The republican period began with the overthrow of the Monarchy c.
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The Roman Empire is the name given to both the imperial domain developed by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. This article however is about the latter.
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The Roman Era is a period in Western history, when ancient Rome was the centre of power of the world around the Mediterranean Sea, where Latin was the lingua franca.

Depending on sources, the Roman era starts somewhere in the 2nd or 1st century BC (e.g.
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The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC.

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This century sees the beginning of a period of philosophical brilliance among advanced civilizations, particularly the Greeks which would continue all the way through the
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The 6th century is the period from 501 to 600 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era. This century is widely considered to mark the end of Classical Antiquity and the beginning of the Dark Ages.
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A city-state is a region controlled exclusively by a city, usually having sovereignty. Historically, city-states have often been part of larger cultural areas, as in the city-states of ancient Greece (such as Athens, Sparta and Corinth), the Phoenician cities of Canaan (such as
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The Tiber (Italian Tevere, Latin Tiberis) is the third-longest river in Italy, rising in the Apennine mountains of Tuscany and flowing 406 kilometres through Umbria and Lazio to the Tyrrhenian Sea. It drains a basin estimated at 18,000 km².
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Sociology (from Latin: socitus, "companion"; and the suffix -ology, "the study of", from Greek λόγος, lógos, "knowledge") is the systematic and scientific study of society and societal behavior.
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empire (from the Latin "imperium", denoting military command within the ancient Roman government). Generally, they may define an empire as a state that extends dominion over populations distinct culturally and ethnically from the culture/ethnicity at the center of power.
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    Cumbria (IPA: /ˈkʌmbriə/), is a shire county in the extreme North West of England. Cumbria came into existence as a county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972.
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    Motto
    "Allāh, al Waţan, al Malik"   (transliteration)
    "God, Nation, King"
    Anthem
    Hymne Chérifien
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    Origin Eastern Turkey
    Mouth Shatt al Arab
    Basin countries Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran
    Length 2,800 km
    Source elevation 4,500 m

    Avg.
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    Comune di Roma

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    Nickname: "The Eternal City"
    Motto: "Senatus Populusque Romanus" (SPQR)   (Latin)
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    Baths of Caracalla were Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between 212 and 216 AD, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. The extensive ruins of the baths have become a popular tourist attraction.
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    Catacombs of Rome are ancient Jewish and Christian underground burial places near Rome, Italy.

    Etruscans used to bury their dead in underground chambers. Christians revived the practice because they did not want to cremate their dead due to their belief in bodily
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    Circus Maximus (Latin for greatest circus, in Italian Circo Massimo) is an ancient hippodrome and mass entertainment venue located in Rome.

    Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, the location was first utilized for public games and
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    Colosseum or Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman
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    Curia Hostilia (Latin, "Hostilian Court") was the favourite meeting place of the Roman Senate in the Forum Romanum at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, near the well of the Comitia.
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    The Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's earliest sewage systems. Constructed in ancient Rome in order to drain local marshes and remove the waste of one of the world's most populous cities, it carried an effluent to the River
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    Trajan's Column is a monument in Rome raised in honour of the Roman emperor Trajan and constructed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Roman Senate. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum.
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    The remains of at least 220 amphitheatres have been located in widely scattered areas of the Roman Empire. These are fully circular, and are not to be confused with the more common "ordinary" theatres, which are semicircular structures.
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    List of ancient Roman triumphal arches

    (By modern country)

    France

    • Carpentras
    • Orange
    • Reims: Porte de Mars
    • Saint Rémy de Provence: Roman site of Glanum
    • Saintes: Arch of Germanicus

    Germany

    • Porta Nigra, Trier


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    History of the city of Rome spans 2,800 years of the existence of a city that grew from a small Italian village in the 9th century BC into the center of a vast civilization that dominated the Mediterranean region for centuries, but was eventually overrun by Germanic tribes, marking
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