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The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
Rome was founded by wanderers. According to the poet Virgil, Aeneas and his refugees from Troy were led by a ...
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Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The start of the Romans' eight-hundred-year relationship with the Jews of Judea antedates their conquest of that country in 63 ...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
In the first quarter of the sixteenth century, Rome, capital of the papal states and the seat of the papacy, ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(῾Πώμη). In the early Roman Empire of the 1st to 3rd C., Rome was the major city (urbs)—capital ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
As long as Rome remained part of the empire, the emperor was legally responsible for the city's public buildings, and ...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
‘The eternal city’, capital of modern Italy (embracing the Vatican City since the Lateran Treaty in 1929 between the pope ...
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A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
That Palestine was a Roman colony; that the Jews fought against Roman dominion (see BAR KOCHBA and JOSEPHUS); ...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
[It. Roma]. ...
Capital city of the Roman Empire, half-way down the Italian peninsula and c. 35 km from the mouth
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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
In the late eighteenth century, Rome, the capital of the Papal States, filled less than a quarter of the area ...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
[This entry includes three subentries, on the early history of Rome and the Roman Republic, on the Roman ...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
Capital city of Italy and the metropolis of the Roman Catholic Church, half-way down the Italian peninsula and c. 35 ...
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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
(Chaucer's adj. is Romayn; he calls the inhabitants Romayns) had been for most of the Middle Ages the principal city ...
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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
has been capital of Italy only since 1871, a decade after Unification [see also Risorgimento]. Before that ...
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A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.)
The capital of the Roman Empire, traditionally founded in 753
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
In the MA, Rome became the centre of the Roman Catholic church and the home of the popes. 1. Historical ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
In 330 the capital of the Empire was removed from Rome to Constantinople, and thereafter the city declined in importance. Medieval Rome was a small city within the ...
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The Oxford Companion to Western Art
Rome was the political and cultural centre of a vast empire from the mid-2nd century
Rome: patronage and collecting Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
Patronage, collecting, and the art market in Rome have been largely shaped by the significance assumed at different periods by ...
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World Encyclopedia
Capital of the Roman republic. According to tradition, Romulus and Remus founded Rome in 753
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World Encyclopedia
Capital of Italy, on the River Tiber,
