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Roman Britain. Map from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain. [1]This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Brit
Coin of Pescennius Niger, a Roman usurper who claimed imperial power AD 193–194. Legend: IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVST AVG. While the imperial government of the Roman Empire was rarely called into question during its five centuries in the west and fifteen centuries in the east, individual emperors often faced unending challenges in the form of usurpation and perpetual civil wars. [30]
Currently in Spain, people bear a single or composite given name (nombre in Spanish) and two surnames (apellidos in Spanish).. A composite given name is composed of two (or more) single names; for example, Juan Pablo is considered not to be a first and a second forename, but a single composite forename.
Romanos derived his epithet, now usually treated as a family name, from his birthplace of Lakape (later Laqabin) between Melitene and Samosata. [2] It is found mostly as Lakapenos in the sources, although English-language scholarship in particular prefers the form Lekapenos, in large part due to Sir Steven Runciman's 1928 study on the emperor. [3]
Due to Byzantine cultural influence the name Roman (the Slavic variant of Romanos/Romanus) is widely used amongst Eastern and Western Slavs. The name day for Roman varies between countries. Román in Spanish is a popular given name in Spanish-speaking countries, especially in Latin-America. Variations of the name include: French: Romain; German ...
View published in the Descripción histórica del Gran Priorato de San Juan Bautista de Jerusalén en los reinos de Castilla y León (1769) Railways arrived to Alcázar de San Juan in 1854, as part of the Aranjuez – Almansa line, and, in 1861, another line was opened (Alcázar– Manzanares – Daimiel – Almagro – Ciudad Real ).
Romanos the Melodist (Greek: Ῥωμανὸς ὁ Μελωδός; late 5th-century – after 555) was a Byzantine hymnographer and composer, [1] who is a central early figure in the history of Byzantine music.
Romanos II was a son of the Emperor Constantine VII and Helena Lekapene, the daughter of Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos and his wife Theodora. [1] The Theophanes Continuatus states that he was 21 years old at the time of his accession in 959, meaning that he was born in 938. [2]