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Pompeii (/ p ɒ m ˈ p eɪ (i)/ ⓘ pom-PAY(-ee); Latin: [pɔmˈpei̯.iː]) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, the city was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Tabula Peutingeriana (section of a modern facsimile), top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast. Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula, [1] Peutinger tables [2] or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the ...
Map Macroregion Italian name Regions Major city Population January 2022 Area (km 2) Population density (km 2) MEPs; Number % km 2 % Centre Centro: Lazio Marche Tuscany Umbria: Rome: 11,740,836 19.91% 58,085 km 2 (22,427 sq mi) 19.23% 202 15: North-West Nord-Ovest: Aosta Valley Liguria Lombardy Piedmont: Milan: 15,848,100 26.87% 57,928 km 2 ...
Italy has served as a member of the World Heritage Committee five times, 1978–1985, 1987–1993, 1993–1999, 1999–2001, and 2021–2025. [3] Out of Italy's 60 heritage sites, 54 are cultural and 6 are natural. [3] Seven sites are transnational.
Pompeii, the ancient Roman city is set to expand. The Grande Pompei project, which will lay on free shuttle buses and shared tickets to other archaeological sites and villas in the vicinity.
Map of Pompeii in Ancient Campania. William R. Shepherd (1911). Campania extended from the slopes of Mount Massico (to the north) up to the Phlegraean Fields and the Vesuvian area to the south.
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In 312 BC, Capua was connected with Rome by the construction of the Via Appia, the most important of the military highways of Italy. The gate by which it left the Servian walls of Rome bore the name Porta Capena ; perhaps the only case in which a gate in this line of fortifications bears the name of the place to which it led.