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Ostia may have been Rome's first colonia.According to legend, Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome, [4] was the first to destroy Ficana, an ancient town that was only 17 km (11 mi) from Rome and had a small harbour on the Tiber, and then proceeded with establishing the new colony 10 km (6 mi) further west and closer to the sea coast.
The name of Ostia is derived from the Latin ostia, in turn plural of the neuter ostium i.e. 'mouth', or alternatively 'door, entrance'. The current placename is a reference to the original settlement in the eighth century BC at the mouth of the river Tiber and precisely called Ostia Tiberina.
Articles relating to the city of Ostia Antica. It was an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber. It is located near modern Ostia, 25 km (16 mi)) southwest of Rome. Due to silting and the invasion of sand, the site now lies 3 km (2 mi) from the sea.
A Mithraeum found in the ruins of Ostia Antica, Italy Mithraeum in Jajce renowned as one of the best preserved in-situ in Europe How a modern history theme park imagines a Mithraeum: Museum Orientalis in the Netherlands Finds from a Mithraeum in Stockstadt, Germany A Mithraeum found in the German city of Saarbrücken
You can understand why people would have thought the world was ending." #13 Lepa Radić (1925 - 1943) was a Bosnian Serb who was executed at the age of 17 for shooting at Nazis during World War 2.
The Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16) were a series of conflicts between the Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire.Tensions between the Germanic tribes and the Romans began as early as 17/16 BC with the Clades Lolliana, where the 5th Legion under Marcus Lollius was defeated by the tribes Sicambri, Usipetes, and Tencteri.
The first two films were a huge hit, grossing $266 million. They were followed by a largely forgotten, straight-to-DVD spin-off, "Legally Blondes," and a successful stage musical of the original film.
The Museo Archeologico Ostiense (or Archaeological Museum of Ostia) is an archaeological museum dedicated to the ancient Roman city of Ostia in Rome, Italy. The museum was built by Pope Pius IX, who in 1865 had to readapt a fifteenth-century building used as a store to create a city museum. Contained in the museum are numerous archaeological ...