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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 ...
A Roman colonia (pl.: coloniae) was originally a settlement of Roman citizens, establishing a Roman outpost in federated or conquered territory, for the purpose of securing it. Eventually, however, the term came to denote the highest status of a Roman city. It is also the origin of the modern term "colony".
File:Roman_Empire_map.gif licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated, GFDL 2006-11-27T04:01:27Z Roke 800x760 (93404 Bytes) incorporated prev addition of claimed successor states to the byzantine empire with a much smaller filesize; 2006-11-12T06:12:07Z 00340 800x760 (1236385 Bytes) 2006-06-06T10:30:23Z Roke 800x760 (338571 Bytes) map of the Roman Empire
A map of the Holy Roman Empire within Europe ca. 1789: Image title: A map of the Holy Roman Empire within Europe, circa 1789.
English: Map of the Roman Empire around the year of the consulship of Aurelianus and Bassus (271 AD), with the break away Gallic Empire in the West and the Palmyrene Empire in the East. Date 26 February 2009, 04:12 (UTC)
The rise of provincial men to the senatorial and equestrian orders is an aspect of social mobility in the early Empire. Roman aristocracy was based on competition, and unlike later European nobility, a Roman family could not maintain its position merely through hereditary succession or having title to lands. [166]
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of the Roman Empire. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Map of the Roman Empire during the reign of emperor Hadrian, 125 AD. The borders of the Roman Empire, which fluctuated throughout the empire's history, were realised as a combination of military roads and linked forts, natural frontiers (most notably the Rhine and Danube rivers) and man-made fortifications which separated the lands of the empire from the countries beyond.