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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 ...
Gods And Legions: A Novel of the Roman Empire (2002) by Michael Curtis Ford; The Sword of Attila: A Novel of the Last Years of Rome (2005) by Michael Curtis Ford; The Fall of Rome: A Novel of a World Lost (2007) by Michael Curtis Ford; Raptor (1993) by Gary Jennings is an historical novel set in the late 5th and early 6th centuries. It purports ...
Ancient Rome portal; These are historical novels set in ancient Rome and the Roman Empire (753 BC–AD 476). There are sub-categories for some of the lands under Roman control where many novels are set, such as Roman Britain.
Roman Italy is the period of ancient Italian history going from the founding and rise of Rome to the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire; the Latin name of the Italian peninsula in this period was Italia (continued to be used in the Italian language).
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 science fiction film and sequel to Jurassic Park, loosely based on Crichton's novel. The film, which was directed by Steven Spielberg , who also directed the first Jurassic film, was a commercial success, breaking many box-office records when released, but received mixed reviews.
It lists cities established and built by the ancient Romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. Many Roman colonies in antiquity rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation hubs and capitals of global empires.
During the 1930s, Italy strongly pursued a policy of naval rearmament; by 1940, the Regia Marina was the fourth-largest navy in the world. Mussolini and Adolf Hitler first met in June 1934, when Mussolini opposed German plans to annex Austria to ensure that Nazi Germany would not become hegemonic in Europe.
The sacking of 410 is seen as a major landmark in the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire. St. Jerome, living in Bethlehem at the time, wrote that "The City which had taken the whole world was itself taken." [52] These sackings of the city astonished all the Roman world. In any case, the damage caused by the sackings may have been ...