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urban tribe 6th century BC IV: COR Cornelia: older rural tribe 6th century BC XXI ESQ Esquilina urban tribe 6th century BC III: FAB Fabia: older rural tribe 6th century BC XXV FAL Falerna later rural tribe 318 BC: XIII GAL Galeria older rural tribe 6th century BC XXXIII HOR Horatia: older rural tribe 6th century BC IX LEM Lemonia older rural tribe
The change in the origins of the new governing elite that assumed control of the empire from the end of the third century can be seen in their names: seven of the eleven emperors between Gallienus and Diocletian (Claudius Gothicus, Quintillus, Probus, Carus, Carinus, Numerian and Maximian) bore the name "Marcus Aurelius" [27]
This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (May 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The list of early Germanic peoples is a catalog of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilizations from antiquity. This information is derived from ...
A dynasty may also be referred to as a "house", "family" or "clan", among others. Historians periodize the histories of many states and civilizations , such as the Roman Empire (27 BC – AD 1453), Imperial Iran (678 BC – AD 1979), Ancient Egypt (3100–30 BC), and Ancient and Imperial China (2070 BC – AD 1912), using a framework of ...
member of a wandering race (by themselves called Romany), of Indian origin, which first appeared in England about the beginning of the 16th c. The first usage of the word in English found by the OED was 1514, with several more usages in the same century, and both Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare used this word. [23]
Membership in a tribe was prima facie proof of Roman citizenship and also formed the basis on which the army was levied. [29] Toward the end of the Republic, the tribe became so important that it became an official part of a Roman's name, usually appearing, in the most formal documents and inscriptions, between a citizen's filiation and any ...
The Greeks are an Indo-European people living in Greece but also ruling the Byzantine Empire; the name probably derives from a single Greek tribe. The name derives in Germanic languages via Gothic, regularly showing initial k for g. [130] Widsith places the Greeks under the rule of Caesar (Old English: Casere), reflecting the Byzantine Empire ...
The word gens is feminine, and the name of a gens was also feminine. Marcus Valerius Corvus was a member of gens Valeria. Valerius was his nomen. His son's nomen would have been Valerius, and his daughter's Valeria. Male members of his gens were collectively called Valerii, and female members Valeriae.