Archaeology

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Rijswijk (Gld.)

Rijswijk: place along the Rhine with many Roman military finds, perhaps a limes fort.The river finds near Rijswijk suggest military occupation from the Batavian revolt (70) until the beginning of the fourth century. Among the occupiers of the fort may…

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Rock Art

Rock Art of the Fezzan: prehistoric rock reliefs and paintings in the southwest of modern Libya. Wadi Imla, hunters on dromedaries One…

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Roman Byzantium

Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις) or Byzantium (Βυζάντιον): Greek city on the Bosphorus, capital of the Byzantine Empire, modern İstanbul. Septimius Severus Seen from Rome,…

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Roman Corinth

Corinth (Greek Κόρινθος): important Greek city-state, situated on the isthmus between the Peloponnese and the mainland.Roman Corinth Julius Caesar 46 BCE: Refounded by…

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Roman Dacia

Dacia: country north of the Lower Danube, more or less identical to modern Romania. It experienced influences from the Thracians, Scythians, Greeks, and Celts and became a powerful kingdom, added as a province to the Roman Empire (below), abandoned to…

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Roman Thrace

Thrace: Roman province in what is now Bulgaria.Roman Conquest 29/28 BCE: Moesian war of Crassus 11 CE: The Romans suppress a revolt of the Bessae 15 CE: Creation of the Moesian provinces along the Danube 26 CE: Poppaeus Sabinus suppresses a Thracian revolt c.30 CE: Novae…

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Masada

Roman-Jewish Wars: name of several military engagements between the Roman Republic (later: Empire) and various groups of Jews between 63 BCE and 136 CE.The Siege of Masada …

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Bar Kochba

Roman-Jewish Wars: name of several military engagements between the Roman Republic (later: Empire) and various groups of Jews between 63 BCE and 136 CE.Simon ben Kosiba …

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