Randwijk: place of a hypothetical fort in the Roman Rhine limes.Perhaps, there was a Roman auxiliary fort near modern Randwijk on the south bank of the river Rhine. The site was of some strategic importance, because from this place, a…
Rhine (Latin Rhenus): the largest river in northwestern Europe. As the frontier of the Roman empire and (with the Rhône) main transport corridor between the Mediterranean and the North Sea, it played an important role in shaping the history of…
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…
Royal road: according to the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus (fifth century BCE) the road that connected the capital of Lydia, Sardes, and the capitals of the Achaemenid Empire, Susa and Persepolis. From cuneiform texts, other such roads are known.
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Rubico: little river in northeastern Italy, once the border between the Roman province Cisalpine Gaul and Italy proper. Crossing the river with an army, as Julius Caesar did in 49 BCE, was identical to invading one's own country.
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