History

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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 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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Roman Wars

Carthage (Phoenician Kart hadašt, "new city"): important ancient city, close to modern Tunis.First Punic War Map of the Carthaginian Empire (c.220…

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Annexation

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.Annexation of Judaea When king Herod the Great died in 4 BCE, the Roman emperor Augustus divided his kingdom…

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Jewish War (66-70)

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.Causes of the War of 66-70 …

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Chronology 66-74

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.Chronology of the Jewish War, 66-70 The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus offers a consistent chronology of the Jewish War…

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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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