The Classis Ravennas ("Fleet of Ravenna"), later awarded the honorifics praetoria and Pia Vindex, was the second most senior fleet of the imperial Roman...
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churches Classis (biology), or class, a taxonomic rank or unit in biology Classis (port), or Classe, ancient port of Ravenna, Italy Roman classis, fleet...
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Roman navy (redirect from Praefectus classis)
Centumcellae and other harbors. The Classis Ravennas, established in 27 BC and based at Ravenna. Later Classis praetoria Ravennatis Pia Vindex. The various...
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its support during the civil war of 69 suggests, the classis Misenensis, together with the Classis Ravennatis, formed the naval counterpart of the Praetorian...
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of Ravenna. Initially settled by the Umbri people, Ravenna came under Roman Republic control in 89 BC. Octavian built the military harbor of Classis at...
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plotting with Sextus Lucilius Bassus, commander of the Classis Ravennas, the Roman fleet at Ravenna, to switch their support to Vespasian. His troops refused...
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Before his appointment to Iudaea, Bassus was prefect of the Classis Ravennas and the Classis Misenensis and betrayed Vitellius by siding with Vespasian...
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cisterns Roman navy Nemi ships Caligula's Giant Ship Classis Britannica Classis Flavia Moesica Classis Ravennas Wikimedia Commons has media related to Portus...
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commercial port for the imperial capital of Ravenna in the Roman Empire. Classe comes from the Latin word classis, meaning fleet. There was a small port and...
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Christ, led his flock as a good shepherd and honoured the Church of Classis near Ravenna by a glorious martyrdom." It is not certain what was his native place...
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Salonius Matidius Patruinus. Marcus Ulpius Marcellus, admiral of the Classis Ravennas around AD 119. Ulpius Marcellus, a jurist during the reigns of Antoninus...
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suggested that the Carpow fort was the place named as "Horrea Classis" or "Poreo Classis" in the Ravenna Cosmography. The Carpow fort was situated on a coastal...
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Misenensis – Senior fleet of the imperial Roman navy Classis Ravennas – Roman fleet based at Ravenna The Roman origin of the area is confirmed from the...
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today. Severus is depicted in Justinian's mosaics in Saint Apollinaire in Classis, and his name is recorded in early martyrologies. There is a Saint Severus...
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two-berth cruise terminal and expected to be completed Spring 2024. From classis, Latin "fleet". Van Wyen, Adrian O. (1969). Naval Aviation in World War...
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tribune in the Legio II Adiutrix, and later admiral of the Classis Misenensis and Classis Ravennas. He was also governor of Lusitania and Dacia. His wife's...
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praefectus Classis praefecti Ravennas, or commander of the Classis Ravennas the Roman fleet based at Ravenna, then promoted to praefectus Classis praefecti...
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deterring piracy. Rome maintained two large fleets, the Classis Praetoria Misenensis and Classis Praetoria Ravennatis based in the Mediterranean with smaller...
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led them into the south. In 579, he sacked Classis, the harbour of Ravenna. Between 584 and 588, Classis was retaken by Droctulf. His sons fought over...
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IX Liguria. Caius Caninius Germanus, veteran and centurion of the classis Ravennas died at the age of 90 in Calenzana, Corsica. Caninia Longa, a Jewish...
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First Julianus was prefect of the Classis Ravennas, followed by prefect of the more important fleet, the Classis Misenensis; Werner Eck and Hans Lieb...
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Smaragdus (redirect from Smaragdus, Exarch of Ravenna)
military achievement during his first reign was the recovery of Classis, the port of Ravenna, from the Lombards in 588. Smaragdus was also known for his violence...
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(singular: Classiarius; from Latin classis "fleet") referred to all military personnel (from the highest rank of praefectus classis to the simplest rank of miles...
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ruled conjointly with his brother Wachilap. Faroald II captured Classis, the port of Ravenna, according to Paul the Deacon's History of the Lombards: "In...
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name of the Emperor Hadrian, while ‘Classica’ is derived from the Latin classis ‘fleet’, suggesting that the soldiers were recruited from the fleet in...
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placed in charge of detachments of the praetorian fleets of Misenum and Ravenna and also of African and Moorish cavalry used for scouting duties in Pannonia...
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ISBN 978-2-9571557-8-1. Viereck, Hans D. L (1975). Die römische Flotte: Classis Romana [The Roman Fleet: Classis Romana] (in German). Herford, Germany: Koehler. ISBN 3-7822-0106-X...
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Raetia. After these came the signal appointment as praefectus of the Classis Ravennas, the second major fleet of the Roman military. Blassianus returned...
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and Pope. After Faroald, the Lombard duke of Spoleto, captured Classis, the port of Ravenna, Droctulf recaptured it for the Empire in 575–76. He was briefly...
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submission to Liutprand. The Lombard king also took Classis, the seaport of Ravenna, but could not take Ravenna itself. In 727, Liutprand entered Rome and seized...
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