Ravenna (/rəˈvɛnə/ rə-VEN-ə; Italian: [raˈvenna], also local pronunciation: [raˈvɛn(n)a] ; Romagnol: Ravèna, Ravêna) is the capital city of the Province...
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to be used to refer to the territory administered by the Exarchate of Ravenna in contrast to other parts of Northern Italy under Lombard rule, named...
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Jordanes (redirect from Iordanis Romana et Getica)
some even say bishop of Ravenna, but the name Jordanes is not known in the lists of bishops of Ravenna. Jordanes wrote Romana, about the history of Rome...
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Roman Italy (redirect from Italia romana)
Italy by Diocletian in 292 AD, and Italian cities such as Mediolanum and Ravenna continued to serve as de facto capitals for the West. Although, in late...
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The Ravenna Cosmography (Latin: Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, lit. "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names covering the...
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won). Afterwards, the captives were spared, but were sent to exile in Ravenna, where Thumelicus was raised. Tacitus promised to recount his fate "at...
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termale di Bagnoli S. Gregorio a Capo d’Orlando, in AttiIV Colloquio AISCOM [Palermo 1996], Ravenna 1997, p. 259-272) Portals: Architecture History Italy...
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Regisole (category Buildings and structures in Ravenna)
influential during the Italian Renaissance. It was originally erected at Ravenna, in what is now Italy, but was moved to Pavia in the Middle Ages, where...
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Late Antique and medieval mosaics in Italy (redirect from Ravenna mosaics)
villas continue into the Late Antique period, including those at the Villa Romana del Casale at Piazza Armerina and the Gladiator Mosaic, both of about the...
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Roman Republic (redirect from Res Pvblica Romana)
The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana [ˈreːs ˈpuːblɪka roːˈmaːna]) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of...
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captured almost the entire peninsula, forcing Odoacer to take refuge in Ravenna. The city surrendered on 5 March 493. Theodoric invited Odoacer to a banquet...
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891 at Pavia and joint emperor alongside his father on 30 April 892 at Ravenna by a reluctant Pope Formosus. He and his father signed a pact with the...
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independence even had a Dominican president whose ancestors came from Ravenna—Francisco Gregorio Billini. Indeed, Billini was president between 1884...
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The Western Empire collapsed in 476, and the Western imperial court in Ravenna disappeared by AD 554, at the end of Justinian's Gothic War. Though there...
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Gothic War (535–554) (section Capture of Ravenna)
phases: From 535 to 540: ending with the fall of the Ostrogothic capital Ravenna and the apparent reconquest of Italy by the Byzantines. From 540/541 to...
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who is described as a leader of the Saxon invaders of Britain in the Ravenna Cosmography. This says that "in oceano vero occidentale est insula quae...
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film adaptation in mid-2022. Filming took place in Rome, Pescara, and Ravenna from February to June 2023. Songs featured in the film include "Budapest"...
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Thumelicus, whom she bore while in captivity, was trained as a gladiator in Ravenna and is considered to have died in a gladiator fight before reaching the...
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Villa of Geraci (redirect from Villa Romana di contrada Geraci)
Colloquio AISCOM [Palermo 1996], Ravenna 1997, p. 273-280 "Enna un tesoro ancora tutto da scoprire: la Villa Romana di contrada Geraci | Enna Press tutte...
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actor and writer Romanus (bishop of Rochester) Romanus (exarch), Exarch of Ravenna The hypothetical Petrus Romanus, a figure mentioned in the Prophecy of...
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Vincenzo Gallina (1795, Ravenna - 1842, Aleppo), was an Italian Carbonari, a liberal lawyer or merchant. After the Carbonari revolution in 1821 he was...
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Victoria, Anatolia, and Audax (redirect from Santa Vittoria (romana))
saints appear in the mosaics of Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, at Ravenna, between Saints Paulina and Christina. A Passio SS. Anatoliae et Audacis...
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Religion in ancient Rome (redirect from Religio Romana)
assimilation which made the Roman Empire possible"; entry on "Interpretatio romana" in Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2006), p. 974....
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their Italian territories via a governor called an exarch, stationed in Ravenna. Pope Gregory II's defiance of the Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian...
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dated to between 5 February 914, when he is mentioned in a document of Ravenna, and late March or early April, when his successor, John X, was elected...
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of the number and type of ships which were detachments of the fleets of Ravenna and of Misenum. In 251 Pope Cornelius was imprisoned in Centumcellae during...
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Roman Empire (section Pax Romana)
saw a period of unprecedented stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana (lit. 'Roman Peace'). Rome reached its greatest territorial extent under...
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assistance. Joannes lacked a strong army and fortified himself in his capital, Ravenna, where he was killed in the summer of 425. Shortly afterwards, Aetius returned...
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canon law of the Catholic Church: it was said that ecclesia vivit lege romana – the church lives by Roman law. Its influence on common law legal systems...
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