Ravenna (/rəˈvɛnə/ rə-VEN-ə; Italian: [raˈvenna], also local pronunciation: [raˈvɛn(n)a] ; Romagnol: Ravèna, Ravêna) is the capital city of the Province...

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...

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...

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...

The Ravenna Cosmography (Latin: Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, lit. "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names covering the...

termale di Bagnoli S. Gregorio a Capo d’Orlando, in AttiIV Colloquio AISCOM [Palermo 1996], Ravenna 1997, p. 259-272) Portals: Architecture History Italy...

won). Afterwards, the captives were spared, but were sent to exile in Ravenna, where Thumelicus was raised. Tacitus promised to recount his fate "at...

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...

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...

The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana [ˈreːs ˈpuːblɪka roːˈmaːna]) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of...

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...

independence even had a Dominican president whose ancestors came from Ravenna—Francisco Gregorio Billini. Indeed, Billini was president between 1884...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

saints appear in the mosaics of Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, at Ravenna, between Saints Paulina and Christina. A Passio SS. Anatoliae et Audacis...

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...

actor and writer Romanus (bishop of Rochester) Romanus (exarch), Exarch of Ravenna The hypothetical Petrus Romanus, a figure mentioned in the Prophecy of...

city of Ravenna from which it governed the small fragments of Italy, including Rome, that acknowledged its sovereignty. The fall of Ravenna meant that...

Vincenzo Gallina (1795, Ravenna - 1842, Aleppo), was an Italian Carbonari, a liberal lawyer or merchant. After the Carbonari revolution in 1821 he was...

assimilation which made the Roman Empire possible"; entry on "Interpretatio romana" in Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2006), p. 974....

Martyres). Atop the column's capital was erected by Smaragdus, the Exarch of Ravenna, a "dazzling" gilded statue of Phocas (which probably only briefly stood...

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...

represent the style of contemporary palace decoration. The mosaics of the Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina in Sicily are the largest collection of...

in the late Roman itineraries such as the Tabula Peutingeriana or the Ravenna Cosmography. An imperial villa is attested in Melantias during Emperor...

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...

plural of mansio). The Ariminum to Ravenna tract went by the Sabis mansio and the current Cervia saltworks. North of Ravenna it continued towards the lagoon...