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    In the Roman Empire, a mansio (from the Latin word mansus, the perfect passive participle of manere "to remain" or "to stay") was an official stopping...
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    concentrated on the sites of the mansio and bath-house. The remains visible today are those of the stone bath house and mansio, built in approximately 130 CE...
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    dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word mansio "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb manere "to dwell". The...
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    followed. The archaeologists discovered a Roman mansio now known as the "Roman Painted House". The mansio, a hostel for government officials, was built...
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  • Mesnil is derived from Latin mansionile, meaning a small mansio or dwelling, and may refer to: Mesnil, Mauritius, a suburb in the town of Vacoas-Phoenix...
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  • Bona Mansio Island (Bulgarian: остров Бона Мансио, romanized: ostrov Bona Mansio, IPA: [ˈɔstrov ˈbɔnɐ ˈmansio]) is the ice-covered island extending 750...
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    elsewhere the lord's wife presided over a separate residence (domus, aula or mansio in Latin) close to the keep, and the donjon was a barracks and headquarters...
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    twelve Roman miles, and tended to grow into villages or trading posts. A mansio (plural mansiones) was a privately run service station franchised by the...
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    Roman era, a temple dedicated to Jupiter was erected nearby along with a mansio serving travellers along the pass, and it is thought that Carthaginian general...
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    every 12 mi (19 km) – a typical day's journey for an ox-drawn wagon – was a mansio (literally: "a sojourn", from which derive the English word "mansion" and...
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    the Catania-Agrigento road, as mentioned in the Itinerarium Antonini as a mansio or statio, for travellers looking for a shelter for the night and a change...
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    district of West Sussex, England. It is close to a Roman way station or mansio on the Chichester to Silchester Way. Because titty is a slang term for breast...
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    Polis, près de la commune de Babjë, que se trouvait la station Ad Dianam (mansio Grandavia). Près du pont de Qukës se trouvait la station In Candavia (mutatio...
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    evidence for small-scale Roman settlement in the area: there may have been a mansio (staging-post) here. Later, in the 5th to 7th centuries, a large pagan Saxon...
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    emperor Claudius a good Roman road through the pass was completed with a mansio at the top and a temple to Jupiter Poeninus, resulting in the name Mons...
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    (Latin: Viziana - Vizianum) or Station Viciano was a Roman road station (mansio type) of unclear location, somewhere in Kosovo field. Viciana was a stopping...
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    included two baths (thermae), a large public building complex—possibly a mansio, a mithraeum, a harbor on the Rhine, and Gallo-Roman temple district. Many...
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    of the Ortsbezirk Nord-Ost. The name comes from the Latin phrase "bona mansio" (literally: good harborage) which has its roots in the time of the Roman...
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    of which was close to a crossing point of the River Arun. The Alfoldean mansio, which is partly covered by the A29 road, was investigated in 2006 by the...
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  • by Laesus, a ship's captain, with whom Falco then shares a meal at the mansio. Falco finally tracks down Gordianus at the Temple of Hera at Cape Colonna...
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  • Padyandus (redirect from Mansio Opodanda)
    different forms; as Paduandus (Tab. Peut.), Podandos (It. Ant. p. 145), Mansio Opodanda (It. Hieros. p. 578), and Rhegepodandos (Hierocl. p 699). The place...
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    Retrieved 9 December 2022. Montessori, Mansio (1 April 2021). "Montessori Stages of Development: The 4 Planes". Mansio Montessori. Retrieved 9 December 2022...
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    The mansio...
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    unit milites praeventores dating to 378 AD, and where there was also a mansio included on the Tabula Peutingeriana dating from the 3rd c. AD. These milites...
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  • Island Irving Island Watkins Island Metis Island St. Christopher Island Bona Mansio Island St. Brigid Island Todorova Island St. Isidore Island Chakarov Island...
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    Elbasan. In the second century BC, a Roman trading post recorded in Latin as Mansio Scampa (also in Ancient Greek: Σκάμπα) near the site of modern Elbasan developed...
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    fortress, it had become a civilian settlement (vicus) with a bath house and a mansio by the 2nd century. Letocetum fell into decline by the 4th century and the...
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  • encouraged by the building of what has been interpreted as a large stone mansio for the provincial postal service. It was a centre for pottery production...
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  • Aldodean was a Roman settlement founded as a mansio on Stane Street. Its remains are now near the village of Slinfold in West Sussex. They have been investigated...
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    This annex later contained a large courtyard building, thought to be a mansio, whose remains still exist up to a metre in height. It is thought that the...
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