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    The Porta Asinaria is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome. Dominated by two protruding tower blocks and associated guard rooms, it was built between 271...
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    clockwise): Porta Portuensis Porta Aurelia / San Pancrazio Porta Settimiana Porta Aurelia-Sancti Petri (also known as Porta Cornelia) Porta Asinaria. A section...
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  • abandoned Roman aqueduct. December 9 – Belisarius enters Rome through the Porta Asinaria, and the Gothic garrison of 4,000 men flees the city. He sends an urgent...
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  • Porta Asinaria Porta Aurelia Pancraziana Porta Aurelia-Sancti Petri Porta Clausa Porta Flaminia Porta Latina Porta Praenestina Porta Metronia Porta Nomentana...
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  • Porta can refer to: Porta (rapper) (born 1988), stagename of Christian Jiménez Bundo, a Spanish rap singer Porta (surname), surname La Porta, a commune...
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    The Augustus of Prima Porta (Italian: Augusto di Prima Porta) is a full-length portrait statue of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. The statue was discovered...
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    Via Asinaria was an ancient Roman road that started from Porta Asinaria in the Aurelian walls (Rome). It was somehow connected with the Via Latina, as...
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    Porta Pia was one of the northern gates in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. One of Pope Pius IV's civic improvements to the city, it is named after...
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    December 546, when his men scaled the walls at night and opened the Porta Asinaria. Procopius states that Totila was aided by some Isaurian troops from...
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    foundations) are still to be seen. Ten years later, the Porta Asinaria also closed to be replaced by the new Porta San Giovanni. The original 3rd-century left-hand...
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    The Porta Maggiore ("Larger Gate"), or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome...
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    The Porta del Popolo, or Porta Flaminia, is a city gate of the Aurelian Walls of Rome that marks the border between Piazza del Popolo and Piazzale Flaminio...
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  • The Porta Asinaria or Asinarian Gate, through which Totila entered Rome...
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    led to the definitive closure of the neighboring and more imposing Porta Asinaria, of Aurelian date, which was by the 1570s proving unable to sustain...
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    Porta Metronia is a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The gate is located in the southern section of the wall between Porta San...
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    the wall circle, integrated former structures within the wall itself. Porta Asinaria – Gate of the Aurelian walls, a landmark of Rome, Italy Lateran Obelisk –...
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    Porta Portese is an ancient city gate, located at the end of Via Portuense, where it meets Via Porta Portese, about a block from the banks of the Tiber...
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    The Porta Latina (Latin - Latin Gate) is a single-arched gate in the Aurelian Walls of ancient Rome. It marked the Rome end of the Via Latina and gives...
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    Porta Pinciana is a gate of the Aurelian Walls in Rome. The name derives from the gens Pincia, who owned the eponymous hill (Pincian Hill). In ancient...
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    The Porta Asinaria, a gate in the Aurelian Walls...
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    The Porta Caelimontana or Celimontana was a gate in the Servian Wall on the rise of the Caelian Hill (Caelius Mons). The Via Caelimontana ran from it;...
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    Porta Settimiana is one of the gates of the Aurelian walls in Rome, Italy. It rises at the northern vertex of the rough triangle traced by the town walls...
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    Porta Cavalleggeri was one of the gates of the Leonine Wall in Rome (Italy). Its remains are now walled in the stretch of wall facing the square that...
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    The Porta Esquilina (or Esquiline Gate) was a gate in the Servian Wall, of which the Arch of Gallienus is extant today. Tradition dates it back to the...
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    The Porta San Paolo (English: Saint Paul Gate) is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The Via Ostiense Museum...
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    Porta Pertusa is one of the gates of the Leonine Wall in Rome (Italy). It is constituted by three openings: two secondary accesses on both sides of the...
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    and gates of Rome, 6th century. Totila and his men entered via the Porta Asinaria, in the southeast. Belligerents Eastern Roman Empire Ostrogoths Commanders...
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  • The Porta Asinaria, through which the East Roman army entered Rome....
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    The Porta San Sebastiano is the largest and one of the best-preserved gates passing through the Aurelian Walls in Rome (Italy). Originally known as the...
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    Porta San Pancrazio is one of the southern gates of the Aurelian walls in Rome, Italy. The gate houses the National Association of Garibaldi Veterans...
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