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    The Via Ostiensis (Italian: via Ostiense) was an important road in ancient Rome. It ran west 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the city of Rome to its important...
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    the Via Appia, the Via Ostiensis, the Via Labicana, the Via Tiburtina, and the Via Nomentana. With the exception of the Via Ostiensis (Italian: Via Ostiense)...
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    two ancient roads, the Via Ostiensis and another road that ran west to the Tiber along the approximate line of the modern Via Marmorata. Due to its incorporation...
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    Roman roads (redirect from Via publica)
    joined the Via Appia. Via Ostiensis, from Rome to Ostia Via Postumia (148 BC), from Aquileia through Verona across the Apennines to Genoa Via Popilia (132...
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    of the gate was Porta Ostiensis, as it was located at the beginning of via Ostiense, the road that connected Rome and Ostia. Via Ostiense was an important...
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    she remained alive, but was beheaded at the tenth milestone on the Via Ostiensis—the road from Rome to Ostia. It is difficult to establish the true identity...
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    up with the via Ostiensis. Porta Trigemina – this triple gate near the Forum Boarium also led to the via Ostiensis. The Servian Wall at Via di Sant Anselmo...
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    body was buried outside the walls of Rome, at the second mile on the Via Ostiensis, on the estate owned by a Christian woman named Lucina. It was here...
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    south wall. 250 CE Museo Archeologico Ostiense Temple of Bellona, Ostia Via Ostiensis "History - Ostia Antica". www.ostiaantica.beniculturali.it. Archived...
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  • Suburanus Via Appia Via Ardeatina Via Asinaria Via Aurelia Via Cornelia Via Flaminia Via Labicana Via Lata Via Latina Via Laurentina Via Ostiensis Via Portuensis...
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    Rome, built over their graves, in the catacomb of Commodilla, on the Via Ostiensis, near the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, and restored by...
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  • question of the nomenclature of the group of roads between the Via Ardeatina and the Via Ostiensis is somewhat difficult, and much depends on the view taken...
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    lifestyles of local elites. Graves at Castel di Decima, located on the via Ostiensis 10 miles (16 km) south of Rome date to Latial IV and show much more...
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    left bank of the Tiber River, some eleven miles from Rome along the Via Ostiensis. This was the first clear example of land development undertaken by a...
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    along the Via Ostiensis, reached the Magliana bridge. Meanwhile, the 3rd Panzergrenadier Division advanced from north along the Via Aurelia, Via Cassia,...
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    Italy, Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia and Illyricum); Via Aurelia (to the Galliae and Hispaniae); Via Ostiensis (to Ostia and the main harbours of Corsica and...
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  • martyrdom, is that they were buried at the seventh milestone of the Via Ostiensis on that date. However, legend has it that Cyriacus was a Roman nobleman...
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    Via Ostiensis. The Martyrologium Hieronymianum (5th century), at the same date, cites the recurrence of Peter in the Vatican, Paul on Via Ostiensis and...
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  • to be accurate in the major details. The observer is standing on the Via Ostiensis at the foot of the Aventine, which is at his back. The river flows toward...
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    dedicated to the saint as well: "'...and so you visit Saint Paul on the Via Ostiensis, and to the south see the church of Saint Thecla standing on a hill...
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  • With the growth of importance of the Via Portuensis from the time of Constantine onwards, that of the Via Ostiensis correspondingly decreased. Procopius...
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    spilled a few kilometers away to fill «the once malarial lowlands of Via Ostiensis», without any survey being made of what was being destroyed. Upon completion...
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  • according to Marcus Antistius Labeo there cited, it was situated on the Via Ostiensis, eleven miles from Rome, and apparently immediately adjoining the Tiber...
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    so-called Acqua Santa ("Holy Water") of the Fonte Egeria. There, the Via Ostiensis crossed the river with a bridge known as the Travicella. In the second...
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    "Ariete II" the Granatieri defended Rome. The Granatieri fought along the Via Ostiensis for two days before falling back to the Porta San Paolo where the division...
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  • Thomasson, “Iscrizioni del Sepolcreto di via Ostiense” (Inscriptions from Selpulchres of the Via Ostiensis, abbreviated ISOstiense), in Opuscula Romana...
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    Clodia Italy, Central ? ? Ponte presso Tor di Valle ? Rome 10 km SW on Via Ostiensis Italy, Rome & vicinity 1 × S S Ponte presso Torre Pastore ? Civita Castellana...
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    modest bathhouse (II, II, 3) is found close to the Porta Romana and Via Ostiensis. It has been speculated that it was the guild headquarters for the Cisiarii...
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    gateway to accommodate heavy traffic that passed into the city from the Via Ostiensis. It was known for the crowd of beggars that were found just outside...
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    by the Vicus Piscinae Publicae to the north, the Via Ostiensis to the west, the Via Appia and the Via Latina to the east, and the Aurelian Walls to the...
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