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    was built in 1644 as part of the Janiculum Walls which replaced the Porta Portuensis. The gate and walls were built by Vincenzo Maculani; commissioned by...
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  • part of its course is identical with that of the Via Campana. The Porta Portuensis of the Aurelian Walls had a double arch, probably owing to the amount...
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    on the right bank of the Tiber (the other ones are Porta Portuensis, no longer extant, and Porta San Pancrazio), that rises just in the place where it...
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  • Porta Portuensis (or Porta Maggiore), a gate in the third-century Aurelian Walls of Rome Porta Praetoria, the main gate of a Roman castrum Porta Praenestina...
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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...
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    to Porta Santo Spirito, as well as the Porta itself, were by now almost useless; Porta Settimiana became useless as well, while Porta Portuensis, closed...
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    city or kill its inhabitants. Genseric agreed. He entered through the Porta Portuensis and plundered a large amount of gold, silver and many other valuables...
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    important port. With the accompanying growth of importance of the Via Portuensis from the time of Constantine onwards, that of the Via Ostiensis correspondingly...
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    (through the Porta Aurelia) and the Via Portuensis (through the Porta Portuensis). The final gate in the Aurelian Walls in this region was the Porta Settimiana...
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  • Porta Caelimontana Porta Capena Porta Carmentalis Porta Collina Porta Esquilina Porta Flumentana Porta Fontinalis Porta Lavernalis Porta Naevia Porta...
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    century AD. They built a new road, the Via Portuensis, to connect Rome with Fiumicino, leaving the city by Porta Portese (the port gate). Both ports were...
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    part of the Aurelian wall and it was located right in front of the Porta Portuensis. In 374 there was a heavy flood of the Tiber, and it is likely that...
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    Portuense Quarter. The Lungotevere takes its name from the ancient Via Portuensis, that led to the city of Portus; it has been established as per Deliberation...
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    the Tiber lay outside the city wall at the first milestone of the Via Portuensis. Cleopatra stayed in them during her 44 BC visit to Rome, since no foreign...
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    thoroughfare as the road approached the Porta Portese, the corresponding gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome for the Via Portuensis. One claim for the first divided...
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    Christ. Bos Albanus in portu. Alexander VI. Epiſcopus Cardinalis Albanus & Portuenſis, cuius inſignia Bos. 60. Bull of Alba in the harbor Alexander VI (1492–1503)...
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    marked by the stretch of the Janiculum walls between Porta San Pancrazio (Piazzale Aurelio) and Porta Portese. Eastward, the quarter borders with quartiere...
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    "Interim autem, Paschali papa defuncto, venerabilis pater dominus Petrus Portuensis episcopus, qui primatum post papam per longa jam diutius tempora detinuerat...
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    Mezzocammino, 12G Spinaceto, 12H Vallerano-Castel di Leva, 12I Decima, 12L Porta Medaglia, 12M Castel Romano, 12N Santa Palomba, 12X Tor di Valle Municipio...
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    three lions, according to the scroll she is holding, is the "Sibilla Portuensis"; but it could also be the "Sibilla Libica," because of the presence of...
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    jurisdiction, and from that point the suburbicarin bishops would be: Ostiensis, Portuensis et Sanctae Rufinae, Albanensis, Praenestina, Sabinensis, Tusculana, Veliterna...
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