Roman
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- A thing or person of or from the city of Rome Rome (English pronunciation: /ˈroʊm/; Italian: Roma listen , pronounced [ˈroːma]; Latin: Rōma) is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality (central area), with over 2.7 million residents in 1,285.3 km2 (496.3 sq mi). While the population of the urban area was estimated by Eurostat to have been 3.46.
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History
- Ancient Rome Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea, it became one of the largest empires in the ancient world (9th century BC – 5th century AD)
- Roman Kingdom The Roman Kingdom was the monarchical government of the city of Rome and its territories. Little is certain about the history of the Roman Kingdom, as no written records from that time survive, and the histories about it were written during the Republic and Empire and are largely based on legend. However, the history of the Roman Kingdom began (753 BC to 509 BC)
- Roman Republic The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterised by a republican form of government. It began with the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, c. 509 BC, and lasted 482 years until its subversion, through a series of civil wars, into the Principate form of government and the Imperial period (509 BC to 44 BC)
- Roman Empire The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean. The term is used to describe the Roman state during and after the time of the first emperor, Augustus (27 BC to 476/1453 AD)
- Roman Britain Roman Britain was the part of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and about 410, part of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and about 410
- Roman citizenship Citizenship in ancient Rome was a privileged social status afforded to certain individuals with respect to laws, property, and governance
- Roman alphabet or Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was borrowed and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome, whose alphabet was then adapted and further modified by the ancient, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans
- Roman architecture The Architecture of Ancient Rome adopted the external Greek architecture around 12th century B.C. for their own purposes, creating a new architectural style. The two styles are often considered one body of classical architecture. This approach is considered reproductive,[citation needed] and sometimes it hinders scholars' understanding and ability
- Roman army The Roman army is the generic term for the terrestrial armed forces deployed by the kingdom of Rome (to ca. 500 BC), the Roman Republic (500-31 BC), the Roman Empire (31 BC - AD 476) and its successor, the Byzantine empire (476-1453). It is thus a term that spans approximately 2,000 years, during which the Roman armed forces underwent numerous
- Roman calendar The Roman calendar changed its form several times in the time between the foundation of Rome and the fall of the Roman Empire. This article generally discusses the early Roman or 'pre-Julian' calendars. The calendar used after 46 BC is discussed under Julian calendar
- Roman law The term Roman law denotes the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the seventh century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the language of government. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence — from the Twelve Tables to the Corpus Juris, the legal system of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
- Roman numerals Roman numerals are a numeral system of ancient Rome based on letters of the alphabet, which are combined to signify the sum of their values. The first ten Roman numerals are, numeral system where certain letters are given a numeral value
- Imperial cult (ancient Rome) The Roman Imperial cult identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority of the Roman State. The framework for Imperial cult was formulated during the early Principate of Augustus, and was rapidly established throughout the Empire and its provinces, with marked local variations in its reception and, Roman religion
- Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire was the Roman Empire as it existed during the Middle Ages, centered on the capital of Constantinople, and ruled by the Byzantine emperors, direct successors to the ancient Roman emperors. It was called the Roman Empire and also Romania (Greek: Ῥωμανία, Rhōmanía) by its inhabitants and neighbours. As the distinction (330/476/629 to 1453), a Late Antiquity and medieval continuation of the Greek-speaking portion of the Roman Empire
- Romaioi (Ρωμαίοι), Greek-speaking, Orthodox population of the Eastern Roman Empire dating to Late Antiquity (the term translates literally to "Roman")
- Romioi (Ρωμιοί), Greek-speaking, Orthodox population of the Rum-milet in the Ottoman Empire, or Greek-speaking Orthodox people today (the term translates literally to "Roman")
- Romanae or the Greco-Romans from Aetolia Acarnania that speak Romanesci
- Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire (HRE; German: Heiliges Römisches Reich , Latin: Imperium Romanum Sacrum (IRS), Italian: Sacro Romano Impero (SRI)) was for about a millennium a realm in Central Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in (c. 900 to 1806), a medieval state in Central Europe
Geography
- Roman, Bulgaria, a municipality near Pravets
- Romans-sur-Isère, in the Drôme département of France
- Roman, Romania, a city in Neamţ county
- Romans, Ain, a town in France
- Roman, Eure, France
- Romans, Deux-Sèvres, France
- Romans d'Isonzo, a town in Italy
- Roman roads The Roman roads were roads built by the Roman empire, intended for quick transport of material from one location to another, for cattle, vehicles, or any similar traffic along the path. They were essential for the growth of the Roman Empire. Roman roads enabled the Romans to move armies and trade goods and to communicate news. The Roman road
- Roman Valley, Nova Scotia
- Saint Roman, Monaco
Christianity
- Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with more than a billion members. The Church's leader is the Pope who holds supreme authority in concert with the College of Bishops of which he is the head. A communion of the Western church and 22 autonomous Eastern Catholic churches (called, a Christian church that professes the Catholic faith
- Roman Missal The Roman Missal is the liturgical book that contains the texts and rubrics for the celebration of the Mass in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, a book containing prayers and readings for a Roman Catholic Mass
- Epistle to the Romans The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, usually referred to simply as Romans, is the sixth book in the New Testament. Biblical scholars agree that it was written by the Apostle Paul to explain that Salvation is offered through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is by far the longest of the Pauline epistles, and is considered his "most important, a letter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible
Typography
- Roman type Popular roman styles include Bembo, Baskerville, Caslon, Bodoni, Times New Roman and Garamond, an upright typeface style, contrasted to italic or a synonym for serif In typography, serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface . A typeface without serifs is called sans-serif, from the French sans, meaning “without”. Some typography sources refer to sans-serif typefaces as "grotesque" ( or antiqua fonts
- Times Roman Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper, The Times, in 1931, designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype. It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly printed and typographically behind the times. The font was supervised, a font
- Roman (typeface), a raster font packaged with Windows XP
Literature
- The word for Novel A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century in many European languages.
- Romance (genre) As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about the marvelous adventures of a chivalrous, heroic knight errant, often of super-human ability, who often goes on a, a genre of Medieval French literature
- Nouveau roman The nouveau roman is a type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres. Émile Henriot coined the title in an article in the popular French newspaper Le Monde on May 22, 1957 to describe certain writers who experimented with style in each novel, creating an essentially new style each time, a type of French novel
- Ar-Rum Surat Ar-Rum (The Romans, referring to the Byzantine Empire) is the 30th sura of the Qur'an with 60 ayat. It calls Muslims to look forward to the victory it prophesies of the Emperor Heraclius' Christians over the Persian Zoroastrians. In it, Christianity is shown preference over non-Abrahamic faiths, the 30th book in the Qu'ran, is sometimes translated as The Romans
Music
- Roman, Music artist and producer
- Roman, an album by the Japanese musical group Sound Horizon
Mythology
People
- Roman (name), a male given name derived from Latin Romanus
- See the above article for persons with the given name "Roman"
- Bernard Romans, Dutch-born navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter and writer
- Valter Roman and Petre Roman, Romanian politicians
- Johan Helmich Roman Johan Helmich Roman was a Swedish Baroque composer. He has been called "the father of Swedish music" or "the Swedish Handel.", Swedish composer
Science
- Roman pot, a device used in accelerator physics
- Roman surface, self-intersecting immersion of the real projective plane into three-dimensional geometrical space
- Roman chamomile, a plant
- Roman bean, also known as "Borlotti bean".
Other uses
- Roman (film)
- Roman candle (firework)
- Roman chair, the exercise equipment
- Romans, a race in the Heroscape Universe
- The Romans (Doctor Who), An episode of the BBC production, Doctor Who
- Roman (vehicle manufacturer), a Romanian truck manufacturer
See also
Note: the following entries are arranged in an etymological tree.
- Roma
- Romaic Modern Greek refers to the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present
- Romanus
- Aromanians Aromanians ) are a people living throughout the southern Balkans, especially in northern Greece, Albania, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria, and as an emigrant community in Romania (Dobruja). They are the second most populous group of Vlachs, behind modern-day Romanians
- Romagna Romagna is an Italian historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna. Traditionally, it is limited by the Apennines to the south-west, the Adriatic to the east, and the rivers Reno and Sillaro to the north and west. The region's major cities include Ravenna, Cesena, Faenza, Forlì, Imola,
- Romain
- Romaine
- Roman
- Romana (disambiguation)
- Romand Franco-Provençal , Arpitan, or Romand (in Switzerland) (Vernacular: francoprovençâl, arpetan, patouès; Italian: francoprovenzale, arpitano, dialetto, patoà; French: francoprovençal, arpitan, patois) is a Romance language with several distinct dialects that form a linguistic sub-group separate from Langue d'Oïl and Langue d'Oc. The name
- Romania (disambiguation)
- Romanicus
- Romanization (disambiguation)
- Romano
- Romanos Romanos , also known as Saint Romanos the Melodist or Roman the Hymnographer, was one of the greatest of Greek hymnographers, called "the Pindar of rhythmic poetry". He flourished during the sixth century, which is considered to be the "Golden Age" of Byzantine hymnography
- Romansh language Romansh (also spelled Romansch, Rumantsh, or Romanche; Romansh: rumantsch/rumauntsch/romontsch; German: Rätoromanisch) is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, Italian and French. It is one of the Rhaeto-Romance languages, believed to have descended from the Vulgar Latin variety spoken by Roman era occupiers of the
- Rûm Rûm, also Roum or Rhum , is a very indefinite term used at different times in the Muslim world to refer to the Balkans and Anatolia generally, and for the Byzantine Empire in particular, for the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm in Asia Minor, and for Greeks inhabiting Ottoman or modern Turkish territory as well as for Greek Cypriots. The name is loaned
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How and why did the Roman republic become an Empire?
Q. why did the Roman republic fall and the empire begin? can someone just give me info on the whole thing?
Asked by MJ - Thu Jun 5 21:51:06 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments
A. It's a question a lot complicated and strictly related with the political events of the period. In the 30 BC Octavian entered in Alexandria, while M. Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide. Octavian was exiting from the war with exceptional powers and reputation, to which he had to give a legal appearance, in order to create the constitutional presuppositions for the use of this power. That means keeping the institutional republican schema for which formally he fought. From this came a politics tending to "compromise": slow, prudent, pragmatic and empirical, in order to insert in ideal republican forms an autocratic power in facts, favoring a social balancing between the order defeated (the senatus) and the victorious classes (equites and… [cont.]
Answered by thraling - Fri Jun 6 04:36:16 2008
Q. why did the Roman republic fall and the empire begin? can someone just give me info on the whole thing?
Asked by MJ - Thu Jun 5 21:51:06 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments
A. It's a question a lot complicated and strictly related with the political events of the period. In the 30 BC Octavian entered in Alexandria, while M. Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide. Octavian was exiting from the war with exceptional powers and reputation, to which he had to give a legal appearance, in order to create the constitutional presuppositions for the use of this power. That means keeping the institutional republican schema for which formally he fought. From this came a politics tending to "compromise": slow, prudent, pragmatic and empirical, in order to insert in ideal republican forms an autocratic power in facts, favoring a social balancing between the order defeated (the senatus) and the victorious classes (equites and… [cont.]
Answered by thraling - Fri Jun 6 04:36:16 2008
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