Its principal focus is status and identity in Roman cities, and how they were expressed through institutions, public buildings and facilities, private houses and funerary monuments, against a backdrop of the history of the cities, their rise, destruction, preservation and excavation.De la Bédoyère...
Prosperity and Inequality: Imperial Hegemony and Neighbourhood Formation in the Cities of Roman Italy 159halls4. Between the mid-1st century B.C. and the mid-1st century A.D., the neighbourhood that lived together around Cardo IV was transformed from a community of, roughly, equals to a much...
(National) Road. When theUnited Statesexperienced great waves of European immigration beginning in the 1840s, large numbers of Germans and Irish arrived in northern Illinois; and, from the 1880s untilWorld War I, immigrants came from Poland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Austria, and Russia...
《The Court Cities of Northern Italy》是2010年6月21日Cambridge University Press出版的图书，作者是Rosenberg, Charles。内容简介 This volume examines the painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced in nine important court cities of Italy during the course of the fourteenth, fifteenth,...
Villa Arianna is one of the oldest Roman villas in Stabiae (modern Castellammare di Stabia, Italy), dating from the 2nd century BCE. It is situated on the hills of Varano, overlooking the Bay of Naples. / Photo by Carole Raddato,AHE, Creative Commons ...
Rome is the place where the Roman Catholic Church was born, one of the most powerful religious communities in human history. Here, in the year of 1200, Innocent II founded the papal secular state, followed by the Vatican City as a sovereign state. The city of Rome today is the result of...
Capital city of the Emilia-Romagna region and home of theoldest continually operating university of the Western world, founded in 1088. One of the top cities in Italy in terms of quality of life. The name of the city presumably comes from Bononia, name of the Roman colony founded in c.18...
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476, Constantinople became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and was looked upon as the new Roman capital as political power gradually moved eastwards. After the fall of the Western Empire, the emperor in Constantinople became the sole Rom...
Italy is home to some of the most iconic cities in Europe. In Bologna you can find the world’s oldest university, and of course the ruins of a great empire in Rome. Use this free map quiz game as a classroom activity to supplement any units on Italy. Th
Cairo, city, capital of Egypt, and one of the largest cities in Africa. Cairo has stood for more than 1,000 years on the same site on the banks of the Nile, primarily on the eastern shore, some 500 miles... Genoa Genoa, city and Mediterranean seaport in northwestern Italy. It is th...