Roman Maps (Matthew White) -- Links. The Roman Empire at its Greatest Extent (John Vanderspoel) -- "This map of the Roman Empire was scanned from pages 16 & 17 of a 1925 reprint of the 1907 Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography... Clicking anywhere on this map will give you a...
Celebrations were held in this square when Emperor Constantine declared Istanbul the co-capital of theRoman Empirein 330. A porphyry column was erected in the Forum of Constantine (today Cemberlitas) in honor of the emperor. The remains of the Column of Constantine are still in this square. ...
The local population — Romanians - were the only Latin people in the eastern part of the former Roman Empire and the only Latin people to belong to the Orthodox faith. The oldest extant Hungarian chronicle, "Gesta Hungarorum" or The Deeds of the Hungarians, (based on older chronicles) do...
the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of the modern map of the post-colonial Near East, the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, the rise of Nazi Germany, and the events leading to the Second World War. All of the data, maps, and text for the complete edition of the Centenn...
- Antonine Wall - Another line of defense for the Roman Empire - ... ## Stories on the Historical Map --- Civilizations Rise and Fall - Russian eastward expansion of Siberia - Simberia, the land of the Simber people. - History of the Founding of the United States - God of Luck was...
During the Roman Empire, Roman influence reached Brittany, as attested by the presence of Roman-style villas and sanctuaries. However, such influence was far smaller in Northwestern France than in other parts of the Gaul21. With the decline of the Roman Empire (around the 3rd century CE), No...
One canwonder if this broaderaudience was extended to the provinces of the Roman Empire.In fact,given the spread of the use of Latin at the expense of indigenous languages–in particular, in the western part of the RomanEmpire–,wecan assume that in thefirst century BCE at least the ...
See an enlargement and more information|Order German emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire Collectively, these German emigrants comprised the largest non-British European migration to the American Colonies before the Revolution. What we now know as Germany was, before 1871, the Holy Roman Empire. It...
December 1740: Young King Frederick II leads the army of upstart Prussia in a surprise invasion of Austrian Silesia. He hopes for an easy conquest of the rich province at a time when the Austrian Empire appears vulnerable following the death of Charles VI, King of Austria and Holy Roman Empe...
Visiting the cave of the seven sleepers near the ancient ruins of Ephesus, (one of the biggest cities of the Roman Empire) was a disappointment. I had previously read many websites describing graves, a church and ancient inscriptions on the wall, yet I was stood looking at three walls of...