at the mouth of the tiber
11Via Salaria — The Via Salaria was an ancient Roman road in Italy.It eventually ran from Rome (from Porta Salaria of the Aurelian Walls) to Castrum Truentinum (Porto d Ascoli) on the Adriatic coast a distance of 242 km. The road also passed through Reate… …
12HMS Imperieuse (1793) — The Impérieuse was a 40 gun Minerve class frigate of the French Navy. She later served in the Royal Navy as HMS Imperieuse and HMS Unite .In 1788, she cruised in the Middle East, and the Aegean sea the two following years. She performed another… …
13Sack of Rome (546) — The sack of Rome in 546 was carried out by the Gothic king Totila during the Gothic Wars. Towards the end of Totila was based at Tivoli and, in pursuit of his quest to conquer the region moved against Rome. The city s defenses held firm however,… …
14GEOLOGY — The geological framework of ancient Etruria had an important constraining effect on the political framework in which the Etruscans developed. A first key structural feature of Etruria is the presence of the Apennines, which contain Etruria,… …
15OSTIA — the seaport of ancient Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber, now in ruins …
16Italy — • In ancient times Italy had several other names: it was called Saturnia, in honour of Saturn; Enotria, wine producing land; Ausonia, land of the Ausonians; Hesperia, land to the west (of Greece); Tyrrhenia, etc. The name Italy, which seems to… …
17Rome — /rohm/, n. 1. Harold (Jacob), born 1908, U.S. lyricist and composer. 2. Italian, Roma. a city in and the capital of Italy, in the central part, on the Tiber: ancient capital of the Roman Empire; site of Vatican City, seat of authority of the… …
18Ostia Antica — Marketsquare of Ostia Antica. Ostia Antica is a large archeological site, close to the modern suburb of Ostia (Rome), that was the location of the harbour city of ancient Rome, which is approximately 30 km to the northeast. Ostia in Latin… …
19Portus — For homonyms, see Porto (disambiguation) Porto (Italian) or Portus (Latin) was a town in Lazio or Latium, just south of Rome, Italy. It was an ancient harbour on the right bank of the mouth of the Tiber.Ancient PortusClaudian phaseRome s original …
20Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …
