Roma
Details
- Names
Roma
Urbe
Rom
Roman
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- On 7 hills over swampy Tiber river; Etruscan city by 8th cen. BCE, their kings expelled and republic established by 500 BCE; soon ruled vast area and was center of Empire from 31 BCE; declined when capital moved to Constantinople in 330 CE; revived under popes.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Annuario Generale (1980); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-); OED2 on CD-ROM (1994); TCI: Roma e Dintorni (1977); Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Active
- Died
Abe Nobuya (Japanese, 1913-1971)
Eugene Berman (American, born Russia, 1899-1972)
Cornelis Cort (Dutch, 1533-1578)
Sanford Roth (American, 1906-1962)
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