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...ion''') -- does not seem to have been a place of great importance in early antiquity; only [[bronze]] coins struck by it have been found. In [[Roman Republic|Ro == Late Middle Age ==

===Antiquity=== ===Late Antiquity===

...were installed on the basilica in about [[1254]]. They date to [[Classical Antiquity]]; by some accounts they once adorned the Arch of [[Trajan]]. The horses we === Notable Late Classical Statue, "The 4 Tetrarchs" ===

==Naples in the Ancient Era and in Late Antiquity== ...mselves were in the city to preach. Christians had a prominent role in the late years of the [[Roman Empire]]. The subterranean areas of Naples include not

...o main employers, [[Pertusola Sud]] and [[Montedison]], collapsed. By the late 1980s Crotone was in economic crisis, with many residents losing their jobs ...perseus.tufts.edu/ Harry Thurston Peck, ''Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquity'' 1898:] "Croton"

...tribes|Germanic people]] originally from [[Scandinavia]] that entered the late [[Roman Empire]]. ...]]. Grimoald managed to regain control over the duchies and pushed off the late attempt of the [[Byzantine emperor]] [[Constans II]] to conquer southern It

...e Elder]] (in [[Como]]) and [[Virgil]] (in Mantua) were born here. In late antiquity the strategic role of Lombardy was emphasized by the temporary moving of th ...like France and Austria, which waged a lengthy battle for Lombardy in the late 15th-early 16th century. After the decisive [[battle of Pavia]] (1525), the

...]]. Its continuous occupation may have been interrupted violently when the late 9th century [[Ausoni|Ausonian]] civilisation site was burned and apparently ...t pillage from it in a storm at sea. Many objects recovered from wrecks of antiquity are now in the Aeolian Museum at Lipari. Lipara became a Carthaginian naval

The Roman civilization is often grouped into "[[classical antiquity]]" with [[ancient Greece]], a civilization that inspired much of the [[cult ...[[7th century BC]]. The Etruscans apparently lost power in the area by the late [[6th century BC]], and at this point, the original Latin and Sabine tribes

The cuisines of the cultures around the Mediterranean had since antiquity been based on cereals, particularly various types of [[wheat]]. Porridge an ...ory proposed by [[Galen]] that dominated Western medical science from late Antiquity until the 17th century.

...and the [[Gauls]], the [[Roman Republic|Romans]] founded the [[Colonies in antiquity|colony]] of '''''Ariminum''''', probably from the name of a nearby river, A ...became in 263 BC a [[Latin colony]], very helpful to the Romans during the late Gallic wars.

...as a powerful and independent sovereign (even suzerain) entity since late antiquity to the present, even during periods when it held no territory (e.g. 1870 to ...hest civil authority of the Roman and Byzantine empires in Rome since late antiquity. Therefore, within this context, the State of the Vatican City is a true mo

...mographics during the "economic miracle" of the 1950s and '60s. But in the late 1980s and '90s, Rome's population began to fall because many residents, in ...ncient Rome|Religio Romana]] constituted the major religion of the city in antiquity. However, other religions remained represented within its ever-changing bou

===Antiquity=== ...iulian]] wine producers that often open for the evening and many stay open late offering food along with their wines.

...ady conquered the worlds of finance and politics looked to the writings of antiquity for new learning and an educated lifestyle to which they could aspire. Hors ...5.htm] are not so much for shopping as for drinking. From midday until the late hours of the night people gather at christmas markets to drink mulled wine