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Europe. Pompeii ( / pɒmˈpeɪ ( i )/ pom-PAY- (ee), Latin: [pɔmˈpei̯.iː]) was an ancient city in what is now the comune (municipality) of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, the city was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the ...
The Italian Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Italy, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome, under the Conference of Italian Bishops. The pope serves also as Primate of Italy and Bishop of Rome. In addition to Italy, two other sovereign states are included in Italian dioceses: San Marino and the Vatican ...
The Roman conquest of Britain was the Roman Empire 's conquest of most of the island of Britain, which was inhabited by the Celtic Britons. It began in earnest in AD 43 under Emperor Claudius, and was largely completed in the southern half of Britain (most of England and Wales) by AD 87, when the Stanegate was established.
Italy Roman Catholic cathedral stubs (61 P) Pages in category "Roman Catholic cathedrals in Italy" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 231 total.
Politics of ancient Rome. A consul was the highest elected public official of the Roman Republic ( c. 509 BC to 27 BC). Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the cursus honorum —an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspired—after that of the censor, which was reserved for former consuls. [1]
Adoption, adaptation, and innovation in pre-Roman Italy: paradigms for cultural change. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 9782503602325. Anati, Emmanuel (1964). La civiltà di Val Camonica. Milan: Il Saggiatore (casa editrice). Buti, G. Gianna-Devoto, Giacomo (1974), Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia, Sansoni Università.
Como and its lake. Life Electric, by Daniel Libeskind, to celebrate scientist Alessandro Volta (2015). Como (Italian pronunciation: ⓘ, locally ⓘ; Comasco: Còmm, Cómm or Cùmm;) is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.
