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A settlement on the lower Tiber that grew from a central-Italian city-state into the administrative and symbolic centre of a Mediterranean empire.
41.9, 12.5 · exact · traditional foundation 753 BCE (legendary); continuously occupied to the present; imperial capital in practice until the court moved to Milan and Ravenna in the late 3rd-5th centuries CE
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- A place in: Roman Empire · 7 places
- A place in: Architecture Through Time · 16 places
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- is located in of The Pantheon, Rome — The rotunda stands in the Campus Martius, within the historic centre of Rome.
- is located in of Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome — Built on the drained lake of Nero's confiscated Golden House and given back to the public, the amphitheatre is imperial legitimacy expressed as architecture - the emperor returning private land to the people.
- is originates at of Via Appia — The road runs from Rome to Brundisium, a port for Greece and the East - the first Roman road exists to get an army from the capital to a harbour.
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