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- Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...r dm|31|12|N|29|15|E|}}, 208 km (129 miles) northwest of [[Cairo]]. The Canopic mouth of the [[Nile]]...
3: ...s of Egypt quickly became one of the greatest cities of the [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]] w...
5: ...right|Alexandria's state-of-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated i...
19: ...er's seers, and in particular [[Aristander of Telmessus]], interpreted this as an omen that the city w...
21: ...knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the mon... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
7: ...small>Emblem of the [[Palaeologus]] dynasty, as preserved today at the entrance of the Ecumenical Patr...
10: | Constantine makes Constantinople his capital.
13: ...is permanently split into Eastern and Western halves, following the death of Theodosius I.
15: | [[527]] || Justinian I becomes emperor.
24: | The [[Lombard]] invasion results in the loss of most of Italy. - Timeline of Ancient Rome (22347 bytes)
6: ...ion of the [[Roman senate]] and the priestly offices
13: [[Image:Roman_colleseum.jpg|thumb|Roman Colleseum. Photo provided by [http://classroomclipart.co...
18: ...; The office of ''[[pontifex maximus]]'' (high priest) is created
22: ...nes of the plebs]] and two [[aedile|plebeian aediles]] are elected for the first time
23: ...bune of the Plebs is raised from two to ten tribunes - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...gustus, the pre-Augustan state is conventionally described as the [[Roman Republic]], since the struct...
5: ...and the [[Western Roman Empire]]. The end of the Western Empire is traditionally set in [[476]], when ...
7: ...zantine Empire]], [[Eastern Roman Empire]] and [[Western Roman Empire]], which are used interchangably...
9: ...ays of imperial majesty were common from the earliest days of the Empire.
11: ...]), the [[History of Russia|Russian/Kiev]] dynasties (see [[tsar|czars]]), and the [[German Empire]] (... - Rome (33048 bytes)
38: ...ircle the nine largest italian cities: Milan, Naples, Turin, Bologna, Palermo Catania, Florence, Genoa...
40: ...]], the highest rate among all of [[Italy]]'s cities.
42: ...c]], [[Roman Empire]]), and later the [[Papal States]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] and [[Italy|Italian Repub...
45: ... Greek ''Ρώμη'' meaning braveness, courage; more probably the connection is with a...
49: ... and of traders traveling north and south on the west side of the [[peninsula]]. - Ankara (15129 bytes)
2: ...apital of [[Turkey]] and the country's second largest city after [[Istanbul]]. The city has a populati...
4: ...], and the region's [[Muscat_grape|muscat]] [[grapes]].
6: ...is situated upon a steep and rocky hill, which rises 500 ft. above the plain on the left bank of the '...
8: ...e.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/home.html]</sup>
11: ... in the 2nd millennium BC by the [[Hittites|Hittites]], in the 10th century BC by the [[Phrygians]], t... - History of Greek and Roman Egypt (25856 bytes)
3: ... then from [[Constantinople]] until the Arab conquest in AD [[639]].
8: ...[331 BC]] he was ready to depart, and led his forces away to Phoenicia.
12: ...tics confusingly incestuous, and the later Ptolemies were increasingly feeble. The only Ptolemaic Quee...
14: ...in which most Egyptians were not in any case interested.
17: ...ned control of [[Libya]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] and [[Cyprus]]. When [[Antigonus]], ruler o... - Roman economy (23678 bytes)
2: ...]] (bronze), and the [[As (coin)|as]] (copper). These were used from the middle of the third century B...
4: ...nt in Greek influenced territories, even though these regions issued their own base coinage and some s...
6: ... trend continued to the end of the Empire in the West. See also [[Byzantine currency]].
10: ...5) by its end (comparing bread, wine and meat prices) and, over the same period, around one to three d...
12: ...coins were produced, their workmanship was sometimes very crude and of low quality.
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