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- The Romans in Britain - 100BC to 450AD - History of the period, with insights into Roman life, the military and how the Romans changed Britain. Includes British tribes, maps, Roman architecture and innovations.
- Lacus Curtius: Into the Roman World - Features a Roman Gazetteer, Greek and Latin texts, William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, a Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Pagan and Christian Rome, J. B. Bury's History of the Later Roman Empire, a Latin Inscriptions Site, a Roman atlas, and galleries of photos.
- Roman Numeral and Date Conversion - Offers a Roman calculator and a Roman numerals test.
- Lee's Useless Roman Numeral Converter - Convert from regular to Roman numerals and it also converts from Roman numerals to regular numbers.
- Roman Numeral Year Dates - Learn how to read Roman numerals and convert numbers from Roman to our Arabic numbers.
- Romans in Britain: Roman Towns - An introduction to the structure and layout of Roman towns, with sample plans by "Victius Maximus".
- Sale of the Empire to Didius Julianus - Section from Edward Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," explains how the Roman Emperor bought the Roman Empire at auction.
- Paul and Caesar: A New Reading of Romans - Article by N.T. Wright views Romans within the context of the widespread and increasing Caesar-cult of the Roman Empire.
- Terres romanes - Présentation d'une quinzaine de monuments de l'art roman et des thèmes de la sculpture romane.
- Roman and Arabic Numerals - Explains the use of Roman numerals.
Wikipedia Articles
- Roman army - The Roman army was a set of land-based military forces employed by the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and later Roman Empire as part of the Roman military. For its main infantry constituent and for much of its history, see Roman legion; for a catalogue of individual legions, dates and deployments, see List of Roman legions.
- Roman art - Roman art is the sculpture, pottery, painting, and other art produced in Ancient Rome or in territories under its rule from the founding of Rome in the middle of the 8th century BCE, through the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, and Roman Empire periods, until the decline of the Roman Empire by the 5th century CE. Influenced by the art of the Etruscans, ancient Greece and the Hellenistic world, and later by the art forms of countries it subsumed within its empire (especially Ancient ...
- Roman infantry tactics - Roman infantry tactics refers to the theoretical and historical deployment, formation and maneuvers of the Roman infantry from the start of the Roman Republic to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The article first presents a short overview of Roman training, followed by discussion of a typical battle situation.
- Roman legion - The Roman Legion (from Latin legio "military levy, conscription", from lego — "to collect") is a term that can apply both as a transliteration of legio ("conscription" or "army") to the entire Roman army and also, more narrowly (and more commonly), to the heavy infantry that was the basic military unit of the ancient Roman army in the period of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. In this latter meaning, it consisted of several cohorts of heavy infantry ...
- List of Holy Roman Empresses and German queens - Holy Roman Empress or Empress of the Holy Roman Empire is the title given to the consort of the Holy Roman Emperor. The elective dignity of Holy Roman Emperor was restricted to males only, therefore there was never a Holy Roman Empress regnant.