The structural history of the Roman military concerns the major transformations in the organization and constitution of ancient Rome's armed forces, "the most effective and long-lived military institu ...
Main article: Cádiz CathedralThe cupola of Cádiz CathedralOne of Cádiz's most famous landmarks is its cathedral. It sits on the site of an older cathedral, completed in 1260, which burned down in 1 ...
The widespread use of water mills or grain crushers in Italy is mentioned in passing by Pliny the Elder in 79 AD. A sequence of water mills was established at the terminus of the highest Roman aqueduc ...
Tabernae probably first appeared in Greece in locations that were important for economic activities around the end of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Upon the Roman Empire’s expansion into the Me ...
A commonly used definition of a ghetto is communities distinguished by a homogeneous race or ethnicity; usually determined by census tracts. Additionally, a key feature that developed throughout the p ...
Dictionaries list a number of possible origins for the originally Italian term, including "gheto" or "ghet", which means slag or waste in Venetian, and was used in this sense in a reference to a found ...
In Ancient Rome, a collegium (plural collegia, "joined by law") was any association with a legal personality. Such associations had various functions.FunctioningCollegia could function as guilds, soci ...
Strabo notes that insulae, like domus, had running water and sanitation. But this kind of housing was sometimes constructed at minimal expense for speculative purposes, resulting in insulae of poor co ...
The English word house derives directly from the Old English Hus meaning "dwelling, shelter, home, house," which in turn derives from Proto-Germanic Khusan (reconstructed by etymological analysis) whi ...
For general context, see Roman architecture.Floor mosaics: Camino de Albalate, Calanda, SpainBy the first century BC, the "classic" villa took many architectural forms, with many examples employing at ...
Before the development of aqueduct technology, Romans, like most of their contemporaries in the ancient world, relied on local water sources such as springs and streams, supplemented by groundwater fr ...
Thermae, balneae, balineae, balneum and balineum may all translated as "bath" or "baths", though Latin sources may distinguish among these terms.Balneum or balineum, derived from the Greek βαλαν ...
The word gymnasium is the latinisation of the Greek noun γυμν?σιον (gymnasion), "gymnastic school", in pl. "bodily exercises" and generally "school" which in turn is derived from the common G ...
Roman theatres were built in all areas of the empire from medieval-day Spain, to the Middle East. Because of the Romans' ability to influence local architecture, we see numerous theatres around the wo ...
