Epigraphical evidence show that a Jewish community had existed in Benevento since the fifth century at least. At the 10th century, Jewish traveller Ahimaaz ben Paltiel describes in his chronicle the J ...
Benevento in antiquity Benevento, as Maleventum, one of the chief cities of Samnium, and at a later period one of the most important cities of southern Italy, was situated on the Via Appia at a distan ...
Jews began to live in Ancona in 967 A.D. In 1270, Jewish resident of Ancona, Jacob of Ancona travelled to China, four years before Marco Polo and documented his impressions in a book called "The City ...
Ancona was founded by Greek settlers from Syracuse about 387 BC, who gave it its name: Ancona is a very slightly modified transliteration of the Greek Αγκων, meaning "elbow"; the harbour to the e ...
The present high altars and the apses were commissioned by Pope Clement XI (1700–1721) and designed by Alessandro Specchi. In the apse, a copy of a Byzantine icon of the Madonna is enshrined. The ori ...
Pantheon is derived from the Ancient Greek "Pantheion" (Π?νθειον) meaning "of, relating to, or common to all the gods": (Pan /"Παν" meaning "all" + Theion / "θειον"= meaning "gods"). C ...
Apollodorus was a favourite of Trajan, for whom he constructed Trajan's Bridge over the Danube for the 105-106 campaign in Dacia.He also designed the Forum Trajanum and Trajan's Column within the city ...
It is assumed that the column drums were lifted by cranes into their place. Ancient sources, as well as a substantial body of archaeological evidence, prove that Roman engineers were capable of raisin ...
A continuous frieze winds up around the tower from base to capital, with the narrative band expanding from about 1 metre at the base of the column to 1.2 metres at the top, allowing for easier viewing ...
Trajan's Market was probably built in 100-110 AD by Apollodorus of Damascus, an architect who always followed Trajan in his adventures and to whom Trajan entrusted the planning of his Forum, and inaug ...
The Forum was built from a vast stoa-lined piazza measuring 200 x 120 m with exedrae on two sides. The main entrance to the forum is on the southern side, a triumphal arch surmounted by a statue of Tr ...
Located between the Sinai Peninsula and the Arabian Peninsula, its northern neighbour was the kingdom of Judea, and its south western neighbour was Ptolemaic Egypt. Its capital was the city of Petra i ...
Following his subjugation, Decebalus complied with Rome for a time, but was soon inciting revolt among tribes against them.The War At the start of the war, Trajan built another bridge over the Danube ...
According to Lactantius, emperor Galerius (c. 260 – April or May 311) affirmed his Dacian identity and avowed himself the enemy of the Roman name once made emperor, even proposing that the empire sho ...
Classical era Main article: Dacians § Name and etymologyThe Dacians are first mentioned in the writings of the Ancient Greeks, in Herodotus (Histories Book IV XCIII: " the noblest as well as the most ...
