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Roman bridge of San Vito
Roman bridge of San Vito (Ponte romano di San Vito, Pontaccio): ruined Roman bridge near Rimini, Italy, carrying the Via Emilia over the Uso river, probably Augustan, tied to the Rubicon question and redeveloped in 2022.
Roman bridge, Mérida
Roman bridge, Mérida (Puente Romano sobre el Guadiana): Augustan-era Roman bridge at Augusta Emerita, Spain; 792 m, 60 semicircular arches, granite ashlar over concrete, pedestrian since 1993, UNESCO-listed.
Roman bridge, Pietralunga di Paternò
Roman bridge, Pietralunga di Paternò (Ponte romano di Pietralunga): ruined two-arched Roman lava-stone bridge over the Simeto at Paternò, Catania, Sicily; about 23 m long, 4.15 m wide, on the Catania-Centuripe-Enna road.
Roman Bridge: Le Vistre de la Fontaine Palaeochannel
Roman Bridge: Le Vistre de la Fontaine Palaeochannel, excavated Roman bridge site south of Nîmes, France, spanning a former channel of the karstic Vistre de la Fontaine; piers enrocked against scour, built after about 10–15 AD, destroyed by meandering around the 5th century AD, with Roman lead contamination near 1,000 ppm in the sediments.
Roman Britain
Roman Britain (Britannia), AD 43 to about 410: the Roman province of Britain under Claudius's invasion, with Londinium as capital, Hadrian's Wall frontier, towns, villas, and economic growth, ending in a 5th-century collapse.
Roman Bürki
Roman Bürki, Swiss goalkeeper born 1990 in Münsingen; ex-Borussia Dortmund (232 games, DFB-Pokal 2017, 2021) and SC Freiburg; inaugural captain and 2023 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year at St. Louis CITY SC.
Roman Busargin
Roman Busargin is a Russian politician of the United Russia party serving as Governor of Saratov Oblast, elected in 2022, with a focus on investment and infrastructure.
Roman calendar
The Roman calendar is the pre-Julian timekeeping system of ancient Rome: a legendary 10-month Romulan year, Numa's 355-day lunar Republican calendar with Mercedonius intercalation, kalends-nones-ides day reckoning, and the 445-day year of confusion before the Julian reform of 45 BC.
Roman Camp (United Kingdom)
Roman camps in the United Kingdom: entrenched temporary and marching enclosures (castra) built by the Roman army in Britain, their construction, sizes, classical models, and identification from cropmarks and lidar.
Roman camp, Seldom Seen
Roman camp, Seldom Seen (Roman camp, 290m north west of Seldom Seen) is a scheduled Roman temporary camp in Haydon, Northumberland, measuring about 89 by 77 m, beside the Stanegate road south of Hadrian's Wall.
Roman Candle (album)
Roman Candle (1994) is Elliott Smith's debut album, released on Cavity Search. Recorded on 4-track in a Portland basement, nine sparse acoustic songs including "Condor Ave" and "No Name #1" through "No Name #4".
Roman Catholic (term)
"Roman Catholic" is an English term for a Christian in communion with the bishop of Rome, first recorded in 1581 and rarely used in the Church's own documents.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa (Arquidiocese de Goa) is the Latin-rite Catholic metropolitan see at Goa on India's west coast, erected as a diocese in 1533.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, formerly the Apostolic Vicariate of Sydney, is the metropolitan archdiocese of Sydney, Australia, and the primatial see of the Australian Catholic Church.
Roman Catholic Church in Mexico
The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico (Iglesia Católica en México) is the national branch of the Catholic Church, established with the Spanish Conquest in the sixteenth century.
Roman cement
Roman cement is a natural hydraulic cement, patented by James Parker in England in 1796 and widely used for nineteenth-century stucco and renders despite its name; it is now used to repair historic façades.
Roman censor
The Roman censor was a magistracy of the Roman Republic that conducted the census and regulated public morals. They also controlled the composition of the Senate.
Roman CGI
Roman CGI, the Coronagraph Instrument, is a NASA visible-light coronagraph on the Roman Space Telescope, built by JPL to demonstrate starlight suppression and exoplanet imaging, launched in 2026.
Roman Charity
Roman Charity, also called Caritas Romana or Cimon and Pero, is the story of Pero breastfeeding her imprisoned father Cimon, leading his authorities to pardon him.
Roman Chekushov
Roman Chekushov is a Russian politician serving as State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, appointed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin after directing the ministry's foreign trade department.
Roman citizenship
Roman citizenship (civitas Romana), the privileged legal status of Roman law, held by a minority until Caracalla's Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 CE granted it to nearly all free inhabitants; paths included birth, imperial grants, manumission, and 25 years of military service.
Roman city gate, Mainz
Roman city gate, Mainz (Römertor): late Roman gate of Mogontiacum built around 360/370 AD from spolia of the abandoned legion camp on the Kästrich, discovered in 1985, the only Roman city gate found in Mainz.
Roman civil amphitheater at Carnuntum
Roman civil amphitheater at Carnuntum (Amphitheater II, Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria): 2nd-century AD municipal arena outside the city walls, seating about 13,000, arena 68 x 52 m, funded by decurio Caius Domitius Zmaragdus, excavated 1923-1930, with a gladiator school found by radar in 2011.
Roman commerce
Roman commerce, also called Roman trade or Ancient Roman trade, was the long-distance exchange of goods across the Mediterranean world and beyond its frontiers, from the late Republic through late antiquity.
Roman concrete
Roman concrete (opus caementicium): lime-and-volcanic-ash building material with coarse caementa aggregates, documented by Vitruvius, used for the Pantheon dome and Roman harbors; distinct from Portland cement by pozzolanic C-A-S-H chemistry and self-healing lime clasts.
Roman conquest of Britain
Roman conquest of Britain: Claudius's AD 43 invasion under Aulus Plautius with about 40,000 troops, following Caesar's 55 and 54 BC expeditions; four decades of campaigning, Boudica's revolt, and the founding of Britannia.
Roman consul
Roman consul (consul, Greek hypatos): one of two annually elected chief magistrates of the Roman Republic holding imperium for civil and military command; top of the cursus honorum, eponym of the year, surviving as an honor until Justinian's 6th century.
Roman Coppola
Roman Coppola (Roman François Coppola, born 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine) is an American filmmaker, son of Francis Ford Coppola; president of American Zoetrope, founder of The Directors Bureau, co-writer of Moonrise Kingdom, director of CQ.
Roman Curia
The Roman Curia, also known as the Curia Romana, is the body of institutions assisting the pope in governing the Catholic Church, reformed by Praedicate Evangelium in 2022.
Roman currency
Roman currency: the coinage system of the Roman Republic and Empire, built on the as, sestertius, denarius, and aureus, with provincial mints, gradual debasement, and the Diocletianic and Constantinian reforms culminating in the gold solidus.