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Roman Mausoleum of Villa Gordiani
Roman Mausoleum of Villa Gordiani (Mausoleo dei Gordiani, Tor de' Schiavi): two-story circular brick funerary building, 17.72 m tall, 4th century AD, on the Via Prenestina in Rome, beside a circiform early Christian basilica about 67 m long.
Roman Messer
Roman Messer is a Russian trance DJ, producer, and label owner, best known as founder of Suanda Music; his five albums have over 36 million Spotify streams.
Roman Military Palace
Roman Military Palace (Palace of the Dux Ripae, Roman Palace) at Dura-Europos, Syria: a Roman army residence built early 3rd century AD in the northern military camp, overlooking the Euphrates, excavated 1935-1936.
Roman military personal equipment
Roman military personal equipment: the clothing, weapons, and armor of the individual Roman soldier, from the citizen militia's self-supplied hoplite kit to the Marian legionary's pilum, gladius, scutum, and lorica segmentata, hamata, or squamata armor, and its late Roman replacement by the spatha and field-army equipment.
Roman Missal
The Roman Missal, in Latin Missale Romanum, is the liturgical book of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church containing the prayers and rubrics for celebrating Mass.
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier
A UNESCO World Heritage site in Trier, Germany, inscribed in 1986, comprising nine Roman and medieval monuments, including the Porta Nigra and the Cathedral of St Peter.
Roman mythology
Roman mythology: the myths of ancient Rome's gods and founders, from native numina like Janus and Vesta through Greek-identified Jupiter, Mars, and Venus. Key stories: Romulus and Remus, the Aeneid, Ovid's Fasti; defined by ritual practice over belief.
Roman naming conventions
Roman naming conventions: the tria nomina system of praenomen, nomen gentilicium, and cognomen used by Roman citizens, its Etruscan-derived family name, status-marking formulas for slaves and freedmen, and its evolution to single late antique names.
Roman numerals
Roman numerals are a numeric notation in which the letters I, V, X, L, C, D, and M stand for fixed values and are added together.
Roman occupation of Sardinia (238 BC)
The Roman occupation of Sardinia was the seizure of the island by the Roman Republic in 238 BC, during Carthage's Mercenary War, outside the treaty terms.
Roman Odeion at Corinth
Roman Odeion at Corinth: small roofed theatre in Ancient Corinth, Greece, built late 1st century AD, rebuilt in marble by Herodes Atticus around 175 AD, converted to an arena in 225 AD, destroyed by fire in the late 4th century.
Roman Odeum of Tauromenium
Roman Odeum of Tauromenium (Odeon di Taormina): small roofed Roman theatre in Taormina, Sicily, built against a 3rd-century BC Hellenistic temple; 11-row cavea, ~11 m orchestra; discovered 1892; date disputed, 2nd-3rd century AD.
Roman Palestine
Roman Palestine: the land of Israel under Roman rule from Pompey's 63 BCE conquest through Herod, direct rule from 6 CE, the revolts of 66–74 and 132–135 CE, and the renaming to Syria Palaestina.
Roman Pavlyuchenko (Роман Анатольевич Павлюченко)
Roman Pavlyuchenko (Роман Анатольевич Павлюченко), Russian striker; Euro 2008 semi-finalist with three goals; Spartak Moscow top scorer 2006-07; Tottenham 2008-2012, 41 goals in 113 games; retired 2022 at 40.
Roman people
The Roman people (Populus Romanus, SPQR) were the citizen community of the Roman state, expanded from the city of Rome through Italian enfranchisement after the Social War to Caracalla's 212 CE grant of citizenship to nearly all free inhabitants of the empire.
Roman picisan
Roman picisan is an Indonesian term for cheap, low-quality popular romance fiction, named after a ten-sen coin; the serialized romances flourished in Medan from the 1930s into the 1950s.
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski (Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański, born 1933) is a French-Polish film director of Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, and The Pianist; Holocaust survivor, Manson murder widower, and fugitive since his 1978 flight after a statutory rape plea.
Roman Polanski sexual abuse case
The Roman Polanski sexual abuse case is a 1977 California prosecution in which director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful intercourse with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer, then fled the United States in 1978.
Roman province
Roman province (Latin provincia): territory outside Italy governed by a Roman magistrate. Originally a magistrate's task, not a place; provinces funded the state from 167 BC until Diocletian's provincial doubling and the diocese-prefecture system.
Roman Province of Byacena
Byzacena (Byzacium, Valeria Byzacena), Roman province in the Sahel of modern Tunisia between the gulfs of Hammamet and Gabes; capital Hadrumetum, made a separate province by Diocletian between 294 and 305, famed for grain and olive oil.
Roman Reigns
Roman Reigns (Leati Joseph Anoa'i, born 1985) is an American WWE wrestler of the Anoa'i family, former Shield member, Tribal Chief of the Bloodline, and holder of the record 1,316-day Universal/Undisputed title reign ended by Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 40.
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic (res publica) was Rome's state from the expulsion of its kings in 509 BCE to the fall of the republican system by 27 BCE, governed by annual consuls, tribunes with veto power, assemblies, and the Senate.
Roman Rite
The Roman Rite, also called the Roman Liturgy, is the Catholic manner of celebrating Mass, sacraments, and the Divine Office as used in the Diocese of Rome.
Roman Road in Sutton Park
Ryknild Street (Ryknield Street) Roman road, a 2.6 km first-century AD military route linking Wall and Metchley forts, survives as a gravel agger with ditches in Sutton Park, Birmingham, within scheduled monument 1020420.
Roman roads
Roman roads were the paved routes built by the Roman state from 312 BCE, when the Via Appia linked Rome to Capua, eventually spanning nearly 300,000 kilometers.
Roman Romaniuk
Roman Romaniuk is a Ukrainian journalist and public official, born in Lutsk, who has served as Acting Head of the Volyn Oblast State Administration since 2026 after writing on Ukrainian weapons.
Roman Romanyuk
Roman Romanyuk, born 1985, is a Ukrainian politician and former deputy head of the Volyn Oblast Military Administration, appointed acting head of the Volyn Oblast State Administration by presidential decree in January 2026.
Roman Rurua
Roman Rurua (რომან რურუა), born 1942 in Mukhurcha, Georgia, is a Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler: 1968 Olympic featherweight gold, 1964 silver, four straight world titles 1966-1970, FILA Hall of Fame 2010.
Roman Saini
Roman Saini is an Indian physician and former IAS officer who co-founded Unacademy, one of India's largest ed-tech companies, after clearing the AIIMS entrance at 16.
Roman salute
The Roman salute (saluto romano) is the raised right arm, palm down, claimed as ancient Roman but actually a modern invention traced to David's 1784 Oath of the Horatii and adopted by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany; banned in Germany, conditionally illegal in Italy.