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Roman villa
Roman villa: rural estate center combining elite residence (pars urbana) and farm (pars rustica), a market-oriented farming institution spread across the western Roman Empire, later revived by Renaissance architects like Palladio.
Roman villa at Artena
The Roman villa at Artena is an early imperial villa rustica excavated on the Piano della Civita, about 2 km south of Artena, near Rome.
Roman villa at Can Terrés
Roman villa at Can Terrés (Can Terrers), La Garriga, Vallès Oriental, Catalonia: rural Roman villa occupied from the mid 1st century BC to beyond the 5th century AD, about 3,500-5,000 m², with well-preserved 1st-century baths, declared BCIN archaeological zone in 2001.
Roman Villa at El Faro (Torrox)
Roman Villa at El Faro (Villa romana de El Faro), Torrox, Málaga: coastal Roman complex, proposed as the mansio Caviclum of the Antonine Itinerary, with mosaic villa, baths, garum salting factory, kilns, and necropolis, 1st-4th century AD, BIC since 2007.
Roman Villa at Għajn Tuffieħa, Malta
Roman Villa at Għajn Tuffieħa, Malta, also called the Għajn Tuffieħa Roman Baths: a late 1st–early 2nd century AD bathing complex near Mġarr, found in 1929, excavated by Temi Zammit, backfilled in 2019 and 2021.
Roman villa at Maasbracht
Roman villa at Maasbracht (villa Maasbracht-Steenakker), a Roman villa rustica on the Meuse in Limburg, Netherlands; excavated 1982; famous for frescoes from its stone cellar; abandoned around 260 CE.
Roman villa at Mill End (United Kingdom)
Roman villa at Mill End, Hambleden, Buckinghamshire: unexcavated Romano-British winged corridor house on the Thames bank, known from parchmarks since 1921, scheduled monument 1014601, near the larger Yewden villa 600m north.
Roman villa at Positano
The Roman villa at Positano is a luxury maritime villa buried beneath the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Positano, Italy, by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Roman villa near Setia
Roman villa near Setia: Republican-period villa (1st century BC, cryptoporticus, opus reticulatum) below ancient Setia, modern Sezze, Lazio, with second-century AD renovations; part of the villa-rich, wine-producing ager setinus.
Roman villa of Aia Nova
Roman villa of Aia Nova (Villa di Aia Nuova), a mid-1st-century BC villa rustica at Ripacci, Scansano, Tuscany, on the Albegna river; attributed to Publius Anilius from tile stamps, excavated 1987-1990, with baths and brick-commesso floors shown in the Scansano museum.
Roman villa, via Michelangelo Tilli
Roman villa, via Michelangelo Tilli (Villa di via Michelangelo Tilli): a late republican Roman villa in Rome's Ponte Mammolo quarter, near the Aniene river, with visible tufa opus quadratum walls and a tunnel cistern, occupied until the fourth century AD.
Roman Vishniac
Roman Vishniac (1897–1990) was a Russian-born American photographer and biologist, best known for photographs of Jewish communities in eastern Europe before the Holocaust and for pioneering photomicroscopy.
Roman Vlasov
Roman Vlasov (Роман Власов), Russian Greco-Roman wrestler born 1990 in Novosibirsk; two-time Olympic champion (2012, 2016) and three-time world champion (2011, 2015, 2021) at 74-77 kg, coached by Viktor Kuznetsov.
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (Роман фон Унгерн-Штернберг)
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (Роман фон Унгерн-Штернберг, 1885/1886–1921), the Baltic German "Mad Baron," was a tsarist cavalry officer and White warlord who seized Urga in February 1921, restored the Bogd Khan, ruled Mongolia brutally, and was captured and executed by the Red Army in September 1921.
Roman W. DeSanctis
Roman W. DeSanctis (1930–2024) was an American cardiologist who spent 59 years at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, founding its first coronary care unit and directing Clinical Cardiology.
Roman Walls of Lugo
Roman Walls of Lugo (Muralla romana de Lugo), intact 3rd-4th century AD Roman city wall circuit, 2,117 m long with 85 towers and 10 gates, enclosing Lugo's historic center in Galicia, Spain; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
Roman Warm Period
The Roman Warm Period, also called the Roman Climate Optimum, was a warm, wet, stable Mediterranean climate phase from about 200 BCE to 150 CE.
Roman watch
A Roman watch (Latin vigilia, plural vigiliae) was one of the four divisions of the night in Roman timekeeping, each lasting three night-hours and marking one turn of sentry duty.
Roman Weidenfeller
Roman Weidenfeller, German goalkeeper born 1980 in Diez; Borussia Dortmund 2002-2018, 453 competitive games, 148 clean sheets, Bundesliga titles 2011/2012, DFB-Pokal 2012/2017, 2014 World Cup winner, later BVB brand ambassador.
Roman Yampolskiy
Roman Yampolskiy, born 1979 in Riga, Latvia, is a computer scientist at the University of Louisville known for coining "AI safety" and arguing superintelligent AI cannot be controlled.
Roman Yaremchuk
Roman Yaremchuk (Яремчук Роман Олегович) is a Ukrainian center-forward, born in 1995 in Lviv, who has scored 16 goals in 53 matches for Ukraine since 2018.
Román Zaragoza
Román Zaragoza (born 1996, New York City) is an American actor, director, and producer of Akimel O'otham, Mexican, Japanese, and Taiwanese descent, known for Sasappis on CBS's Ghosts and as the voice of Sokka in Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026).
Roman Zubarev
Roman A. Zubarev is a chemist and professor of medical proteomics at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, known as a pioneer of electron capture dissociation, a mass spectrometry fragmentation method.
Roman-fleuve
A roman-fleuve (French for river-novel) is a very long novel in several volumes following recurring characters across generations, a term Romain Rolland coined in 1911 for his Jean-Christophe.
Roman-Parthian War of 58-63
The Roman-Parthian War of 58-63 (جنگ روم و اشکانیان) was fought between Rome and Parthia over the Armenian throne, ending in the Treaty of Rhandeia in 63.
Roman–Carthaginian treaty (279 BC)
The Roman–Carthaginian treaty of 279 BC was the third treaty between Rome and Carthage recorded by Polybius, a mutual-assistance pact concluded during Pyrrhus of Epirus's campaign in Italy and Sicily.
Roman–Carthaginian treaty (306 BC)
The Roman–Carthaginian treaty of 306 BC, also called the third treaty between Rome and Carthage, is a renewal reported by Livy in a single sentence, with no text preserved.
Roman–Carthaginian treaty (348 BC)
The Roman–Carthaginian treaty of 348 BC was the second of the Rome–Carthage treaties recorded by Polybius, renewing the first and adjusting the two states' commercial spheres in the western Mediterranean.
Roman–Carthaginian treaty (509 BC)
The Roman–Carthaginian treaty of 509 BC, the earliest recorded between Rome and Carthage, restricted Roman trade and navigation in Carthaginian waters and is preserved in Polybius' Histories.
Roman–Etruscan Wars
Roman–Etruscan Wars: conflicts between Rome and the Etruscan city-states, culminating in Veii's capture in 396 BC after a ten-year siege under Camillus, defeat of Etruscan-Gaul coalitions at Sentinum (295) and Lake Vadimo (283), and Roman citizenship for the Etruscans after the Social War.