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Apollo-Grannus-Tempel
The Apollo-Grannus-Tempel is a Roman temple in Faimingen, Bavaria, Germany, dedicated to the Gallo-Roman healing god Apollo Grannus, among the most important sanctuaries north of the Alps.
Apollo, Aedes
Apollo, Aedes (aedes Apollinis): the Temple of Apollo Medicus, later Apollo Sosianus, in Rome's Campus Martius, vowed 433 BC after a plague, rebuilt by C. Sosius, Rome's only Apollo temple until 28 BC.
Apollonas (quarry)
Apollonas quarry: ancient marble quarry on Naxos' northeastern tip, one of the island's two ancient quarries with Melanes, home of the unfinished 10.45 m Archaic Kouros of Apollonas and the Apollo sacred-precinct inscription.
Apollonia/Sozousa
Apollonia (Greek Ἀπολλωνία), later renamed Sozousa, was the seaport and naval base of the Greek city of Cyrene in eastern Libya, serving it for more than 1,200 years.
Apolobamba National Natural Area of Integrated Management Biosphere Reserve
Apolobamba National Natural Area of Integrated Management Biosphere Reserve (Área Natural de Manejo Integrado Nacional Apolobamba), a Bolivian Andes protected area and UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1977 near the Peru border, protecting vicuñas, Kallawaya culture, and high-Andean ecosystems from 800 to 6,200 m.
Apothecary garden
Apothecary garden: a medicinal-plant garden for training apothecaries, also called a physic garden. Descends from monastery herb gardens; the Chelsea Physic Garden (1673) is the leading example, with later ones in Moscow, Minsk, and Antwerp.
Appiaria
Appiaria (Apiaria), Roman castellum and town on the Danube in Moesia Inferior near Ryahovo, Bulgaria; garrisoned by ala I Gallorum Atectorigiana from about AD 76, a bishopric, last mentioned in 587 before the Avar conquest.
Appleton Roebuck
Appleton Roebuck is a linear village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, about 7 miles east of Tadcaster; population 907 (2019), Conservation Area, 12 Grade II listed buildings, and Nun Appleton Hall.
Appughar
Appughar (Appu Ghar) was India's first amusement park, opened at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, on 19 November 1984, named after the 1982 Asian Games elephant mascot Appu; it closed in 2008, with a Gurugram successor opening in 2014.
Apsley Marshes
Apsley Marshes: 880-hectare Tasmanian Ramsar wetland (site 255, listed 1982) at the Apsley River mouth, adjacent to Moulting Lagoon; important for black swan nesting, threatened bittern, grayling, and swamp everlasting.
Aq Chapar 1
Aq Chapar 1 (BALL-43), also Aq Chapur 1, a Kushan-period (1st c. BC-3rd c. AD) circular monumental building 130 m across in the Dashli Oasis, northern Afghanistan, surveyed in 1973 by Sarianidi.
Aqlam Foundation Club for Freedom of Press and Media
Aqlam Foundation Club for Freedom of Press and Media (أقلام) is a place in Al-Rusafa, Baghdad, Iraq, mapped in OpenStreetMap as a casino despite its press-freedom name; it lies near Biblioteca Pública, Abu Nuwas Park, and the Ministry of Communications.
Aqua Palm - الحديقة المائية أكوا بالم
Aqua Palm (الحديقة المائية أكوا بالم, Parc aquatique AquaPalm) is a water park on RN 83 in Biskra, Algeria, opened 2017 within Les Jardins des Zibans: 32 slides, wave pool, 10 pools, 641 m river, 11 ha, 4,000 daily visitors.
Aqua park (Armenia)
Aqua parks in Armenia, centered on Yerevan's Water World (Ջրաշխարհ, opened 2001, 2.5 ha outdoor) and the indoor Aquatek complex (2007) on Myasnikyan Avenue, regulated by AST GOST R 52604-2023 water-attraction safety standards.
Aqua Park Shinagawa (アクアハーク品川)
Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa (マクセル アクアパーク品川) is an indoor urban aquarium in Shinagawa Prince Hotel, Tokyo, opened 2005 as Epson Shinagawa Aqua Stadium, renamed 2015; about 350 species, 20,000 animals, dolphin shows, dwarf sawfish.
Aqua Viva (Italy)
Aqua Viva (Aqua uiua), Roman mutatio/mansio on the Via Flaminia in Etruria between Rubrae and Ocriculum near Monte Soracte, modern Acquaviva by the Tiber; attested in the Itinerarium Burdigalense and Tabula Peutingeriana; distinct from the Pannonian Aqua Viva near Ptuj.
Aqua World
Aqua World (Aqua World Ibaraki Oarai Aquarium, アクアワールド茨城県大洗水族館) is Ibaraki Prefecture's public aquarium in Oarai, Japan, opened 2002; 60 tanks, 580 species, 68,000 animals, and Japan's largest shark collection with first-in-Japan sand tiger shark breeding.
Aquae *Arnemetiae
Aquae Arnemetiae, the Roman name for Buxton, Derbyshire, was a small spa town built around thermal springs sacred to the goddess Arnemetia; one of only two Aquae towns in Roman Britain, with baths, a shrine, and 232 votive coins.
Aquae Apollinares Novae
Aquae Apollinares Novae: Roman thermal spa and sanctuary of Apollo at Vicarello on Lake Bracciano, north of Rome, twin of Aquae Apollinares Veteres (Stigliano); known from the Peutinger map, the 1852 Vicarello silver goblets, and its link to the Aqua Traiana.
Aquae Bormonis
Aquae Bormonis (Aquis Bormonis), a thermal station of Roman Gaul on the Tabula Peutingeriana, named for the healing god Borvo; identified with Bourbon-l'Archambault or Bourbon-Lancy, with Borvo-Damona votive inscriptions.
Aquae Caeretanae
Aquae Caeretanae was a Roman therapeutic spa near Caere, modern Cerveteri, its sulfur springs more frequented in antiquity than the city itself, rediscovered in 1986 near Sasso.
Aquae Calidae (Bulgaria)
Aquae Calidae (Therma, Thermopolis), ancient hot-springs city and spa in Burgas's Vetren district, Bulgaria; Thracian Sanctuary of the Three Nymphs, Roman thermae from Nero–Vespasian, Justinian fortress wall, medieval baths burned 1206, Ottoman bath of Suleiman the Magnificent, excavated since 2008.
Aquae Carpitanae
Aquae Carpitanae (Aquae Calidae Carpitanae) was a Roman thermal spa in Africa Proconsularis at modern Hammam Korbous on Cap Bon, Tunisia, attested by Livy, Strabo, and a 41 BC inscription, near the Julian colony Carpis.
Aquae Celenae
Aquae Celenae (Aquis Celenis) was a Roman thermal settlement in Gallaecia, capital of the Celeni, identified with Caldas de Reis, Pontevedra; a mansio on via XIX with Edovius inscriptions and 45-50 °C springs.
Aquae Convenarum
Aquae Convenarum, "waters of the Convenae", a Roman thermal station in Gaul on the Tabula Peutingeriana (Aquis Convenarum, 457,7), Barrington Atlas 25 F2, identified with Bagnères-de-Bigorre or Capvern in the French Pyrenees.
Aquae Dacicae
Aquae Dacicae (Aquis Dacicis), Roman thermal road station in Mauretania Tingitana, Morocco, not Dacia; identified with Sidi Moulay Yakoub near Volubilis; named for settled Dacians.
Aquae Flavianae
Aquae Flavianae (Hammam Essalihine, El Hamma) is a Roman thermal spa in Numidia, 6 km west of Khenchela, Algeria, built in 76 AD, restored in 208 by Legio III Augusta, with circular and rectangular pools still in use. Distinct from Aquae Flaviae, Chaves, Portugal.
Aquae Helveticae
Aquae Helveticae was a Roman vicus and mineral spa at modern Baden, Aargau, Switzerland, on 47 °C thermal springs by the Limmat. First named by Tacitus, burned by Legio XXI in 69 AD, rebuilt in stone, and linked to Vindonissa.
Aquae Iasae
Aquae Iasae, Roman thermal spa at Varaždinske Toplice, Croatia, in Pannonia Superior, 1st–4th century AD; 58 °C sulphur spring, 6,000 m² public complex, sanctuary, nymph cults, Constantine rebuilding.
Aquae Neri/*Neriomagus
Aquae Neri/Neriomagus, the ancient name of Néris-les-Bains (Allier, France), a Gallo-Roman vicus of the Bituriges Cubi famed for 53°C thermal springs, two Roman bath complexes, an amphitheater, and ongoing excavations.