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Acozac

Acozac (Ixtapaluca Viejo) is an Aztec-era archaeological zone on Cerro de Moctezuma, Ixtapaluca, Estado de México; Late Postclassic Acolhua city, Codex Xólotl Tlazallan-Tlallanoztoc, circular Ehécatl temple, protected since 1993.

Acquario di Cattolica

Acquario di Cattolica, or Cattolica Aquarium, is a public aquarium in Cattolica on the Riviera Romagna coast of Italy, described as the second largest in Italy.

Acropolis

The Acropolis of Athens, also called the Athenian Acropolis, is the citadel hill and sanctuary of Athena in central Athens, with the Parthenon, Propylaia, Erechtheion, and Temple of Athena Nike built 447–406 BC; a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987.

Acropolis of Athens

The Acropolis of Athens, citadel and sanctuary of Athena, holds the Parthenon, Propylaia, Erechtheion, and Temple of Athena Nike built under Perikles in the 5th century BC; a UNESCO site since 1987 under restoration since 1975.

Acropolis of Cumae

Acropolis of Cumae (Cuma): fortified trachyte hill of the first Greek colony on mainland Italy, founded by Euboeans c. 750 BC; holds the Temple of Apollo, Temple of Jupiter, Sibyl's Cave, and a Byzantine castrum destroyed in 1205/1207.

Action Park

Action Park (1978-1996) was Gene Mulvihill's notoriously dangerous amusement park in Vernon, New Jersey, nicknamed Class Action Park; six deaths, the 1985 Cannonball Loop slide, later Mountain Creek Waterpark.

Actium

Actium (Ἄκτιον), promontory at the Ambracian Gulf entrance, western Greece, with an ancient Apollo sanctuary; site of the naval battle of 2 September 31 BC where Octavian and Agrippa defeated Antony and Cleopatra, founding Nicopolis nearby.

Active Leisure Park 0.67

Парк актыўнага адпачынку «0,67» (Active Leisure Park 0.67, 067.by) is an outdoor recreation park 4 km from Minsk's MKAD on the Slutsk highway, offering paintball, laser tag, rope courses, quests, and event rentals.

Acton Scott

Acton Scott: Roman villa site near Church Stretton, Shropshire, discovered in 1817 during road works and excavated in July 1844 by Frances Stackhouse Acton; remains lie in the grounds of Acton Scott Hall.

Acumincum

Acumincum was a Roman auxiliary fort on the Danube frontier in Pannonia Inferior, on Gradina hill above Stari Slankamen in Vojvodina, Serbia, built on a Celtic settlement.

Ad Acroceraunia

Ad Acroceraunia, also Ocrocenaurio, was a Roman road station near Llogara Pass, Albania, on the Aulona–Phoenice coastal route, 33 miles from Aulona, attested in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana.

Ad Ammonem

Ad Ammonem (Ad Amonem, Adamonem) was a Roman road station on the Tripolitanian coastal road, 16 Roman miles west of Sabratha, shown in the Tabula Peutingeriana and identified with Mellita in modern Libya.

Ad Aquas (Italy)

Ad Aquas, a Roman mansio with thermal baths on the Via Salaria near Asculum, Italy, identified with Santa Maria near Acquasanta Terme; attested on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Asclopiceno and Surpicano.

Ad Aquas Herculis

Ad Aquas Herculis, also Aquae Herculis, a Roman road station and thermal settlement in Numidia on the Tabula Peutingeriana (3C1), identified with Hammam Sidi el Hadj, Algeria, on the Lambaesis to Ad Maiores road.

Ad Aquas Salvias

Ad Aquas Salvias (Acque Salvie, Aquae Salviae), ancient site on the Via Laurentina about 4 km outside Rome at today's Tre Fontane Abbey; traditional site of Saint Paul's beheading in AD 67 with three miraculous springs, a monastery from the sixth century, Cistercian from 1140.

Ad Bivium

Ad Bivium, also recorded as Ad Birium, was an ancient road station in Latium where the Via Latina and Via Labicana meet, near modern Valmontone southeast of Rome.

Ad Columnam

Ad Columnam (Columna Regia), a Roman road station on the Calabrian shore of the Strait of Messina north of Reggio di Calabria, the traiectum Siciliae ferry point on the via Popilia, its exact site still unconfirmed.

Ad Decimum (Tunisia)

Ad Decimum, a Roman road station ten miles from Carthage in modern Tunisia, site of the Byzantine victory of 13 September 533 where Belisarius defeated Gelimer's Vandals.

Ad Dianam (Croatia)

Ad Dianam (Addiana, Dianion) was a Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana at the west tip of Marjan peninsula in Split, Croatia, named for a temple of Diana, with nearby necropolis finds.

Ad Duos Pontes

Ad Duos Pontes ("at the two bridges"), a Roman mansio on Via XX Per Loca Maritima in the Antonine Itinerary, Galicia, Spain; long identified with Pontevedra, now usually placed near Noia.

Ad Ficum

Ad Ficum, name of two Roman African stations: one on the Greater Syrte in Africa Proconsularis on the Tabula Peutingeriana near Buerat el-Hsun, the other in Mauretania near Igilgilis, a 5th-century bishopric.

Ad Fines (Switzerland)

Ad Fines (Pfyn), late Roman fort in Thurgau, Switzerland, at the provincial border between Maxima Sequanorum and Raetia; built around 294 AD under Diocletian, abandoned after about 400 AD, name origin of Pfyn.

Ad Flexum (Italy)

Ad Flexum (Flexon), a Roman mansio on the Via Latina between Casinum and Venafrum at the 96th milestone, in San Pietro Infine, Caserta, Italy; located at Santa Maria del Piano since 1980s finds.

Ad Fluvium Angitulam

Ad Fluvium Angitulam, also Annicia (Tabula Peutingeriana), was a Roman road station in Bruttii, Calabria, at the crossing of the river Angitola near Francavilla Angitola, listed in the Antonine Itinerary 106.1 and Barrington Atlas 46 D4.

Ad Gallinas Albas

Ad Gallinas Albas, meaning "to the white hens," was the ancient name of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta near Rome, where the Augustus of Prima Porta statue was found.

Ad Herculem (Serbia)

Ad Herculem, Late Roman auxiliary fort (castra Herculis also proposed) at Prosjanice, Čortanovci, Vojvodina, on the Danube limes; built late 3rd–4th century, 100 x 70 m with 13 m circular towers, burned in a barbarian attack before 400 and never rebuilt.

Ad Horrea

Ad Horrea, a Roman road station in Gallia Narbonensis on the Via Aurelia between Antipolis and Forum Iulii, listed in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana; named for storehouses, site uncertain (La Napoule, Cannes, Grasse, or Auribeau).

Ad Iovem

Ad Iovem ("at Jupiter's"), an ancient road station in Roman Gaul recorded at Barrington Atlas 25 G2 (France), catalogued by Pleiades as a Late Antique station and tentatively identified with Léguevin near Toulouse.

Ad Latus

Ad Latus (Alisca ad latus, Castra Alisca Ad Latus), Roman auxiliary cohort fort on the Pannonian Danube limes at Őcsény-Szigetpuszta, Hungary; about 158 x 193 m, early 2nd century AD, garrisoned by cohors I Noricorum.

Ad Letoce

Ad Letoce, a Roman mutatio (horse-relay station) on the Valence-Orange road in Gaul, near Bollène, Vaucluse; recorded in the Itinerarium Burdigalense of AD 333 and the Peutinger Table, 13 miles from Orange.