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AncientRome

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Image ID :	Roma Plan
View/Description :	Plan Roms im Altertum / Map of Rome during Antiquity
Image Creator :
Image Date :
Image Source :	G. Droysens Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas (1886) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roma_Plan.jpg
Notes :
Rights Owner :	Public Domain
URL to larger image :	http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Roma_Plan.jpg

Work ID :

AncientRome

Title :

Map of Ancient Rome

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Date (of work) :

Location/Site :

Rome, Italy

Europe [TGN]

Italy [TGN]

Lazio [TGN]

Roma [TGN]

Rome [TGN]

GIS Coordinates :

Lat: 41 53 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 41.8833 decimal degrees
Long: 012 30 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 12.5000 decimal degrees

[TGN]

Nineteenth-century historic map of ancient Rome with many buildings and sites marked and the seven hills of Rome identified and located. The legend and notes on the map are in German.

Maps [AAT]

Roman

Imperial

Subject :

City

Cities [AAT]

City Planning

Urban

Urban planning [AAT]

Capital

Capital cities [AAT]

Relation :

Language :

Text Reference :

http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=rome&place=&nation=&prev_page=1&english=Y&subjectid=7000874

Keywords :

Amphitheater, Colosseum, Baths of Caracalla, Termae Caracallae, Pantheon, Circus Maximus, Termae Diocletiani, Baths of Diocletian, Mausoleum of Augustus, Tiber, Seven Hills

Notes :

On 7 hills over swampy Tiber river; Etruscan city by 8th cen. BC, their kings expelled & republic established by 500 BC; soon ruled vast area & was center of Empire from 31 BC; declined when capital moved to Constantinople in AD 330; revived under popes.

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