Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma, Italian: [ˈroːma] ) is the capital city of Italy. It is also the capital of the Lazio region, the centre of the Metropolitan...
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supplementals) On 24 October 2017, Duncan published The Storm Before The Storm, a non-fiction work which explores Rome between 146 and 78 BC, the period predating...
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In modern historiography, ancient Rome encompasses the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC, the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman...
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Storm Over Ceylon (German: Das Todesauge von Ceylon, Italian: Tempesta su Ceylon) is a 1963 adventure film directed by Gerd Oswald and Giovanni Roccardi...
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Roman Empire (redirect from Imperial Rome)
The Roman Empire was the post-Republican state of ancient Rome. It is generally understood to mean the period and territory ruled by the Romans following...
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2023–24 European windstorm season (redirect from Storm Agnes)
European windstorm naming in Europe. The new season's storm names were announced on 1 September 2023. Storms that occur up until 31 August 2024 will be included...
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including Band of Brothers and The Gathering Storm. Tranter from the BBC has said this about the development of Rome: "It felt like something that could have...
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Imperial army lost any restraint when they easily succeeded in storming the walls of Rome the same day. Philibert of Châlon took command of the troops,...
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Fall of the Western Roman Empire (redirect from Fall of Rome)
Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a...
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The Sack of Rome on 24 August 410 AD was undertaken by the Visigoths led by their king, Alaric. At that time, Rome was no longer the administrative capital...
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(Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy. It was built on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus...
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5th century BC, Rome gained regional dominance in Latium. With the Punic Wars from 264 to 146 BC, ancient Rome gained dominance over the Western Mediterranean...
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Italy, serving Rome. It is the busiest airport in the country, the 9th busiest airport in Europe and the world's 46th-busiest airport with over 40.5 million...
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Romulus (redirect from Romulus, King of Rome)
the legendary founder and first king of Rome. Various traditions attribute the establishment of many of Rome's oldest legal, political, religious, and...
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Mark Antony (redirect from Mark Antony (Character of Rome))
Aemilius Lepidus marched over 6,000 troops into Rome on 16 March to restore order and intimidate the liberatores. Lepidus wanted to storm the Capitol, but Antony...
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The Arab raid against Rome took place in 846. Muslim raiders plundered the outskirts of the city of Rome, sacking the basilicas of Old St Peter's and St...
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Ben Kane (redirect from Hannibal Enemy Of Rome)
walked again in Italy, raising over £26,500. A documentary film was made about their walk, entitled The Road to Rome, with Ian McKellen providing voiceover...
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Latins. Tarquinius took the Latin town of Apiolae by storm and took great booty from there back to Rome. According to the Fasti Triumphales, the war occurred...
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Lays of Ancient Rome is an 1842 collection of narrative poems, or lays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Four of these recount heroic episodes from early...
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Roman Republic (redirect from Rise of Rome)
War of Actium. During this period, Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world. Roman...
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The Storm over the gentry was a major historiographical debate among scholars that took place in the 1940s and 1950s regarding the role of the gentry in...
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Gaius Marius (redirect from Marius of Rome)
(2017). The Storm before the Storm. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-5417-2403-7. Etcheto, Henri (2012). Les Scipions. Famille et pouvoir à Rome à l'époque...
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The March on Rome (Italian: Marcia su Roma) was an organized mass demonstration in October 1922 which resulted in Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party...
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Ancient Roman architecture (redirect from Architecture in ancient Rome)
that were popular in Rome. In Britain, a similar enthusiasm has seen the construction of thousands of neoclassical buildings over the last five centuries...
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2022–23 European windstorm season (redirect from Storm Philomena)
waves, high tides and storm surge flooded shores along Italy's coastline. Coastal flooding was reported in the provinces of Rome and Latina in the Lazio...
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Mediterranean expedition, the Vikings are recorded to have lost 40 ships to a storm. They returned to the Straits of Gibraltar and, at the coast of Medina-Sidonia...
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Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth. Turner saw parallels between Hannibal and Napoleon, and between the historic Punic War between Rome and Carthage...
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Hurricane Idalia (redirect from Tropical Storm Idalia (2023))
States, especially in North Florida, in late August 2023. The ninth named storm, third hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane...
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International Rome Film Fest is a film festival that takes place in Rome during the month of October. The name in Italian is Festa del Cinema di Roma. The Rome Film...
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Gulf War (redirect from Operation Desert Storm)
military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began with the aerial bombing campaign against Iraq on 17 January...
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