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    Aelia Capitolina (English: /ˈiːliə ˌkæpɪtəˈlaɪnə/ EE-lee-ə KAP-it-ə-LY-nə; full name in Latin: Colonia Aelia Capitolina [kɔˈloːni.a ˈae̯li.a kapɪtoːˈliːna])...
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    most important temple in Ancient Rome, located on the Capitoline Hill. It was surrounded by the Area Capitolina, a precinct where numerous shrines, altars...
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    Rome. As the patron goddess of Rome and the Roman Empire, Juno was called Regina ("Queen") and was a member of the Capitoline Triad (Juno Capitolina)...
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    Bar Kokhba revolt (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia without a Wikisource reference)
    economic life; constructed the colony of Aelia Capitolina over the destroyed city of Jerusalem; and erected a place of worship for Jupiter on Jerusalem's...
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    population remains a matter of debate. Hadrian replaced the province's name by renaming it Syria Palaestina. He renamed Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina after himself...
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    depopulating Judea's countryside. Jerusalem was rebuilt as a Roman colony (Aelia Capitolina), and the province of Judea was renamed Syria Palaestina. Jews...
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    of Jerusalem, which the Romans rebuilt into the pagan colony of Aelia Capitolina, and the province of Judaea was renamed Syria Palaestina. Collectively...
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    Antonia Fortress (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia without a Wikisource reference)
    Grand et le forum oriental d'Aelia Capitolina". Harvard Theological Review (in French). 64 (2–3). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press: 135–167...
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    "Rolling the Dice in Aelia Capitolina: On the Discovery of Gaming Pieces beneath Wilson's Arch and Their Function within a Theatre-Like Structure". Israel...
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    Within a few months, the First Council of Nicaea (first worldwide Christian council) confirms status of Aelia Capitolina as a patriarchate. A significant...
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  • men of eastern descent to become consul at Rome. Balbilla's parents were distant cousins. Claudia Capitolina's paternal grandmother was Aka II of Commagene...
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  • century, Roman Emperor Hadrian rebuilt Jerusalem as a Pagan city and renamed it Aelia Capitolina, erecting statues of Jupiter and himself on the site...
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  • They lost their citizenship which they could regain if they returned to Rome. After 133 BC tribunes introduced reforms to support the urban poor to become...
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    Kokhba led a rebellion against Hadrian, a revolt connected with the renaming of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina. After four years of devastating warfare...
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    Hadrian (2nd century), when in the military colony of Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), had constructed a temple to Aphrodite on the site of the crucifixion of...
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    Jerusalem, and the city was later rebuilt as the Roman colony of Aelia Capitolina, in which Jews were forbidden to live. According to the Jewish-Roman historian...
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    model for his provincial temples. When Hadrian built Aelia Capitolina on the site of Jerusalem, a temple to Jupiter Capitolinus was erected in the place of...
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    war had ended, the Roman emperor Hadrian barred Jews from entering Ælia Capitolina, the pagan city he had built on the ruins of Jewish Jerusalem. The name...
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    of both Temples. Aelia Capitolina of the Late Roman period was a Roman colony, with all the typical institutions and symbols - a forum, and temples to...
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    Roman commerce (category Economy of ancient Rome)
    trade).[citation needed] A standard amphora, the amphora capitolina, was kept in the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, so that others could...
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    Jews (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia without a Wikisource reference)
    turned into a Roman colony with the official name Colonia Aelia Capitolina (Aelia after Hadrian's family name: P. Aelius Hadrianus; Capitolina after Jupiter...
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    a Butterfly (1620), private collection Italianate River Landscape, private collection Landscape with Shepherds and Sheep, Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome...
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    Jesus (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    ruins of Jerusalem had been turned into the Roman settlement of Aelia Capitolina, no Jews were allowed to set foot in it. Polarized conclusions regarding...
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    five major Patriarchs of the empire: Constantinople, Rome, Alexandria, Antioch and Aelia Capitolina. Horn & Phenix 2008, p. lxxxviii: Council of Chalcedon...
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    Timeline of the name Palestine (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Palestine, has nothing but the name of a colony. ...In Palestine there are two colonies, those of Caesarea and Aelia Capitolina; but neither of these enjoy Italian...
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    founded a new city in place of Herodian Jerusalem next to the military camp. He honored the city with the status of a colony and named it Aelia Capitolina. Goodman...
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    displaced or sold into slavery. Jerusalem was rebuilt as a Roman colony under the name of Aelia Capitolina, and the province of Judea was renamed Syria Palaestina...
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    gens Claudia (Latin: [ˈklau̯dɪ.a]), sometimes written Clodia, was one of the most prominent patrician houses at ancient Rome. The gens traced its origin...
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  • (1578–1644), 3 paintings : Competition on the Capitoline Hill, Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome (url) Nicolas Antoine Taunay (1755–1830), 2 paintings : Country Landscape...
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  • Aelia Capitolina . 142–144? Marcion of Sinope: bishop according to Catholic Encyclopedia, goes to Rome, possibly to buy the bishopric of Rome, upon rejection...
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