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    context of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in the year 70, with the Gospel of Mark placing the "abomination of desolation" into a speech...
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    Hampton (2007). Bella figura (2015). Hammerklavier (1997). Une désolation (1999). Desolation, trans. Carol Brown Janeway (2002). Adam Haberberg (2003). Nulle...
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  • A Desolation Called Peace is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to A Memory Called Empire, and the second novel...
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    Historical states Roman Kingdom 753–509 BC Roman Republic 509–27 BC Roman Empire 27 BC – 395 AD Western Roman Empire 286–476 Kingdom of Italy 476–493...
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  • Last Roman Emperor, also called Last World Emperor or Emperor of the Last Days, is a figure of medieval European legend, which developed as an aspect...
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    Roman Empire in 132 CE. Lasting until 135 or early 136, it was the third and final escalation of the Jewish–Roman wars. Like the First Jewish–Roman War...
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    Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) (category 70s in the Roman Empire)
    Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged Jerusalem, the center of Jewish rebel resistance in the Roman province...
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    exile for important persons in the early Roman empire. The extremity of its desolation was proverbial among Roman authors, such as Tacitus and Juvenal. It...
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    Roman Empire, in the 2nd century. Agrippin was the first named bishop, around 230 AD. The temporal importance of the city of Carthage in the Roman Empire...
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    the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire near the ancient town of Carrhae (present-day Harran, Turkey). An invading force of seven legions of Roman heavy...
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    the Middle Ages of European history, following the decline of the Western Roman Empire, and preceding the High Middle Ages (c. 11th to 14th centuries)....
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    Marcus Licinius Crassus (category 1st-century BC Roman governors of Syria)
    (/ˈkræsəs/; 115 – 53 BC) was a Roman general and statesman who played a key role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. He is often called...
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  • The Plague of Cyprian was a pandemic that afflicted the Roman Empire from about AD 249 to 262, or 251/2 to 270. The plague is thought to have caused widespread...
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    2013 Incendie au marché central de Bujumbura: des Sénégalais dans la désolation Agoravox, 25 Février 2013 Rwandan Helicopters Extinguish Fire in Bujumbura...
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    Roman Republic during the Third Punic War in 146 BC. It was re-developed a century later as Roman Carthage, which became the major city of the Roman Empire...
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  • IV Epiphanes, saying, "And they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate." Jerome, and most of the Christian fathers, suppose that the reference...
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    Vespasian (category 1st-century Roman emperors)
    Latin: Vespasianus [wɛspasiˈaːnʊs]; 17 November AD 9 – 23 June 79) was Roman emperor from 69 to 79. The last emperor to reign in the Year of the Four...
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    a prophecy of the Roman Empire's subsequent history; the horse's white color signifies triumph, prosperity, and health in the Roman political body. For...
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  • lay desolate until emperor Justinian restored it one hundred years later. Even worse, Constantinople, the capital of the eastern half of the Roman Empire...
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    correspondent that "the first [that is, finest] cleric character I ever saw was a Roman Catholick", he was referring to Bishop John Geddes. Catholic emancipation...
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    social strata, such as freedwomen, ingenui women, or women from newly Romanized families. During the provincial dynasty, Emperor Hadrian made the awkward...
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  • considered to be the world's oldest known purpose-built church, erected in the Roman Empire's administrative Diocese of the East in the 3rd century. Several...
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  • Crossing of the Rhine (category Battles involving the Roman Empire)
    year 406 (December 31, 406). The crossing transgressed one of the Late Roman Empire's most secure limites or boundaries and so it was a climactic moment...
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    backgrounds. Nominally a free Hellenistic city, Alexandria retained its senate of Roman times and the judicial functions of that body were restored by Septimius...
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    ˈæzəˌzɛl/; Hebrew: עֲזָאזֵל ʿĂzāʾzēl; Arabic: عزازيل, romanized: ʿAzāzīl) represents a desolate place where a scapegoat bearing the sins of the Jews was...
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    Dura-Europos (category Coloniae (Roman))
    Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates...
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    and later, Israelite and Judahite states. The region was conquered by the Roman Empire, and later ruled by the Arab Caliphates, Crusaders, Ayyubid, Mamluk...
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  • main character in Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red and sequels novels. Gwendolyn, a Roman centurion, a minor character in Rick Riordan's 2011 fantasy novel The Son...
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    subsequent periods of conflict and violent dispersion, such as the Jewish–Roman wars, gave rise to the Jewish diaspora. The Jewish diaspora is a wide dispersion...
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  • The judgment on the Jewish nation was executed by the Roman legions, "the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet." Since Matthew 24...
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