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    Ostia Antica (lit. 'Ancient Ostia') was an ancient Roman city and the port of Rome located at the mouth of the Tiber. It is near modern Ostia, 25 km (16 mi))...
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    The Roman Catholic Suburbicarian Diocese of Ostia is an ecclesiastical territory located within the Metropolitan City of Rome in Italy. It is one of the...
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    where it is joined by the River Aniene, to the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Ostia and Fiumicino. It drains a basin estimated at 17,375 km2 (6,709 sq mi)....
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    insulae at Ostia suggest that the upper floors could have had kitchens, latrines, and even piped water. Further luxurious features seen in Ostia include...
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    the Lateran before elevating him to the position of cardinal bishop of Ostia in 1117. Lamberto was one of the cardinals who accompanied Pope Gelasius...
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    archaeologist and researcher at Ostia Antica Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003). A. M. Colini. "Pietro Romanelli" StRom 30 (1982), 358–65. Fabrizio Vistoli...
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    Sapienza University in Rome, known for her work on the Roman port city of Ostia. Squarciapino studied at La Sapienza University in Rome and was a student...
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    Dean of the College of Cardinals (category Cardinal-bishops of Ostia)
    the dean ordains him a bishop. The dean has "the title of the diocese of Ostia, together with that of any other church to which he already has a title...
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    Velletri–Segni. Historically, the see of Velletri was combined with the see of Ostia from 1060 to 1914. The cathedral in the city of Velletri is dedicated to...
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    of Porto 1621–1623 and of Ostia and Velletri 1623–1625) Ottavio Bandini 1621–1624, (Bishop of Porto 1624–1626 and of Ostia and Velletri 1626–1629) Andrea...
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    Regional Park Capo di Bove Castello Orsini-Odescalchi Frascati Hadrian's Villa Ostia Antica Villa Aldobrandini Villa d'Este Villa Farnese Events and traditions...
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    Urban II elevated him to the cardinalate and named him Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia ca. 1095. He participated in the papal election, 1099 and was a principal...
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    with the goal of documenting in photographs the ancient ruins of Rome, Ostia, and Pompeii. The main reason for fleeing Potsdam was the institution of...
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  • papal chancellor Cardinal Aymeric de Bourgogne proclaimed the Bishop of Ostia, Cardinal Lamberto Scannabecchi, a man of considerable learning,[citation...
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    standing on a globe inscribed with a diagonal cross. On the figure from the Ostia Antica Mithraeum (left, CIMRM 312), the four wings carry the symbols of...
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    printed in Migne, Pat. Lat 94 (Paris), 1862:543, noted in F. Schneider, Rom und Romgedanke im Mittelalter (Munich) 1926:66f, 251, and in Roberto Weiss...
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    larger 386 basilica that replaced it had the Via Ostiense (the road to Ostia) to the east and so was extended westward, towards the river Tiber, changing...
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    Nasica and Claudia Quinta were said to have received the image of Cybele at Ostia on her arrival in 204 BC. Cybele's image was placed within the Temple of...
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    Aldrete, Gregory S. (2004). Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii and Ostia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 15, 34–35, 97. ISBN 978-0-313-33174-9....
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  • confronted on 5 July by the cardinals, led by Giovanni of Tusculum and Leo of Ostia. Pascal promised he would fix his error, but instead retreated farther,...
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    Albano. Francesco Pisani (3 May 1527 - 21 June 1564)., appointed Bishop of Ostia. Luigi Cornaro (21 June 1564 - 2 June 1568). Opted for the titulus of S...
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    sunk to form the foundations of the foremost quay of the new harbour at Ostia. Pope Sixtus V was determined to erect the obelisk in front of St Peter's...
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    Tiber, opposite Ostia. Trajan enlarged the basin, and in a short time there grew around it a city which eventually became independent of Ostia. Porto became...
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    long transept. One of the relics in the church, is the late 13th-century Ostia Incarnata; according to tradition it was a eucharistic wafer that miraculously...
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    Daily Sabah. 2017-07-07. Retrieved 2017-08-04. Ulrich, Stefan (2017-08-03). "Rom geht das Wasser aus – wegen undichter Leitungen". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in...
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    2017-11-13. Retrieved 2018-11-22., quoting Demandt, A. (1984). Der Fall Roms. p. 695. Galinsky 1992, pp. 53–73. Harper 2017, chapter 4 "The Old Age of...
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  • monument at Rome to his wife, Pilia Philtatae. Pilia Euterpe, buried at Ostia, aged eighteen years, five months, and twenty-two days. Pilia M. l. Flora...
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    first building and similar to the late imperial halls of the rich domus of Ostia Antica which also have rich covering of large marble slabs. The walls of...
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    Middleweight 1986 Budapes Middleweight 1989 Martigny Middleweight 1990 Ostia Middleweight European Championships 1986 Piraeus Welterweight 1988 Kolbotn...
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    third-century tomb at Ostia in Latium for her son, Quintus Vorenus. Quintus Vorenus, buried in a second- or third-century tomb at Ostia, dedicated by his...
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