The Jews awaited with hope, but then after Hadrian visited Jerusalem, he decided to rebuild the city as a Roman colony which would be inhabited by his legionnaires.

In 124-125 AD, when the strongly Philhellene Hadrian visited Athens, a massive building programme was begun that included the completion of the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

In 122AD the province was visited by the Emperor Hadrian, who approved a plan to build a stone wall the length of the frontier.

Emperor Hadrian visited in 122, and probably as a result a number of impressive public buildings were constructed.

In 130, Hadrian visited the ruins of Jerusalem remaining after the First Roman-Jewish War of 66 – 73.

The emperor Hadrian visited the city after which it took the name of Hadrianopolis for a period, in his honour.

And although Hadrian outlawed circumcision as a mutilation normally visited on people unable to consent, he later exempted the Jews.

In 128, Emperor Hadrian ( 117-138 ) visited Nicopolis and Corinth.

Hadrian, who twice visited Aegyptus, founded Antinoöpolis in memory of his drowned lover Antinous.

As did Hadrian, emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Septimius Severus and Constantine I, all visited Aqua Balissae's thermal complex, its decorated temple, its forum and its, ( though not as big as the one in Pula ), amphitheatre.

This outer inscription makes it possible to date the gate to the year AD 129 AD when Hadrian visited Asia Minor.

There is evidence that the Emperor Hadrian visited in 122 on his way north to plan his great walled frontier.

After the earliest period, the history of which is essentially unknown, but to which the walls in the core hill portion of the town attest, dated to the 1st century BC, the first stage of the development of Trevi beyond the hill took place under the Empire, when Hadrian restored the main road through the territory, the Via Flaminia, thus spurring the growth of a suburb in the plain at the place now called Pietrarossa, where sporadic excavations over several centuries have brought to light many remains: among them Roman baths that appear to have been still more or less in use in the time of St. Francis, who is known to have visited the area and to have advised people to bathe there.

This temple had been rebuilt under the direction of Hadrian ( ruled 117-138 ), who visited Gaza ; it was represented on the Gaza coins of Hadrian himself.

In 129, Hadrian visited the city and was so enthralled by it that he proclaimed it a free city and renamed it Palmyra Hadriana.

Probably in the winter 122-123 D. C. Hadrian visited the city and held in it a conventus for Hispania.

In c. 120 AD the Roman emperor Hadrian visited Britain and the sections dating from this period may be associated with his plan to settle the Fens.

Further developments occurred in Judaea Province in the year 130, when Emperor Hadrian visited the Eastern Mediterranean and, according to Cassius Dio, made the decision to rebuild the city of Jerusalem as the pagan Roman city of Aelia Capitolina, derived from his own name.

Hadrian was born Publius Aelius Hadrianus to an ethnically Italian family, either in Italica near Seville, in today ´ s Spain, or in Rome.

Hadrian was born Publius Aelius Hadrianus in Italica, or in Rome, from a well-established family which had originated in Picenum in Italy and had subsequently settled in Italica, Hispania Baetica ( the republican Hispania Ulterior ), near the present-day location of Seville, Spain.

Map of the Roman empire in AD 125, under emperor Hadrian, showing the Legio I Italica, stationed on the river Danube at Svishtov | Novae ( Svishtov, Bulgaria ), in Moesia Inferior province, from AD 70 until the 5th century

Hispalis developed into one of the great market and industrial centres of Hispania, while Italica remained a typically Roman residential city and was the birthplace of the Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian.

Antoninus made few initial changes when he became emperor, leaving intact as far as possible the arrangements instituted by Hadrian.

The temple seems to have been burnt again during the Third Sacred War ( 355 – 346 BCE ), and was in a very dilapidated state when seen by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, though some restoration, as well as the building of a new temple, was undertaken by Emperor Hadrian.

His parents died in 86 when Hadrian was ten, and the boy then became a ward of both Trajan and Publius Acilius Attianus ( who was later Trajan ’ s Praetorian Prefect ).

Neither during the first victorious phase, nor during the second phase of the war when rebellion swept Mesopotamia did Hadrian do anything of note.

However when the governor of Syria had to be sent to sort out renewed troubles in Dacia, Hadrian was appointed as a replacement, giving him an independent command.

There was almost a war with Parthia around 121, but the threat was averted when Hadrian succeeded in negotiating a peace.

But when Pope Hadrian I called for help from the powerful king Charlemagne, Desiderius was defeated at Susa and besieged in Pavia, while his son Adelchis had also to open the gates of Verona to Frankish troops.

Yet so costly was the Roman victory that the Emperor Hadrian, when reporting to the Roman Senate, did not see fit to begin with the customary greeting " If you and your children are well, all is well.

" At an irreducible minimum he was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the Roman province of Bithynia in what is now north-west Turkey, and joined the entourage of the emperor Hadrian at a young age, although nothing certain is known of how, when, or where he and Hadrian met.

Following the example of Alexander ( who sought divine honours for his beloved general, Hephaestion, when he died ) Hadrian had Antinous proclaimed a god.

Some indeed maintain that this was done because of piety or religion ( pia reliogiosaque ): the reason being, they say, that Hadrian wanted to extend his own life-span by any means, and when the magicians demanded a volunteer to substitute for him, everyone declined, but Antinous offered himself-hence the aforementioned honours done to him.

For Hadrian having come to sojourn in the land of Egypt, when Antinous the minister of his pleasure died, ordered him to be worshipped ; being indeed himself in love with the youth even after his death, but for all that offering a convincing exposure of himself, and a proof against all idolatry, that it was discovered among men for no other reason than by reason of the lust of them that imagined it.

' He must, nevertheless, have been thirty years of age when he began to study with Hadrian.

Arrian left Cappadocia shortly before the death of his patron Hadrian, in 138, and there is no evidence for any further public appointments until 145 / 6 when he was elected Archon at Athens, once the city's leading political post but by this time an honorary one.

What is today known as the " Old City " was laid out by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century, when he began to rebuild Jerusalem as a pagan city.

He was then quickly restored to his former prestige and reunited with his family ; but when he demonstrated his new faith by refusing to make a pagan sacrifice, the emperor, Hadrian, condemned Eustace, his wife, and his sons to be roasted to death inside a bronze statue of a bull or an ox, in the year AD 118.

Willobie may have died before 30 June 1596, when a new edition of Willobie his Avisa was published with the addition of an " Apologie " by Hadrian Dorrell, a friend of the author, which describes him as " now of late gone to God.

The position existed into the 2nd century AD, when it was probably abolished by the Roman emperor Hadrian.

Kifisia had become a famous retreat of philosophers during the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, when the wealthy Herodes Atticus of Marathon, Greece built the Villa Kifisia.

Verus ’ father was Hadrian ’ s first adopted son and his intended heir ; however, when Verus ’ father died, Hadrian chose Faustina ’ s father to be his second adopted son, and eventually, he became Hadrian ’ s successor.