As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

Just below Brugg the Reuss and the Limmat join the Aar, while around Brugg are the ruined castle of Habsburg, the old convent of Königsfelden ( with fine painted medieval glass ) and the remains of the Roman settlement of Vindonissa ( Windisch ).

As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a " free and autonomous city " as early as 188 BC, and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance.

The city remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, Troadensis ; the seat is vacant following the resignation of the last bishop in 1971.

To date, Bonn's Roman fort remains the largest fort of its type known from the ancient world, i. e. a fort built for one full-size Imperial Legion and its auxiliaries.

These remains include a Frankish sword adorned with gold and garnets and a tafl game with Roman pawns of ivory.

The Bank's original home was in Walbrook in the City of London, where during the building's reconstruction in 1954 archaeologists found the remains of a Roman temple of Mithras ( Mithras was – rather fittingly – worshipped as being the God of Contracts ); the Mithraeum ruins are perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London and can now be viewed by the public.

This book ( which owes much to Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and other sources ) has widely supplanted the 1959 book, though the latter remains authorized.

Ecclesiastical Latin, the Roman Catholic Church ’ s official tongue, remains a living legacy of the classical world to the contemporary world.

The remains of a Roman villa have been excavated in the grounds of the current vicarage.

Roman remains have also been uncovered at the site.

The preserved remains of two monumental fountains that received the water from the spring date to the Archaic period and the Roman, with the later cut into the rock.

Although his work has been criticized for the lack of candor in checking the " facts ", some of his text has been confirmed by recent research, like the spectacular remains of Roman gold mines in Spain, especially at Las Medulas, which Pliny probably saw in operation while a Procurator there a few years before he compiled the encyclopedia.

The territory included the remains of two provincial Roman capitals Colchester and London.

In addition he engaged the German leader ( Arminius ) who had destroyed three Roman legions in 9, and exposed his troops to the remains of those dead Romans.

San Gregorio Armeno in Naples was built in that century over the remains of a Roman temple dedicated to Ceres, by a group of nuns escaping from the Byzantine Empire with the relics of Gregory the Illuminator.

It took a rally by an officer Callistus ( Ballista ), a fiscal official named Fulvius Macrianus, the remains of the Eastern Roman legions and one Odenathus and his Palmyrene horsemen to turn the tide against Shapur.

Callipolis remains a Roman Catholic titular bishopric in the former Roman province of Thrace.

The impact of Visigothic rule was not widely felt on society at large, and certainly not compared to the vast bureaucracy of the Roman Empire ; they tended to rule as barbarians of a mild sort, uninterested in the events of the nation and economy, working for personal benefit, and little literature remains to us from the period.

Around 105, however, there appears to have been a serious setback at the hands of the tribes of the Picts of Alba: several Roman forts were destroyed by fire, with human remains and damaged armour at Trimontium ( at modern Newstead, in SE Scotland ) indicating hostilities at least at that site.

However, the absence of any archaeological remains of or documentary evidence for a Roman fort at Hastings suggest that Hæstingaceaster may refer to a different settlement, most likely that based on the Roman remains at Pevensey.

Representing as it did the efforts of only unauthorized individuals of the Roman and Anglican Churches, and urging a communion of prayer unacceptable to Rome, this association produced little fruit, and, in fact, was condemned by the Holy Office in 1864.

The Hebrew and Nabataean alphabets, as they stood by the Roman era, were little changed in style from the Imperial Aramaic alphabet.

The epithet Amathusia in Roman poetry often means little more than " Cypriote ," attesting to the fame of the city.

* 1 BC – 8 AD: The Roman Game of kings is a game of which little is known, and which is more or less contemporary with the Latrunculi.

In about 15 BC, the Romans redrew the town as a castrum ( Roman military camp ) centred on the " Mons Taber ", a little hill near the contemporary city hall ( Plaça de Sant Jaume ).

The political revolt brought little social change, however, and 19th century Chilean society preserved the essence of the stratified colonial social structure, which was greatly influenced by family politics and the Roman Catholic Church.

The ancient Roman concept of virtus ( i. e. of virtue that had to be proved by a political or military career ), which Cicero suggested as the solution to the societal problems of the late Republic, meant little to them.

When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the Emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the Shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the Holy Roman Emperor.

Empress Matilda ( 1102 – 1167 ) is the only British monarch commonly referred to as " emperor " or " empress ", but acquired her title through her marriage to Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, and had little legitimacy as Queen of England.

Lacking a strong general to control the by-now mostly barbarian Roman Army, Honorius could do little to attack Alaric's forces directly, and apparently adopted the only strategy he could in the situation: wait passively for the Visigoths to grow weary and spend the time marshalling what forces he could.

In 1804, he had no compunction about announcing that through his authority as Holy Roman Emperor, he declared he was now Emperor of Austria ( at the time a geographical term that had little resonance ).

A little to the south of Fonni stood the Roman station of Sorabile, mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary as situated some 100 km from Caralis on the road to Olbia.

The old Holy Roman Empire was little more than a farce ; Napoleon simply abolished it in 1806 while forming new countries under his control.

Finally, the repeated raids on the Eastern Roman Empire had left it with little to plunder.

The Hagia Sophia architects innovatively combined the longitudinal structure of a Roman basilica and the central plan of a drum-supported dome, in order to withstand the high magnitude earthquakes of the Marmara Region, “ However, in May 558, little more than 20 years after the Church ’ s dedication, following the earthquakes of August 553 and December 557, parts of the central dome and its supporting structure system collapsed .” The Hagia Sophia was repeatedly cracked by earthquakes and was quickly repaired.

Although part of the Roman world, we know very little about the island until the 11th century.

The Roman occupation of Athens led to a resurgence of monument-building, although little is left of them today.

The Eastern Roman Empire, conventionally referred to as the " Byzantine Empire " after the fall of its western counterpart, had little ability to assert control over the lost western territories.

As the Germanic kingdoms succeeded Roman authority in the West in the fifth century, Roman landlords were often simply replaced by Gothic or Germanic ones, with little change to the underlying situation or displacement of populations.

Gregory interfered little in European politics, beyond assisting Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Catholic League against the Protestants -- to the tune of a million gold ducats -- as well as Sigismund III Vasa, King of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman Empire.

Almost nothing is known about the city in this period, aside from the walls, the Greek theatre, the foundations of a house under the Roman forum and a little temple dedicated to a hero cult.

The Pope's cousin, Francesco Maria Conti, from Siena, became chamberlain of James ' little court in the Roman Muti Palace.

To prevent Richard from spoiling their plans, Philip and John attempted to bribe the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI to keep the English king captive for a little while longer.