The colony had been small until the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 drove many Jews into Rome.

As a small child, she travelled with her parents throughout the Empire until she and her siblings ( apart from Caligula ) returned to Rome to live with and be raised by Antonia.

During the Julio-Claudian period, the Temple of Rome and Augustus, a small, round edifice, about 23 meters from the Parthenon, was to be the last significant ancient construction on the summit of the rock.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

* Carthage transfers a group of small islands north of Sicily ( Aeolian Islands and Ustica ) to Rome.

His father, Urbano Fellini ( 1894 – 1956 ), born to a family of Romagnol peasants and small landholders from Gambettola, moved to Rome in 1915 as a baker apprenticed to the Pantanella pasta factory.

A small town was built at Empire Studios on the via Pontina outside Rome.

While in Rome he suffered a severe cold, which left him partially deaf, and, as a result, he began to carry a small ear trumpet with which he is often pictured

The two men remained in Naples for a week before heading off to Rome in a small carriage, where they arrived mid-November 1820 and met Keats's physician, Dr. James Clark.

Augustus banished his grandson Postumus Agrippa to the small island of Planasia ( around 6 or 7 AD ), and Tiberius was recalled to Rome and officially adopted by Augustus.

With the Florentine cosmographer Paolo Toscanelli he collaborated in astronomy, a close science to geography at that time, and produced a small Latin work on geography, Descriptio urbis Romae ( The Panorama of the City of Rome ).

Firms are often small to medium in size and operate in the building and building materials ( Rome, Civitavecchia ), paper ( Sora ), petrochemical ( Gaeta, Rome ), textile ( Frosinone ), engineering ( Rieti, Anagni ), automobile ( Cassino ), electronic and electrotechnical ( Viterbo ) sectors.

At the first opportunity, Salumbrino sent a small quantity to Rome to test as a malaria treatment.

In Ancient Rome, thermopolia ( singular thermopolium ) were small restaurant-bars which offered food and drinks to the customer.

Through this harbour passed all the goods to or from Rome, but all the cargo was carried by small and light ships directed to Olbia ( some 50 Kilometers north ), where bigger ships would have trafficked with Ostia.

On her visit to Rome, the Venetian envoy described Catherine as " small of stature, and thin, and without delicate features, but having the protruding eyes peculiar to the Medici family ".

He designed several other buildings, and for a short time was the most important architect in Rome, working for a small circle around the Papacy.

Tradition holds that the seven hills were first occupied by small settlements and not grouped or recognized as a city called Rome.

The Church of St Mary in Palmis (, ), better known as Chiesa del Domine Quo Vadis, is a small church southeast of Rome, central Italy.

During this low point of his career, Ingres was forced to depend for his livelihood on the execution, in pencil, of small portrait drawings of the many tourists, in particular the English, passing through postwar Rome.

He also drew a number of landscape views while in Rome but, with the exception of the small tondo Raphael's Casino ( two other small tondos are of questionable attribution ), he painted no pure landscapes.

Francesco brought a more mellow and airy palette to the typically Venetian colors, and his rural scenes were populated with small figures reminiscent of Claude, whose work he had studied in Rome.

The city-state of Genoa, unlike ancient Rome, bestowed the title of Consul on various state officials, not necessarily restricted to the highest.

The name of the region also survives in the tribal designation of the ancient population of Latins, Latini in the Latin language spoken by them and passed on to the city-state of Ancient Rome.

The pope is also head of state of Vatican City, a sovereign city-state entirely enclaved within the city of Rome.

* During the summer the people of Rome revolt against the authority of the Pope and create a republican city-state comparable to that of the other Italian cities.

Through conquest by their most populous city-state, Rome, the original Latins culturally " Romanized " or " Latinized " the rest of Italy.

Later the Latin culture became dominant, as Rome emerged as a powerful city-state around 350 BC.

Many sites associated with Veii, which were in the city-state of Veii, are also located in Formello, another comune of the Province of Rome, immediately to the north.

In 190 BC a fleet from the Greek island city-state of Rhodes, supported by Rome and Pergamum, defeated the Seleucid King Antiochus the Great's fleet, which was under the command of the fugitive Carthaginian general Hannibal.

The friendly city-state of Carthage sent a congratulatory embassy to Rome with a twenty-five pound crown for the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.

* Vatican City, a sovereign city-state within Rome, Italy

From its origin as a city-state in Italy in the 8th century BC, to its rise as an empire covering much of Southern Europe, Western Europe, Near East and North Africa and fall in the 5th century AD, the political history of Ancient Rome was typically closely entwined with its military history.

However, archaeological evidence suggests that Rome did not acquire the character of a unified city-state ( as opposed to a number of separate hilltop settlements ) until c. 625 BC.

From its inception, Rome was a republican city-state, but four famous civil conflicts destroyed the republic: Lucius Cornelius Sulla against Gaius Marius and his son ( 88 – 82 BC ), Julius Caesar against Pompey ( 49 – 45 BC ), Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus against Mark Antony and Octavian ( 43 BC ), and Mark Antony against Octavian.

The ability to preserve a strongly centralized sense of identity while adapting to changing circumstances permitted the expansionism that took Rome from city-state to world power.

Instead of having to wait for the unavoidable revolt of a conquered people ( a tribe or a city-state ) like Sparta and the conquered Helots, Rome made the " known " ( conquered ) world Roman.

The senators wrote letters and argued for a return to traditional Roman beliefs, often stressing the protection and good fortune the old Roman gods had bestowed Rome since her beginnings as a small city-state.

One of these, Byzantium, a distant colony established on the Bosporus by the city-state of Megara, grew to supplant Rome and ultimately proved the downfall of Troy as it dominated all maritime and overland trade for almost 22 centuries.

At the end of this period two pious Christians in Rome receive the revelation which leads them to seek the next Pope on the rock.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

everyone was very high on Rome that year.

Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.

At this point you cross the wide Corso Vittorio Emanuele 2,, walk along the Corso Del Rinascimento a couple of hundred yards, then turn left on the Via Dei Canestrani to enter the splendid Piazza Navona, one of the truly glorious sights in Rome.

( Along the way there, about one hundred yards on your right, you pass a simple restaurant, La Sacrestia, where you can have the best pizza in Rome.

There are a great many bishops who have never had a cross on their bosom, nor a mitre on their head, who appeal not to the authority of the Pope at Rome, but to the Almighty Dollar, a pope much nearer home.

He had put on the gray jacket and the dark-gray slacks and the fawn-colored shirt he had worn that first night in Rome when he had encountered her on the street.

Cousin Emma had simply put Miss Theresa Stubblefield, Rome, Italy, on the envelope, had walked up to the post office in Tuxapoka, Alabama, and mailed it with as much confidence as if it had been a birthday card to her next-door neighbor.

This letter would have got to me if she hadn't even put Rome, Italy, on it.

The normal method of calculation in ancient Rome, as in Greece, was by moving counters on a smooth table.

After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).

While his paternal family was from the town of Velletri, about from Rome, Augustus was born in the city of Rome on 23 September 63 BC.

" When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday ; when I am at Milan, I do not.

Also, Caracalla perhaps felt more comfortable about campaigning in the upper Main because he was not declaring war on any specific historic tribe, such as the Chatti or Cherusci, against whom Rome had suffered grievous losses.

In many parts of the world, acropoleis became the nuclei of large cities of classical antiquity, such as ancient Rome, which in more recent times grew up on the surrounding lower ground, such as modern Rome.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

During Virgil's time Aeneas was well-known and various versions of his adventures were circulating in Rome, including Roman Antiquities by Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( relying on Marcus Terentius Varro, Ab Urbe Condita by Livy ( probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl.

Around this time, to avoid any scandals Tiberius divorced Julia and left Rome to live on the Greek island of Rhodes.