The reign of Augustus initiated an era of relative peace known as the Pax Romana ( The Roman Peace ).

Romans also imposed peace between their diverse foreign subjects, which they described in beneficial terms as the Pax Romana.

* Pax Romana statement of Macram Max Gassis, Bishop of El Obeid, to the Fiftieth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, February 1994 of widespread destruction of hundreds of churches, forced conversions of Christians to Islam, concentration camps, genocide of the Nuba people, systematic rape of women, enslavement of children, torture of priests and clerics, burning alive of pastors and catechists, crucifixion and mutilation of priests.

With each legion having 5, 120 legionaries usually supported by an equal number of auxiliary troops, the total force available to a legion commander during the Pax Romana probably ranged from 11, 000 downwards, with the more prestigious legions and those stationed on hostile borders or in restive provinces tending to have more auxiliaries.

The last quarter of the century saw the end of the period of peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana at the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, last of the " Five Good Emperors ", and the accession of his ineffective and deranged son Commodus.

Marcus Aurelius repels the invaders, ending the Pax Romana ( Roman Peace ) that kept the Roman Empire free of conflict since the days of emperor Augustus.

Meanwhile, under the Pax Romana, Patavium became one of the most important cities of northern Italy.

Pax Romana ( Latin for " Roman peace ") was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

The empire, wracked with civil war for the last century of the Republic and for years following the Pax Romana, was largely free of large-scale power disputes.

The concept of Pax Romana was first described by Edward Gibbon in Chapter Two of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

During the Pax Romana, the area of Roman rule expanded to about five million square kilometres ( two million square miles ).

Pax Romana, according to Gibbon, would have ended with Commodus himself, whose dispendious excesses and despotic misrule destabilised central Roman politics amidst the chaos of the Germanic invasions of the Rhine-Danube frontier.

The Pax Romana started after Octavian ( Augustus ) defeated Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium.

The Pax Romana was not immediate, despite the end of the civil wars, because fighting continued in Spain and in the Alps.

Subsequent emperors followed his lead, sometimes producing lavish ceremonies to close the Gates of Janus, issuing coins with Pax on the reverse, and patronizing literature extolling the benefits of the Pax Romana.

Given the prominence of the concept of Pax Romana, historians have coined variants of the term to describe systems of relative peace that have been established, attempted or argued to have existed.

* United Nations of Roma Victrix History: Pax Romana

* Pax Romana Discussion group

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Wallinger's musical career began in Prestatyn in 1977 as a keyboard player with Pax, before forming the short-lived band Quasimodo with Dave Sharp and Nigel Twist ( who both went on to be in The Alarm ).

KPXO was a charter affiliate of the network when it began as Pax TV in 1998.

Channel 34 began operations in 2000 as KWBS-TV, which stood for WB Springfield ; however, original station owner Equity Broadcasting decided to make another new station, KWBM ( channel 31 ) the WB affiliate for Springfield, and KWBS insteed affiliated with Pax ( now Ion Television ).

The station began broadcasting on August 27, 1999 as WMPX-TV and was a Pax ( now Ion Television ) affiliate owned by Paxson Communications.

In the fall of 1998, the station affiliated with Pax TV ( later i and now ION Television ), running the network's programming from 11 a. m. to 7 p. m. and again from 10 p. m. to 1 a. m. WSFJ also began to be seen on a translator in Columbus, WCPX-LP channel 48, which was owned by Pax's parent company, Paxson Communications ( now ION Media Networks ).

On July 1, 1998, the station changed its call letters to KPXG, and upon the launch of Pax TV on August 31 the station began airing the network's programming from noon to midnight ( reduced to 4 – 11pm by 2003 ).

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

From 1809 to 1898, a period called Pax Russica, Finnish-Russian relations had been exceptionally peaceful and stable compared with other parts of the Russian Empire.

* Conventus Pacensis, with capital in Pax Iulia ( Beja, Portugal )

This, coupled with Britain's large and powerful industrial economy, made it perhaps the first truly global superpower and ushered in the Pax Britannica that lasted for the next 100 years.

The first articulation of a Pax Americana occurred after the end of the American Civil War with reference to the peaceful nature of the North American geographical region, and was abeyant at the commencement of the First World War.

The term Pax Americana was explicitly used by John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, who advocated against the idea, arguing that the Soviet bloc was composed of human beings with the same individual goals as Americans and that such a peace based on " American weapons of war " was undesirable:

Ever since the Pax Romana, starting with Augustus, the empire's economy depended in large part on trade between Mediterranean ports and across the extensive road systems to the Empire's interior.

It's mainly inspired in the Inca Empire with bands such as Yawarhiem ( Peru ), Tierramystica ( Brazil ), Aztra ( Ecuador ), Ch ' aska ( Peru ), Toccata Magna ( Brazil ), Guahaihoque ( Colombia ), Arraigo ( Argentina ) and Kranium ( Peru ); and the Aztec Empire with bands such as Yaotl Mictlan, Muluc Pax and Kukulcan from Mexico.

In 803 Nikephoros concluded a treaty, called the Pax Nicephori, with Charlemagne, but refused to recognize the latter's imperial dignity.

I've been able to get Randy Stonehill to the point where Myrrh Records has signed him directly, while others, like Mark Heard, Tom Howard, and Daniel Amos have all signed with different American companies like New Pax.

Fellow Swiss musician Ernest Ansermet, a champion of his music from 1918 on, conducted recordings of many of Martin's works, such as the oratorio for soloists, double chorus & orchestra In Terra Pax, written in 1944, with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

Schilling and Capdeville counter that it is his function of presiding over the return to peace that gave Janus this epithet, as confirmed by his association on March 30 with Pax, Concordia and Salus, even though it is true that Janus as god of all beginnings presides also over that of war and is thus often called belliger bringer of war as well as pacificus.

While Janus sometimes is named belliger and sometimes pacificus in accord with his general function of beginner, he is mentioned as Janus Quirinus in relation to the closing of the rites of March at the end of the month together with Pax, Salus and Concordia: This feature is a reflection of the aspect of Janus Quirinus which stresses the quirinal function of bringing peace back and the hope of soldiers for a victorious return.

On August 31, 1998, WPXN, along with the rest of the Paxson stations, premiered the new Pax television network, with a programming mix of infomercials, off-network reruns labeled as " family entertainment ", and the Worship Network during overnights.

NBC purchased a 32 percent stake in Pax in 1999, and as part of the deal NBC encouraged its stations, both owned and affiliated, to enter into joint sales agreements with the local Pax outlet.