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Ravenna and Cosmography
The name purocoronavium that appears in the Ravenna Cosmography implies the existence of a sub-tribe called the Cornavii or Cornovii, perhaps the ancestors of the Cornish people.
The Ravenna Cosmography includes the last two names ( in slightly different forms, as " Tamaris " and " Uxelis "), and adds several more names which may be settlements in the territory.
In the Ravenna Cosmography, Erimon may refer to Harris ( or possibly the Outer Hebrides as a whole ).
According to the Ravenna Cosmography, Mauringa was the land east of the Elbe.
A reconstruction of the Ravenna Cosmography placed on a Ptolemy's world map | Ptolemaic map.
It was at this time that the Ravenna Cosmography was written.
The Ravenna Cosmography, of around 700, makes reference to Purocoronavis, ( almost certainly a corruption of Durocornovium ), ' a fort or walled settlement of the Cornovii ': the location is unidentified, but Tintagel and Carn Brea have both been suggested.
Both are from the 7th-century Ravenna Cosmography.
A. and Crawford, O. G. S. ( 1949 ) The British Section of the Ravenna Cosmography.
There is evidence, based on an entry in the Ravenna Cosmography, that there may have been a sub-tribe in the western part of the territory known as the Cornovii, that appears to have been at least semi-independent at times, certainly retaining its independence after parts of Dumnonia came under Anglo-Saxon control between the 7th and 10th centuries.
Venta, which is also mentioned in the Ravenna Cosmography, and the Antonine Itinerary, was a settlement near the village of Caistor St. Edmund, some five miles south of present-day Norwich, and a mile or two from the Bronze Age Henge at Arminghall.
* Ravenna Cosmography, a 7th century map of the known world
Roman Horncastle has become known as Banovallum ( i. e. " Wall on the River Bain ") – this name has been adopted by several local businesses and by the town's secondary modern school – but in fact the actual Roman name for the settlement is not definitely known: Banovallum was suggested in the 19th century through an interpretation of the Ravenna Cosmography, a 7th century list of Roman towns and road-stations ; Banovallum may in fact have been Caistor.
However, the Ravenna Cosmography gives the name of their capital, in apparently corrupt form, as Rate Corion Eltavori, and an inscribed tile found in Churchover calls the administrative district Civitas Corieltauvorum, indicating that the true form should be Corieltauvi.
" Even the reading of the genitive plural tribe name in Ravenna Cosmography < nowiki ></ nowiki > as Regnentium is a tendentious emadation ... To go further and turn all this into Regnenses, ' The People of the Kingdom ', is more than rash ...
The earliest known reference to the River Coquet is found in the 7th Century Ravenna Cosmography, where it is known as Coccoveda.
These may be Mediomanum, ' the central fist ' of the Ravenna Cosmography, although this is disputed.
The Ravenna Cosmography, of around AD 700, refers to Purocoronavis ( almost certainly a corruption of Durocornovium ), ' a fort or walled settlement of the Cornovii ' ( unidentified, but possibly Tintagel or Carn Brea ).
Their name appears in the 8th century Ravenna Cosmography as ' Segloes ', but the document here is taken to be an imperfect copy of classical sources such as Ptolemy, and not an independent historical reference.
In the Ravenna Cosmography the town names appear as Carbantium, Uxela, Corda, and Trimuntium, resp., and the towns are given in a list that does not associate any of the towns with any particular people.
* The Anonymus of Ravenna ( Anonymus Ravennatis ), author of the Ravenna Cosmography, a Late Antique geographical work
The Ravenna Cosmography, an imperfect list of place-names that was compiled in the early 8th century from late Roman sources, lists amongst many others, over twenty names that probably refer to places in south-west England.
The ancient Greeks and Romans used the name Belerion or Bolerium for the south-west tip of the island of Britain, but the late-Roman source for the Ravenna Cosmography ( compiled about 700 CE ) introduces a place-name Puro coronavis, the first part of which seems to be a misspelling of Duro ( meaning Fort ).

Ravenna and about
In the 1340s, Violente was born in Ravenna, where Boccaccio was a guest of Ostasio I da Polenta from about 1345 through 1346.
Several years later, however, in 751, the Lombard king Aistulf captured Ravenna ; about this time, Eutychius was killed fighting against the Lombards.
According to the vita by Peter Damian, written about fifteen years after Romuald's death, Romuald was born in Ravenna, in northeastern Italy, to the aristocratic Onesti family.
The most famous tornado of this outbreak touched down in Portage County near the Ravenna, OH National Guard Amory at about 6: 30 PM and cut a 47 mile path through Newton Falls, Niles, and Hubbard, OH before entering Pennsylvania.
Another case that Blue Book's critics seized upon was the so-called Portage County UFO Chase, which began at about 5. 00am, near Ravenna, Ohio on April 17, 1966.
The part about Theodoric ( who died in 526 A. D .) probably concerns the statue of him sitting on his horse in Ravenna, which was moved in 801 A. D. to Aachen by Charlemagne.
However, if the paintings date to the 1080s or 1090s, as many art historians believe, then Beno and Maria may instead have favored the imperial opposition pope (" antipope ") Clement III / Wibert of Ravenna, whom they sought to honor through paintings about the early Christian pope of the same name.
It is located about 30 km southeast of Ferrara, and midway between Ferrara and Ravenna.
On the other hand he was politically engaged before and after, attending the packed conferences at Ravenna and Lucca in spring 56 when Julius Caesar patched up the tattered coalition with Crassus and Pompey, and in about summer 55 marrying his younger daughter to Pompeius ' homonymous eldest son Gnaeus Pompeius ( born ca. 79 BC ), thus ensuring his election to the consulate for the following year.
Peter Chrysologus (, Petros Chrysologos meaning Peter the " golden-worded ") ( c. 380 – c. 450 ) was Bishop of Ravenna from about 433 until his death.
Pope Sixtus III appointed Peter to the See of Ravenna in about the year 433, apparently rejecting the candidate elected by the people of the city.
Cardona had roughly 16, 000 troops and 30 artillery pieces ; the garrison of Ravenna could count about 5, 000 men.

Ravenna and 700
* Sarmazege ( Anonymous Geographer from Ravenna, around 700 AD )
In around 700 the nearby castle of Ricinis was mentioned by the Cartographer of Ravenna as one of the five most important castles of Alemannia.
The Ravenna Cosmography was compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around AD 700.
Only 700 out of 9, 000 survived the slaughter and fled to Italy, where they gained permission from the King of the Lombards, Grimoald, to settle in the area of Ravenna.

Ravenna and CE
Apollinaris of Ravenna brought Christianity in the 1st century CE.

Ravenna and which
At first Honorius based his capital in Mediolanum, but when the Visigoths under King Alaric I entered Italy in 401 he moved his capital to the coastal city of Ravenna, which was protected by a ring of marshes and strong fortifications.
Under Justinian's patronage the San Vitale in Ravenna, which features two famous mosaics representing Justinian and Theodora, was completed.
The struggle was accompanied by an armed outbreak in the exarchate of Ravenna in 727, which Leo finally endeavoured to subdue by means of a large fleet.
The pope, whose expectations had been aroused, had to content himself with some additions to the Duchy of Rome, the Exarchate of Ravenna, and the Pentapolis in the Marches, which consisted of the " five cities " on the Adriatic coast from Rimini to Ancona with the coastal plain as far as the mountains.
Prior to Stephen's alliance with Pepin, Rome had constituted the central city of the Duchy of Rome, which composed one of two districts within the Exarchate of Ravenna, along with Ravenna itself.
The authority of the Pope was now recognized throughout the papal territory, which then comprised the Exarchate of Ravenna, the March of Ancona, the Duchy of Spoleto, the County of Bertinoro, the Mathildian lands, and the Pentapolis, i. e., the cities of Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Senigallia, and Ancona.
According to the Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum, he obtained from the Emperor a decree which either abolished imperial confirmations altogether or made them obtainable from the Exarch of Ravenna.
He also refortified Centumcellae, and purchased off Thrasimund II of Spoleto the fortress of Gallese along the Via Flaminia, which had been taken by the Lombards, interrupting Rome ’ s communications with the exarch at Ravenna.
He had also opposed the arbitrary proceedings of the Archbishops of Bordeaux and Ravenna, and resisted the attacks which the Patriarch Photius made on the Holy See.
Created by law in 1988, it is managed by a consortium, the Consorzio per la gestione de Parco, to which Ferrara and Ravenna provinces belong as well as nine comuni: Comacchio, Argenta, Ostellato, Goro, Mesola, Codigoro, Ravenna, Alfonsine, and Cervia.
In Roman times it did not exit there but ran to the south as the Padus Vetus (" old Po ") exiting near Comacchio, from which split the Po di Primaro exiting close to Ravenna.
File: Battle of Ravenna ( 1512 ). JPG | The Battle of Ravenna, in which France defeated the Spaniards on Easter Sunday in 1512
Emperor Honorius moves his capital to the coastal city of Ravenna, which is protected by marshes and strong fortifications.
* The Battle of Ravenna is fought between the troops of Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian, and a force of Italians, raised by Pope Gregory II in defence of image worship, which Leo had outlawed.
For most of his rule, Glycerius lived in Northern Italy, as testified by the fact that the only mints which issued in his name are Milan and Ravenna.
It is probable that Glycerius left Ravenna for Rome, probably to resist the invader ; the clue is a silver coin minted in Rome, in which Glycerius claims to be Emperor together with other two Emperors ( Leo II and Zeno ), thus not recognising Julius Nepos.
Afterwards, the city formed the centre of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna until the invasion of the Franks in 751, after which it became the seat of the Kingdom of the Lombards.
Ravenna enjoyed a period of peace, during which time the Christian religion was favoured by the imperial court, and the city gained some of its most famous monuments, including the Orthodox Baptistery, the so-called Mausoleum of Galla Placidia ( she was not really buried there ), and San Giovanni Evangelista.
It houses the image of famous Greek Madonna, which was allegedly brought to Ravenna from Constantinople.
Eliot's poem " Lune de Miel " ( written in French ) describes a honeymooning couple from Indiana sleeping not far from the ancient Basilica of Sant ' Apollinare in Classe, ( just outside Ravenna ), famous for the carved capitals of its columns, which depict acanthus leaves buffeted by the wind, unlike the leaves in repose on similar columns elsewhere.

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