in other words its existence belongs to the period of Roman Britain.

The Roman Catholic Church sanctions only abstention or the rhythm method, also known as the use of the infertile or safe period.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

The Amazons have become associated with various historical peoples throughout the Roman Empire period and Late Antiquity.

It also remained the spoken tongue of the indigenous Assyrian / Babylonian citizens of all Mesopotamia under Persian, Greek and Roman rule, and indeed well into the Arab period it was still the language of the majority, particularly in the north of Mesopotamia, surviving to this day among the Assyrian Christians.

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

There is evidence it was used as early as the Roman Imperial period, and as recently as the American Civil War.

Strabo mentions that a Roman colony was created at the location in the reign of Augustus, named Colonia Alexandria Augusta Troas ( called simply Troas during this period ).

By the Roman period brass was being deliberately produced from metallic copper and zinc minerals using the cementation process and variations on this method continued until the mid 19th century.

There is good archaeological evidence for this process and crucibles used to produce brass by cementation have been found on Roman period sites including Xanten and Nidda in Germany, Lyon in France and at a number of sites in Britain.

Brass made during the early Roman period seems to have varied between 20 % to 28 % wt zinc.

However it is now thought this was probably a deliberate change in composition and overall the use of brass increases over this period making up around 40 % of all copper alloys used in the Roman world by the 4th century AD.

Though associated with the Sassanid Persians and with Mithradates VI Eupator ( who for a time incorporated the city into his empire ), by the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.

' Archaeological cultures ' in the early Roman period, c. mid C 1 A. D.

The writer of the pesher draws a comparison between the Babylonian invasion of the original text and the Roman threat of the writer's own period.

Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of this period, took a particular interest in Britain as Gnaeus Julius Agricola, his father-in-law and the subject of his first book, served there three times.

The battle typically marks the starting of a period of increased military and political instability in the Roman Empire, although the symptoms of the crisis had already appeared in the preceding decades.

There is a surviving tradition of Latin philology in Western culture connecting the Roman Empire with the Early Modern period.

The Golden Bull of 1356 was a decree issued by a Reichstag in Nuremberg headed by Emperor Charles IV that fixed, for a period of more than four hundred years, an important aspect of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire.

He realized the importance of the Roman Catholic Church as a bastion of loyalty, legitimacy, social control, and stability, as had been the case in the colonial period.

This was the only office in the Roman Republic whose term was a period of eighteen months instead of the usual twelve.

The Cardinal Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, assisted by the Vice-Camerlengo and the other prelates of the office known as the Apostolic Camera, has functions that in essence are limited to a period of sede vacante of the papacy.

Long after the Roman census was no longer taken, the Latin word lustrum has survived, and been adopted in some modern languages, in the derived sense of a period of five years, i. e. half a decennium.

* 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.

* 476: Odoacer captures Ravenna and the Western Roman Empire ends.

* 1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.

This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends sometime in the early fifteenth century.

The stock parasite in this play, Gelasimus, has a patron-client relationship with this family and offers to do any job in order to make ends meet ; Owens puts forward that Plautus is portraying the economic hardship many Roman citizens were experiencing due to the cost of war.

Between the two ends of the range, the only passes worth mentioning are the Col de la Perche, between the valley of the Têt and the valley of the Segre, the Port d ' Envalira, the highest mountain pass in the Pyrenees and one of the highest points of the European road network, and the Col de Somport or Port de Canfranc, where there were old Roman roads, but apparently, no modern highways.

* 306 – 337: Constantine I, ends persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ( see also Constantinian shift ) and Constantinople becomes new seat of government ( New Rome )

Octavian's ascension to total power as the emperor Augustus is considered to mark the point in history where the Roman Republic ends and the Roman Empire begins.

* Third Servile War ends ; Slave uprising under leadership of Spartacus is crushed by a Roman army under Marcus Licinius Crassus.

* April 2 – May 29 – Siege and Fall of Constantinople ( now Istanbul ): The Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II the Conqueror ends the Roman Empire by capturing the capital, Constantinople.

* The Roman war against Numidia and Mauretania ends with their annexation.

* May 25 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.

* The First Dacian War ends: Decebalus becomes a client king of Rome, he receives money, craftsmen and war machines to protect the borders ( Limes ) of the Roman Empire.

* Tiberius Avidius Quietus ' rule as governor of Roman Britain ends.

Roman rule under Syagrius ends.

* Cicero ends his service in the Roman army.

In the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite, the two weeks before Easter form the season of Passiontide, a subsection of the Lenten season that begins with Matins of Ash Wednesday and ends immediately before the Mass of the Easter Vigil.

The sequence of the liturgy are almost identical to the Roman Rite, except the Confession of Sin ends the Liturgy of the Word in the Anglican rites in North America, while in the Roman Rite and in Anglican rites in the rest of the world the Confession is near the beginning of the service.

The play ends with a tribute to Brutus by Antony, who proclaims that Brutus has remained " the noblest Roman of them all " because he was the only conspirator who acted for the good of Rome.

For example, Jonathan Bate has pointed out that the play begins with Titus returning from a successful ten year campaign against the Goths, as if at the height of the Roman Empire, but ends with Goths invading Rome, as if at its death.

* The Lusitanian War ends when the rebellion collapses after the assassination of Viriathus by a Roman agent.