Anatolia has had many civilizations throughout history, such as the Hattians, Hurrians, Luwians, Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Urartians, Cimmerians, Carians, Scythians, Corduene, Armenians, Romans, Georgians, Circassians, Kurds, Seljuk Turks and Ottomans.

Hannibal may have crossed the Alps with a herd of elephants, and the Romans had settlements in the region.

Although Romans who had been adopted into a new family usually retained their old nomen in cognomen form ( e. g. Octavianus for one who had been an Octavius, Aemilianus for one who had been an Aemilius, etc.

The Germanics were in Germany and Scandinavia during earliest mention of them in Roman literature, long before the Romans had even conquered Italy.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

" a gentleman who, perhaps alone of the Romans, had survived the shock of this notable storm.

The declaration is notable since, according to Livy, it was the first time that the Romans had declared war by means of the rites of the fetials.

They sprung the attack when the Romans were most vulnerable-when they had left their fortified camp, and were on the march in a pounding rainstorm.

Saxon raids on the southern and eastern shores of England had been sufficiently alarming by the late 3rd century for the Romans to build the Saxon Shore forts, and subsequently to establish the role of the Count of the Saxon Shore to command the defence against these incursions.

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Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

The Macedonian king had suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the Romans in the Second Macedonian War ( 200-197 BC ), which had reduced him from a powerful Hellenistic monarch to the status of a petty client-king with a much-reduced territory and a tiny army.

As expected, the Bastarnae attacked the vanguard in force, only to find themselves entangled in the full-scale pitched battle with the Romans that they had tried to avoid.

According to Tacitus, they drew inspiration from the example of Arminius, the prince of the Cherusci who had driven the Romans out of Germany in AD 9, and their own ancestors who had driven Julius Caesar from Britain.

As the Romans advanced in a wedge formation, the Britons attempted to flee, but were impeded by the presence of their own families, whom they had stationed in a ring of wagons at the edge of the battlefield, and were slaughtered.

For example, he believed ( as most Romans ) that his ancestor Appius Claudius Caecus had used the censorship to introduce the letter " R " and so used his own term to introduce his new letters.

In 87, the Romans invaded Dacia once more, this time under the command of Tettius Julianus, and finally defeated Decebalus in late 88 at the same site where Fuscus had previously perished.

The Demiurge, fearing lest Jesus, whom he had intended as his Messiah, should spread the knowledge of the Supreme God, had him crucified by the Romans.

There was also a similar belt worn by the Romans, particularly by soldiers, called a cintus ( pl.

Her nearest Roman equivalent, Vesta, had similar functions as a divine personification of Rome's " public " and domestic hearths, including those of her colonies ; and Vesta's cults bound Romans together in the form of an extended family.

In any case, ethnic borders in the Cantabrian mountains were not so important after that time, as the clans divisions that permeated the pre-roman societies of all the peoples of Northern Iberia fell under similar political administrative culture impossed on them by the Romans.

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In the town of Dundee there exists a strange traditionary story of the plague, connected with the conversion, from dire necessity of the Arionaten, or black slug, to a use similar to that which the luxurious Romans are said to have made of the great apple-snail.

Though the legal and administrative framework of provinces, each administrated by a governor, was created by the Romans, the term governor has been a convenient term for historians to use in describing similar systems in antiquity.

Soldiers similar to this would have been used by the Romans.

Varro and Castor of Rhodes also wrote something very similar ; however, some ancient Greek and Romans attempted to calculate the date for the creation by using ancient sources or records of mythological figures.

Though this story, as dubious as it may be, adds fuel to the speculation that Ellis did not create the game per se, as there had previously been sports such as caid and harpastum, a game which was similar to rugby that was played by the ancient Romans.

One can find little of Pelagius ' works in print save his commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, which is similar to Antiochian writings of the same age.

Another plant, asafoetida, was used as a cheaper substitute for silphium, and had similar enough qualities that Romans, including the geographer Strabo, used the same word to describe both.

The earliest records of the Germanic peoples were recorded by the Romans, and in these works Thor is frequently referred to — via a process known as interpretatio romana ( where characteristics perceived to be similar by Romans result in identification of a non-Roman god as a Roman deity )— as either the Roman god Jupiter ( also known as Jove ) or the Greco-Roman demigod Hercules.

In 151 BC, a time of disaster for the Romans in Spain, he voluntarily offered his services in that province and developed influence over the native tribes similar to that which Scipio Africanus, his grandfather by adoption, had acquired nearly 60 years before.

A lifting tower similar to that of the ancient Romans was used to great effect by the Renaissance architect Domenico Fontana in 1586 to relocate the 361 t heavy Vatican obelisk in Rome.

Two further, specifically Roman orders of architecture have their characteristic capitals, the sturdy and primitive Tuscan capitals, typically used in military buildings, similar to Greek Doric, but with fewer small moldings in its profile, and the invented Composite capitals not even mentioned by Vitruvius, which combined Ionic volutes and Corinthian acanthus capitals, in an order that was otherwise quite similar in proportions to the Corinthian, itself an order that Romans employed much more often than Greeks.

In his 1807 Almanach des Gourmands, gastronomist Grimod de La Reynière presents his rôti sans pareil (" roast without equal ")— a bustard stuffed with a turkey, a goose, a pheasant, a chicken, a duck, a guinea fowl, a teal, a woodcock, a partridge, a plover, a lapwing, a quail, a thrush, a lark, an ortolan bunting and a garden warbler — although he states that, since similar roasts were produced by ancient Romans, the rôti sans pareil was not entirely novel.

The conquest of Dacia saw a similar process of Romanisation north of the Danube, so that by AD 200, Latin was probably predominant in the zone permanently occupied by the Romans.

Archaeology and art history indicate that headgear similar to the modern beret has been worn since the Bronze Age across northern Europe and as far south as ancient Crete and Italy, where it was worn by the Minoans, Romans and Etruscans.

The Romans also introduced the poll tax which was similar to tax rates that the Ptolemies levied, but the Romans gave special low rates to citizens of metropolises.

Among the Romans a similar custom was in vogue, but the song was sung by girls only, after the marriage guests had gone, and it contained much more of what modern attitudes would identify as obscene.

The Romans called an area similar to northern England " Britannia Inferior " ( Lower Britain ) and it was ruled from the city of Eboracum ( modern York ).

The ancient Greeks and Romans wore amethyst and made drinking vessels of it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication.

St. Paul in Romans and I Corinthians placed special emphasis on this doctrine, and stressed that belief in Jesus would allow Christians to overcome death and attain salvation in the hereafter.

The outstretched arms which are prominent in both works betray David's deeply held belief that acts of republican virtue akin to those of the Romans were being played out in France.

Ancient Romans such as Pliny ( N. H. 5. 10 ) thought that the river near Timbuktu was part of the Nile River, a belief also held by Ibn Battuta, while early European explorers thought that it flowed west and joined the Senegal River.

The belief that the name of the city was originally Acesta or Egesta and changed to Segesta by the Romans to avoid its ill-omened meaning in Latin is disproved by coins showing that Segesta was indeed the earlier name.

When the Romans settled there, they absorbed the cult of Quirinus into their early belief system — previous to direct Greek influence — and by the end of the first century BC Quirinus was considered to be the deified Romulus.

Later still, Romans began to drift away from the state belief system in favor of more personal and mystical cults ( such as those of Bacchus, Cybele, and Isis ).

Neither Agricola nor his successors ever conquered Ireland, but in recent years archaeology has challenged the belief that the Romans never set foot on the island.

No sources have been found for the belief that Capernaum was involved in the bloody Jewish revolts against the Romans, the First Jewish-Roman War ( AD 66 – 73 ) or Bar Kokhba's revolt ( 132 – 135 ), although there is reason to believe that Josephus, one of the Jewish generals during the earlier revolt, was taken to Capernaum ( which he called " Kapharnakos ") after a fall from his horse in nearby Bethsaida ( Josephus, Vita, 72 ).

Leaders and scriptural texts of the LDS Church actually affirm a belief in the Holy Trinity but use the word " Godhead " ( a term used by the Apostle Paul in Acts 17: 29 ; Romans 1: 20, and Colossians 2: 9 ) as a means to set apart their belief that the unity of the three persons of the Trinity includes unity in all things, except a physical unity of beings.

Neither Agricola nor his successors ever conquered Ireland, but in recent years archaeology has challenged the belief that the Romans never set foot on the island.

He spoke of a belief that God had stopped him from continuing to preach through the New Testament book of the Letter to the Romans in his Friday evening Bible study exposition because he did not personally know enough about " joy in the Holy Spirit ", which was to be his next sermon ( based on Romans 14: 17 ).

Interpretatio graeca may also describe non-Greeks ' interpretation of their own belief systems by comparison or assimilation with Greek models, as when Romans adapt Greek myths and iconography under the names of their own gods.

The Way has received criticism for some of its internal policies, including a practice known as " Mark and Avoid " which instructs followers to avoid individuals whose practices cause division and offences to the doctrine ( Romans 16: 17 ), and for its belief and promotion of living debt-free.

The Romans, it is believed, were attracted by the belief that Scotland was rich in natural resources, including gold, silver and tin.

In Romans 12: 6 this refers to one of three possible ideas: the body of Christian teachings, the person's belief and response to the grace of God, or to the type of faith that can move mountains.

This includes questioning the Romans at Compendium ( only to trigger a riot when the Romans know nothing about the theft and assume that the Gauls are there to get them to pay for being in the legions ), trashing the pirates in the belief that they stole the money ( although the pirates were for once trying to engage in an honest profession by turning their ship into a restaurant ), selling boars ( only to sell them at a ridiculously low price ), prize fighting ( only to win worthless statuettes ), acting ( Obelix insults the audience and ruins the company ), gambling ( only to lose their money when the tip doesn't pay off ) and even trying to rob a bank ( which is empty of money due to the recent tax increases by the Romans ).

Publius Decius Mus is the name of three Romans who ( according to legend ) sacrificed themselves in battle, in the belief that the infernal gods would then destroy their enemies.