The Romans, who later controlled this region, were also partial to a drop of wine.
Tunnel-like walkways take visitors back to the times of the Etruscans, who predated the Romans.
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The Romans based a garrison here because the Danube flowing right by made transport easy.
Up until that point, no one in the Romans Football organization was aware this rule existed.
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As their empire expanded, the Romans put up lighthouses as quickly as they expanded trading routes.
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Our PCs sit in as proud a position in our homes as the Romans placed their household altars.
The Romans improved the process, inventing the fiber wick, and during the Middle Ages, beeswax candles were introduced.
Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages.
It has been affected by Africa, very strongly by the Arab world, the Normans, the Romans and the Greeks.
Master stonecarver Sandro Fiorentini is dressed in brown overalls, working with a technique that dates back to the days of the Romans.
He required Catholic schools to teach about the Holocaust, and blamed the crucifixion on the Romans rather than the Jews.
It was from these lands and the temples Jews built to God that the Romans evicted them 2, 000 years ago.
Archaeologists think they may have found evidence that Iron Age Britons were capable of building roads - before the Romans arrived.
Behind his desk, there is a large photomontage of the Second Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.
Later, the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Romans brought market economies to towns and cities throughout the western world.
The Romans celebrated Flora, the flower goddess around the first of May.
Frankie was launched like the stones the Romans flung at the Vandals.
The Gothic cavalry routed the Romans killing over 20, 000 including the Emperor.
The Romans had no qualms about quashing their enemies, big or small.
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His book is essentially a narrative history taking London from its foundation under the first wave of migrants the Romans to the present day.
The Romans, great builders and administrators in their own right, took banking out of the temples and formalized it within distinct buildings.
Before the Romans invaded, the native people there were known as Dacians.
This section was shaped by forces even more ancient than the Romans.
At the risk of over-generalization, it can be said that the Romans ran an empire and simply appropriated what other, smaller cultures created.
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And just like the Romans, these and other government projects have more to do with triumphalism than they do with adding real value.
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It was founded around 271 AD when the Romans withdrew from this region that was then the northernmost part of its declining empire.
As a schoolboy in Bavaria, he learned about the Greeks and the Romans, and thought he would study them when he grew up.
If these people wish to live in our country, then they should adopt the principle of 'doing in Rome as the Romans do'.
Ovid and Martial, among others, always taught that the Romans, even if coarser than the Greeks, knew a lot about the Ars amatoria.
It was Thatcher who insisted that 'nothing can stop the great car economy' and her ministers who announced 'the biggest road-building programme since the Romans'.
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