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Homosexuality in ancient Rome differed markedly from the contemporary West. Latin lacks words that would precisely translate "homosexual" and "heterosexual"

Relics of him were kept in the Church and Catacombs of San Valentino in Rome, which "remained an important pilgrim site throughout the Middle Ages until

Allia brook, 11 Roman miles (16 km, 10 mi) north of Rome. The Romans were routed and subsequently Rome was sacked by the Senones. According to scholar Piero

extérieure de Rome jusqu'aux guerres samnites". Histoire romaine (in French). pp. 53–60. Paris: Armand Colin. Huergon, Jacques (1993). Rome et la Méditerranée

Italian). Rome: Europa Edizioni. pp. 31–38. ISBN 978-88-6854-778-3. Dosse, François (1987). L'Histoire en miettes: Des "Annales" à la "nouvelle histoire" (in

lasted until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. By 100 BC, the city of Rome had expanded its rule from the Italian peninsula to most of the Mediterranean

Journal. 38 (6). Hinard, Francois, ed. (2000). Histoire romaine des origines à Auguste [The History of Rome from its Origins to Augustus] (in French). Fayard

establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium. During this period, Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over

of the Roman Empire (27 BC – 476 AD). A Jewish diaspora had migrated to Rome and to the territories of Roman Europe from the land of Israel, Anatolia

Orthodox Russia. The vocabulary of a "Third Rome", the "First Rome" being Rome in Italy and the "Second Rome" being Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire