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ID: 7030347
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7030347

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire)  Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 53 33 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.8925  decimal degrees
Long: 012 29 05 E  degrees minutes   Long: 12.4850  decimal degrees

Note: Refers to the great empire that succeeded the Roman Republic and had its capital at Rome, Italy; it began when Octavius Caesar defeated Mark Antony and Egypt's Cleopatra in 31 BCE. At its greatest extent in the 1st century CE it included Europe from Spain to the Persian Gulf, Britain, the Arabian Peninsula, Asia Minor, and North Africa. It is traditionally held to end in the 4th century after its division into four parts by Diocletian, and a brief reunification under Constantine the Great from 324-395.

Names:
Roman Empire (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)
Rome (C,V,English,U,N)
Roma (C,V,Latin-P,U,N)
Roma (Italian-P,U,N)
Roman Republic and Empire (C,V,display,English,U,N)
Rome (Empire) (C,U,English)
רומא (C,U,Hebrew )
Empire Romain (C,U,O,French)
Imperio Romano (C,U,Spanish)
Impero Romano (C,U,Italian)
Rome antique (C,U,French)
Römisches Reich (C,U,German)
Ῥωμαίων βασιλεία (C,U,Ancient Greek)
Empire romain (H,O,French-P,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire)  ....  Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)

Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (preferred, C)  ............  began in 31 BCE, traditionally held to have ended in 4th century CE
historical region (C)
empire (H)
political entity (H)

Related geographic places:
capital is ....  Roma .......... (inhabited place)
..................  (World, Europe, Italia, Lazio, Roma province) [7000874]
predecessor of ....  Byzantine Empire .......... (former nation/state/empire)
..........................  (World) [7024407]
predecessor of ....  Holy Roman Empire .......... (former nation/state/empire)
..........................  (World) [7024415]
successor of ....  Roman Republic .......... (former nation/state/empire)
......................  (World) [6005021]

Sources and Contributors:
רומא..........  [IMJ]
...........  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Ῥωμαίων βασιλεία..........  [VP]
.............................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 8354456
Empire romain..........  [BHA, VP]
..........................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Empire Romain..........  [VP]
..........................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 8354456
Imperio Romano..........  [VP]
.............................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 8354456
Impero Romano..........  [VP]
..........................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 8354456
Roma..........  [VP]
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
Roman Empire..........  [BHA, FDA, VP Preferred]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 8354456
.......................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
.......................  Times Atlas of World History (1993)
Roman Republic and Empire..........  [VP]
............................................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) Accessed 07/09/2002.
Rome..........  [VP]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984)
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
Rome antique..........  [VP]
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 8354456
Rome (Empire)..........  [IMJ Preferred]
..........................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Römisches Reich..........  [VP]
.............................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 8354456
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, IMJ, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984)
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 9 July 2002; Accessed 07/09/2002.
..................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 8354456
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
..................  Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_romanum
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 9 July 2002

 

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