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Italy's nationalist visionary Giuseppe Mazzini promoted the notion of the "Third Rome" during the Risorgimento (Italian word that means 'Resurgence'). Addressing Italian unification and the establishment of Rome as the capital, he said: "After the Rome of the emperors, after the Rome of the Popes, there will come the Rome of the people."
Rome differed from Greek city-states in allowing freed slaves to become citizens; any future children of a freedman were born free, with full rights of citizenship. After manumission, a slave who had belonged to a Roman citizen enjoyed active political freedom ( libertas ), including the right to vote. [ 157 ]
According to the History Channel, the city we know as Rome was founded in 753 B.C. It was initially ruled by kings, until around 509 B.C., when it became the Roman Republic .
This act forever severed the loyalty of Rome from its imperial progenitor, Constantinople. It created instead a rival empire which, after a long series of conquests by Charlemagne , now encompassed most of the Christian Western territories.
Piazza Venezia, one of Rome’s most famous squares, is now a construction site for a new Line C metro station. Looming over the space is machinery for digging down 85 meters and installing ...
Marcomannic Wars: Rome and the Iazyges signed a treaty under which the latter agreed to return Roman prisoners of war and supply troops to the Auxilia, ending the war. 177: Marcus named his natural son Commodus co-ruler with himself. 180: 17 March: Marcus died. Antonine Plague: The pandemic ended. 184: The Antonine Wall was abandoned by Roman ...
Rome's dominion now spanned 5.0 million square kilometres (1.9 million square miles). [2] The most significant military campaign undertaken during the Flavian period was the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD by Titus. The destruction of the city was the culmination of the Roman campaign in Judea following the Jewish uprising of 66 AD.
1929 - A separate country within Rome, Vatican City, is created by the Lateran Treaty. 1940 - EUR begins, and the nation enters World War II. 1943 - Bombing of Rome in World War II begins. 1944 - Rome is liberated by the Allied troops from the Germans. 1957 - Treaty of Rome; 1960 - Rome hosts the 1960 Summer Olympics, with great success.