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Floorplan of Circus Maximus. This design is typical of Roman circuses. The performance space of the Roman circus was normally, despite its name, an oblong rectangle of two linear sections of race track, separated by a median strip running along the length of about two thirds the track, joined at one end with a semicircular section and at the other end with an undivided section of track closed ...
Pages in category "Circles of the Holy Roman Empire" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle;
Each circle had a circle diet, although not every member of the circle diet would hold membership of the Imperial Diet as well. Six imperial circles were introduced at the Diet of Augsburg in 1500. In 1512, three more circles were added, and the large Saxon Circle was split into two, so that from 1512 until the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire ...
A map of the Imperial Circles as in 1560. Unencircled territories appear in white. When the Imperial Circles (Latin: Circuli imperii; German: Reichskreise) — comprising a regional grouping of territories of the Holy Roman Empire — were created as part of the Imperial Reform at the 1500 Diet of Augsburg, many Imperial territories remained unencircled.
Semicircular arch (Pianella bridge, Corse-du-Sud, 15th century) In architecture, a semicircular arch is an arch with an intrados (inner surface) shaped like a semicircle. [1] [2] This type of arch was adopted and very widely used by the Romans, thus becoming permanently associated with Roman architecture.
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The Austrian Circle (German: Österreichischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire. It was one of the four Imperial Circles created by decree after the 1512 Diet at Cologne , twelve years after the original six Circles were established in the course of the Imperial Reform .
Altare della Patria, the best-known symbol of Roman neoclassical architecture. In 1870, Rome became the capital city of the new Kingdom of Italy. During this time, neoclassicism, a building style influenced by the architecture of classical antiquity, became a predominant influence in Roman architecture. During this period, many great palaces in ...