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Roman Republic - The legendary founding of Rome — 753 BC. The origins and early history of Rome are very uncertain. While there are quite specific accounts of Rome's orgins and early history, these tend to be of a more mythological nature, and do not stand up as objective history when subject to modern analysis. However, Roman origin myths probably do contain aspects of the truth, a ...

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Latin is a member of the family of Italic languages, and its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, is based on the Old Italic alphabet, which is in turn derived from the Greek alphabet. Latin was first brought to the Italian peninsula in the 9th or 8th century BC by migrants from the north, who settled in the Latium region, specifically around the River Tiber, where the Roman civilization first developed. Latin was influenced by the Celtic dialects and the non-Indo-European Etruscan language in northern Italy ...

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/k/ developed palatal and velar allophones in Latin, probably due to Etruscan influence. The Romance languages and English have a common feature inherited from Vulgar Latin where C takes on either a "hard" or "soft" value depending on the following vowel. In English and French, C takes the "hard" value /k/ finally and before A, O, and U, and the "soft" value /s/ before E, I, or Y. Romance languages obey similar rules, but the soft valu ...

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As with most Etruscan inscriptions, translations have not been very trustworthy because of a lack of thorough organization on the part of the translators. One author says this [citation needed], another that [citation needed], and before long, the reader is hopelessly confused. Beyond the myths, attentive analysis and crossreferencing will help us sift through the mess to get at the heart of the Etruscan language. Currently, much work has been done [citation needed] to piece together Etruscan and these discoveries have helped to shatter previous ...

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Cippus perusinus, Cippus perusinus - Discussion of its translation, Cippus perusinus - The text

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Carthage - First Sicilian War. Carthage's success led to the creation of a powerful navy to discourage both pirates and rival nations. This, coupled with its success and growing hegemony, brought Carthage into increasing conflict with the Greeks, the other major power contending for control of the central Mediterranean. The island of Sicily, lying at Carthage's doorstep, became the arena on which this conflict played out. From their earliest days, both the Greeks and Phoenicians had been attracted to the l ...

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See also Roman military structure. Military history of ancient Rome - Roman army. "The Roman Army" is the name given by English-speakers to the soldiers and other military forces who served the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. The Roman words for the military were often based on the word for one soldier, miles. The army in general was the militia, and a commander of military operations, magister militiae. In the republic, a general might be called imperator, "commander" (as in Caesar imperator), but un ...

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The Etruscans are generally believed to have spoken a non-Indo-European language. Herodotus (c. 400 BC) records the legend that they came from Lydia (modern western Turkey). Contrarily, Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 100 BC) pronounced that the Etruscans were indigenous to Italy, calling themselves Rasenna and being part of an ancient nation "which does not resemble any other people in their language or in their way of life, or customs." Knowledge of the Etruscan language only began with the discovery of the bilingual ...

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The history of the island of Sardinia, relatively isolated from the European continent up into modern times, led to the development of a distinct Romance language, which even now preserves traces of the indigenous pre-Roman languages of the island. The language is of Latin origin like all Romance languages yet the following substratal influences are likely: Etruscan Phoenician Proto-Iberian Ligurian Adstratal influences include: Catalan Spanish Italian

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Pelasgians - In Homer. The ethnonym Pelasgoí (Pelasgians) is of unknown etymology. It first occurs in the poems of Homer: the Pelasgians in the Iliad appear among the allies of Troy. In the section known to scholars as the Catalogue of Ships, which otherwise preserves a strict geographical order, they stand between the Hellespontine cities and the Thracians of south-east Europe, i.e. on the Hellespontine border of Thrace (2.840-843). Homer calls their town or district "Larissa" and character ...

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History of Rome - Barbarian and Byzantine rule. In 476, the last Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus, a puppet (like almost all emperors of this period) in the hands of a general, his father Orestes, was deposed by a riot of barbarian troops led by Odoacer and exiled to Naples. The fall of the Western Roman Empire had little impact on Rome. Odoacer and later the Ostrogoths continued, like the last emperors, to rule Italy from Ravenna. Meanwhile, the Senate, even though long since stripped of wider powers, cont ...

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The Sardinian language is one of the principal elements of Sardinian cultural heritage, and there is great activity of late dedicated to studying the language and acknowledging its importance. The recognition of the Sardinian language as a characteristic ethnic element is supported not only by independentist movements, but is also supported by a wide percentage of local population as a whole, as well a ...

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In Unicode the capital C is codepoint U+0043 and the lowercase c is U+0063. The ASCII code for capital C is 67 and for lowercase c is 99; or in binary 01000011 and 01100011, respectively. The EBCDIC code for capital C is 195 and for lowercase c is 131. The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "C" and "c" for upper and lower case respectively. ...

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Although Latin was once the universal academic language in Europe, in recent years it has been supplanted by the study of many other languages; it is a requirement in relatively few places, and in some schools is not even offered. However, in Italy, Latin is still compulsory in secondary schools such as the Liceo Classico and Liceo Scientifico, which are usually attended by people who aim to the highest level of education. In Liceo Classico, ancient Greek is also a compulsory subject. In France, Latin is found in the Lyc ...

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The cities that composed the Etruscan Dodecapoli or league of "twelve cities" has no completely authoritative roster. Those Etruscan cities most often included (with their more familiar Latin and Italian equivalents) are: Arretium (Arezzo) Caisra (Caere or modern Cerveteri) Clevsin, (Clusium or modern Chiusi) Curtun (modern Cortona) Perusna (Perugia) Pupluna (Populonium) Veii Tarchna (Tarquinii or modern Tarquinia-Corneto) Vetluna (Vetulonia) Felathri (Volaterrae or modern Volterra) Velzna (Volsinii, presumed ...

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Sardinian has the following consonant phonemes (according to Blasco Ferrer, today perhaps the most relevant expert in Sardinian language): Sardinian language - Plosives. /p/ /b/ /f/ /t/ /d/ /ɖ/ (retroflex d) /ɟ/ a voiced palatal plosive > /g/ /k/ /g/ Sardinian language - Fricative. /θ/ like English TH in thing, an unvoiced interdental fricative (now no longer ...

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The Sardinian language can be divided into the following main dialect groupings separated by isogloss bundles: Sardinian proper, uses articles derived from the Latin IPSUM Northern, -- sas limbas = the languages; sas abbas = the waters -- for example the dialect of Nuoro Central, -- is limbas = the languages; is abbas = the waters -- for example the dialect of Samugheo Southern, -- is linguas = the languages; is acuas = the waters -- for example the dialect of ...

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Roman Republic - Early Republic. Lucretia Lucius Junius Brutus Cincinnatus Appius Claudius the Censor Samnite wars Punic wars, Carthage, Hannibal and Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major Scipio Aemilianus Cato the Censor Macedonian wars Roman Republic - Late Republic. Ahenobarbus family Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus Gaius Marius and Luciu ...

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Those who subscribe to an Italic foundation of Rome, followed by an Etruscan invasion, typically speak of an Etruscan “influence” on Roman culture; that is, cultural objects that were adopted at Rome from neighboring Etruria. The prevalent view today is that Rome was founded by Etruscans and merged with Italics later. In that case Etruscan cultural objects are not influences but are a heritage. The main criterion for deciding whether an object originated at Rome and travelled by influence to the Etruscans, or descended to the Roma ...

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Military history of ancient Rome - Patterns of Roman wars. The first Roman wars were wars of expansion and defence, aimed at protecting Rome itself from neighbouring cities and nations by defeating them in battle. This sort of warfare characterized the early Republican Period when Rome was focused on consolidating its position in Italy, and eventually conquering the peninsula. Rome first began to make war outside the Italian peninsula in the Punic wars against Carthage. These wars, starting in 264 BC saw Rome bec ...

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Charlie represents the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In international Morse code the letter C is DahDitDahDit: - · - · In Braille the letter C is represented as ⠉ (in Unicode), the dot pattern, XX .. .. C - Computing. In Unicode the capital C is codepoint U+0043 and the lowercase c is U+0063. The ASCII code for capital C is 67 and for lowercase c is 99; or in binary 01000011 and 01100011, respectively. See also:

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The site was too well-chosen to let it go to waste, however, and a new city grew up there, eventually becoming the second largest city in the western half of the Roman empire. By the late 2nd century, Carthage was the center of the Roman province of Africa, with a population of 500,000 people. It briefly became the capital of an usurper, Domitius Alexander, in 308-311. Carthage also became a centre of early Christianity. Tertullian rhetorically addresses the Roman governor with the fact that the Christians of Carthage that just yester ...

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