Emilia (region)
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Emilia is a geographic or historical region of northern Italy. It approximately corresponds to the western and the north-eastern part of the administrative region of Emilia-Romagna, while broader defi
Panorama view of Bologna, Emilia's largest city
Emilian part (yellow) of Emilia-Romagna
Roman Italy
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Roman Italy is the period of ancient Italian history going from the founding and rise of Rome to the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire; the Latin name of the Italian Peninsula in this perio
Emilia (region)
…by the consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in 187 BCE to connect Rimini with Piacenza. The name was transferred to the district (which formed the eighth Augustan region of Italy) as early as the time of Martial, in popular usage. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries Aemilia was frequently named as a district under imperial judges…
Northern and southern section of Italia under Augustus and successors
The Tropaeum Alpium, The Victory Monument of the Alps, La Turbie, France, marked the Augustan border between Italy and Gaul.
The "Kingdom of Italy" of Theodoric the Great in 535 AD