Waterways and Water Bodies
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settlement, port | A settlement at the third milestone of the Via Ostiensis. |
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settlement, port | Vicus Spacorum (modern Vigo) was an ancient settlement located on the Atlantic coast of Galicia. |
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garden-hortus, fountain, villa | Roman villa at Alameda, located near the modern town cemetery. It is also known as the “Finca del Moral”. |
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villa, cistern | A villa complex at the eighth mile of the Via Cassia, to which it was linked by means of a paved diverticulum. The first phase dates to the first century BCE an... |
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fountain, villa | A Roman nymphaeum dating ca. A.D. 50-55. |
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villa, cistern | The remains of a Roman villa on the Via Ostiense have been linked to Lucius Nonius Calpurnius Torquatus Asprenas. |
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river | Vindelicus/Soulgas fl. (Sorgue river) is a river of southeastern France, situated between the Alps and the Rhone river. |
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river | The modern Wertach river of Bavaria, which is a tributary of the Lech. |
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river | Vistula fl. (Vistula River) flows 1,047 km (651 miles) from the south of Poland to the Baltic Sea. Its name is first attested in the Natural History of Pliny th... |
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river | The Weser river in northwestern Germany. |
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river | An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 40 B4 Vitis? fl. |
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lake | A volcanic lake of northern Latium formed by the collapse of the Vulsini volcano. Roman sources record volcanic activity at the site as late as the second centu... |
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river | The Volturno river flows 175 km from the Apennines to the Tyrrhenian Sea at Castel Volturno. |
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river | The Vomano river in Abruzzo flows into the Adriatic Sea. |
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spring, bath | An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 21 C6 Vrnjačka Banja |
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port | Site on the Red Sea Coast in Egypt, used in the Fourth Dynasty as a port for importing turquoise and copper from Sinai. The oldest surviving papyrus from Egypt,... |
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oasis | An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 83 C5 Wadi al-Qura' |
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cave, river | The Wadi Murabba'at, known also as Nahal Darga, is a ravine in the Judean desert east of Bethlehem. Four cave sites were identified and excavated there in 1952.... |
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river | Historical water course that ran through the heart of Roman London and flowed into the modern River Thames. Completely built over since the 19th century, it exi... |
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river | An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 56 C2 Xanthos fl. |