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Rome
Italy · 41.9028, 12.4964
From hilltop settlement to the administrative heart of a Mediterranean empire.
Historical layers
509 – 27 BCE
Republican Rome
Senate, consuls, and relentless expansion.
27 BCE – 476 CE
Imperial Rome
A city of a million people, fed by grain fleets.
Events here
44 BCEThe Assassination of Julius Caesar
Sixty senators stab the dictator perpetuo at the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March.
476 CEThe Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus and sends the imperial regalia east.
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