Roman

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Roman or Romans may refer to:

A thing or person of or from the city of Rome.

History

• Ancient Rome (9th century BC – 5th century AD)
• Roman Kingdom (753 BC to 509 BC)
• Roman Republic (509 BC to 44 BC)
• Roman Empire (44 BC to AD 476)
• Roman citizen
• Byzantine Empire (330 to 1453), also known as the "Eastern Roman Empire".
• Romioi, a self-identification of the Greek people during and after the Byzantine period
• Holy Roman Empire (c. 900 to 1806), a medieval German state in Central Europe
• Roman families Family life etc.

Geography

• Rome, the capital city of the modern state of Italy
• Roman, Bulgaria, a municipality near Pravets
• Romans-sur-Isère, in the Drôme département of France
• Roman, Romania, a city in Neamţ county
• Saint Roman in Monaco
• Romans, Ain, a town in France
• Roman, Eure, France
• Romans, Deux-Sèvres, France
• Roman, Essex, UK

Christianity

• Roman Catholic Church, a Christian church that professes the Catholic faith
• Roman Missal, a book containing prayers and readings for a Roman Catholic Mass
• Epistle to the Romans, a letter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible

Typography

• Roman type, a family of fonts
• Times New Roman, a font

Literature

• Roman or some cognate means "novel" in many European languages; in such languages, the cognates of novel mean English "novella"

Other

• Roman (film)
• Roman alphabet (Latin alphabet), the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans
• Roman architecture
• Roman army
• Roman calendar
• Roman law, the legal system of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
• Roman mythology
• Roman nose
• Roman numerals, numeral system where certain letters are given a numeral value
• Roman pot, a device used in accelerator physics
• Roman surface, self-intersecting immersion of the real projective plane into three-dimensional geometrical space
• ROMANS (jpop), Hello! Project J-pop music group
• The Romans (Doctor Who), television show
• Bernard Romans, 18th Century navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter and writer

[edit] See also

Note: the following entries are arranged in an etymological tree.

• Roma
  • Romaic
  • Romanus
    • Aromanian
    • Romagna
    • Romaine
    • Roman
      • Romanesque
    • Romand(y)
    • Romania
    • Romanian
    • Romanicus
      • Romance
    • Romano
    • Romansch

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