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Also Known As	Aquae Cumanae • Baia

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Topics

Pompeii Herculaneum Magna Graecia Capua Alba Longa Ostia Paestum Sybaris Campus Martius Praeneste

Italy

Roman expansion in Italy from 298 to 201 bce

Roman Republic

ancient state [509 bce-27 bce]

Vairano Patenora: castle

Campania

region, Italy

Key People

Hadrian

Hadrian

Roman emperor

Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Roman official [died 23 BCE]

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Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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