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Histros/Histria (Antiquity)
Author(s) : Zahariade Mihail (2/4/2008)
For citation: Zahariade Mihail, "Histros/Histria (Antiquity)", 2008,Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Black SeaURL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=10715>
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basilica In ancient Roman architecture a large oblong type building used as hall of justice and public meeting place. The roman basilica served as a model for early Christian churches.
emporion, the Places where trade was conducted, usually small settlements of urban character on the borders or along the coasts and the commercial routes. With the same term are characterized the trade districts, the markets outside the walls of a city and/or settlements being themselves trade centers.
proconsul, -lis A quite high ranking official, vir spectabilis according to the rank of the senate, who was inequable only to the Domestikos of the Scholae and to the Magister Militum per Orientem. The proconsul usually served as a governor of the Imperial provinces (i.e. in Asia Minor the provinces of Asia and Cappadocia). The office was demoted from the 9th century onwards and the term was in use until the 12th century meaning a dignity.
thermae Building complexes dated in the Roman Period housing the public baths. Within the building there were three rooms, the frigitarium, the tepidarium and the caldarium and several other facilities rooms. The Roman bath-houses were also used as meting places and they often included a palaestra and a gymnasium.
1. Identification of the city of Histria
1.1. Sources
1. 2. Name and Position
2. History
2. 1. Prehistory
2. 2. Archaic period
2.3. Classical Period
2. 4. Hellenistic period
2.5. Early and Late Roman Period
3. Economy
3. 1. The town economy
3. 2. The economy in the territory
4. Burials and cults
4. 1. Necropoleis
4. 2. Cult
5. Monuments and finds
6. History of investigation
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