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  2. Aegean Sea - Wikipedia

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    Aegean Sea. /  39°N 25°E  / 39; 25. The Aegean Sea [a] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some 215,000 km 2 (83,000 sq mi). [3] In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn connects to the Black Sea ...

  3. Aegon - Wikipedia

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    AEGON is one of the strategic industry partners with Duisenberg school of finance. Headquarters office. The headquarters office of Aegon is located in The Hague and designed by OTH Architects. Initially AEGON wanted to redesign only the conference rooms, but while working on it they decided to improve and redesign the full building.

  4. 14 regions of Augustan Rome - Wikipedia

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    Map of ancient Rome with the regions. In 7 BC, Augustus divided the city of Rome into 14 administrative regions (Latin regiones, sing. regio). These replaced the four regiones —or "quarters"—traditionally attributed to Servius Tullius, sixth king of Rome. They were further divided into official neighborhoods .

  5. Aegean Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Aegean Islands [a] [1] are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast. The ancient Greek name of the Aegean Sea, Archipelago ( ἀρχιπέλαγος, archipelagos ), was ...

  6. 14 regions of Medieval Rome - Wikipedia

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    The importance of this location in Medieval Rome is that it was the main output for the Aqua Virgo aqueduct, one of the few aqueducts which underwent frequent restoration works during the centuries. By its remaining active it enabled the region to survive well throughout the Middle Ages, although the change of its sources caused the water's ...

  7. Aventine Hill - Wikipedia

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    Location and boundaries Schematic map of Rome showing the seven hills and Servian Wall.. The Aventine Hill is the southernmost of Rome's seven hills. It has two distinct heights, one greater to the northwest (Aventinus Major) and one lesser to the southeast (Aventinus Minor), divided by a steep cleft that provides the base for an ancient roadway between the heights.

  8. Pyramid of Cestius - Wikipedia

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    The pyramid of Cestius (in Italian, Piramide di Caio Cestio or Piramide Cestia) is an ancient Roman Egyptian-style pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It was built as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a member of the Epulones religious corporation. [1] It stands at a fork between two ancient roads, the Via ...

  9. Temple of Hadrian - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Hadrian (Templum Divus Hadrianus, also Hadrianeum) is an ancient Roman structure on the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy, dedicated to the deified emperor Hadrian by his adoptive son and successor Antoninus Pius in 145 CE This temple was previously known as the Basilica of Neptune but has since been properly attributed as the Temple of Hadrian completed under Antoninus Pius.