Sentences with phrase «romans near the village»
Tacitus, the Roman historian, reports that in 9 C.E. a member of the Germanic Cherusci tribe called Arminius led a rebellion against the Romans near the village of Kalkriese in northern Germany.
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On another occasion a Roman soldier in a village near Jerusalem burned up a scroll containing the Jewish law; this time the procurator, more cautious, had the offender executed.
Mourners met at noon on Friday at the Roman Catholic church of St John the Evangelist in the village of Caol, near Fort William, where the former Liberal Democrat leader's parents had been longstanding parishioners, and his mother had played the organ and his father the fiddle.
Perched in a sleepy village near the historic town of Canterbury, the stunning 13th century property is regarded as one of the country's oldest private homes — with some parts of the cellar even dating back to the Roman period.