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Ravenna is the location where Lionel, the protagonist of Mary Shelley 's post-apocalyptic novel The Last Man, comes ashore after losing his companions to a howling storm in the Aegean Sea. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) wrote a poem Ravenna in 1878.
Sep 19, 2024 · Accessed 1 November 2024. Ravenna, city, Emilia-Romagna regione, northeastern Italy. The city is on a low-lying plain near the confluence of the Ronco and Montone rivers, 6 miles (10 km) inland from the Adriatic Sea, with which it is connected by a canal. Ravenna was important in history as the capital of the Western Roman.
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Mar 3, 2002 · Ravenna became a boom town. Then, something like 400 years later, came the second stroke: with Rome at its last gasp and the barbarians at the gates, Emperor Honorius moved his court from Milan to ...
Built between the 5 th and the 6 th century a.D., they testify a period of greatness, during which Ravenna — crossway between the East and the West — became three times capital. As soon as you visit the Unesco monuments, you will see the beauty that in a remote past inspired many poets and visitors. The sparkle of the golden mosaics and the ...
In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary - Ravenna. From then until 751 AD, Ravenna was first the capital of the Western Roman Empire, then that of the immense kingdom of Theoderic the ...
Ravenna , City (pop., 2001 prelim.: 138,204), northeastern Italy. It is located inland from the Adriatic Sea, with which it is connected by a canal. It was the capital of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century ce and of the Ostrogothic kingdom and Byzantine Italy in the 6th–8th centuries. Ravenna’s art and architecture reflect a fusion ...
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Ravenna continued its seemingly unstoppable rise during Theoderic's regency seeing a cultural and economic heyday that resulted in the origin of some of the world-famous mosaics. The town also became the stronghold of the Italian salt trade. The Eastern Roman Empire conquered Ravenna after Theoderic's death making Ravenna its outpost.
