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  • Did Romanisation courses for provincial kings include lectures on gracious manners?

    A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

  • _Remarks on the written character and Romanisation_.

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • Still more curious is the influence that this development of Italian viticulture exercised on the political life of Rome; for example, in the barbarous provinces of Europe, wine was an instrument of Romanisation, the effectiveness of which has been too much disregarded.

    Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

  • Romanisation of Gaul: indeed that conquest and Romanisation of Gaul is the beginning of European civilisation; for before the Græco-Latin civilisation reached the Rhine over the ways opened by the Roman sword, the continent of Europe had centres of civilisation on the coast or in its projecting extremities, like Italy, Bætica,

    Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

  • The life of the empire was wanting: that consisted, not in eagles and proconsuls, but in order and organization, and in the development and Romanisation of society.

    Was Christ Born in Bethlehem? 1851-1939 1898

  • Such a spirit is not, favourable to true colonisation, which implies a detachment from the affairs of the mother city; and it was not by this means, but rather by the spontaneous evolution of natural centres for the teeming Italian immigrants already settled in the provinces, that the Romanisation of the world was ultimately assisted.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • The Roman Empire was a multicultural empire, when Rome invaded Britain and settled, it wasn't as if all these citizens of Rome suddenly came to live - the 'invasion' was more a Romanisation of the inidgenous culture - as it was the world over.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • So he shows Britain how to adopt Romanisation - right down to our sophisticated corrupt practices. "

    A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

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