NUMANTIA

noomănˈshə, ancient settlement, Spain, near the Durius (now Douro) River and north of modern Soria. Numantia played a central role in the Celt-Iberian resistance to Roman conquest. Its inhabitants withstood repeated Roman attacks from the time of Cato the Elder's campaign (195 b.c.) until Scipio Aemilianus finally took the city in 133 b.c., after an eight-month blockade, thus completing the conquest of Spain. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of Roman camps and evidence of settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.

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books on: Numantia  - 276 results

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Reflections on the Theatre
Book by Jean Louis Barrault; Rockliff, 1951
Subjects: Actors--Correspondence, Reminscences, Etc
Numantia IN 1937, Numantia . Exactly two years had passed since As I Lay, Dying . Two years...point of view of my personal life I felt the need to settle down. Numantia was a classic, but sufficiently removed from the French classical...
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Cato the Censor
Book by Alan E. Astin; Clarendon Press, 1978
Subjects: Cato, Marcus Porcius--234-149 B.C, Orators--Rome--Biography, Statesmen--Rome--Biography
...proceeding along this at least as far as Numantia, until he crossed over again towards...and of two camps at Renieblas near Numantia are to be associated with this march...by the coastal route. 46 The visit to Numantia could equally well have been an unrecorded...
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The Romans in Spain, 217 B.C.-A.D. 117
Book by C. H. V. Sutherland; Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1939
Subjects: Rome--Provinces--Spain, Spain--History--Roman Period, B.C. 218-A.D. 414
...given. 42 See Schulten, Geschichte von Numantia , p. 38 f., with map VI thereto...and V thereto; and the same writers Numantia , I, pp. 342 ff. 45 It is just possible...town Aregrada mod. Agreda, east of Numantia , and among nine other apparent town...
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The Celts
Book by Sabatino Moscati, Otto Hermann Frey, Venceslas Kruta, Barry Raftery, Miklós Szabó; Rizzoli, 1991
Subjects: Art, Celtic--Exhibitions, Civilization, Celtic--Exhibitions
Numantia Alfredo Jimeno Martinez View of the site of Numantia Spain Muela de Garray, where Numantia is situated, is a high flat-topped hill at the confluence of the Duero, Tera and Merdancho rivers, in a position dominating a wide plain...
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A History of Rome to the Battle of Actium
Book by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh; Macmillan, 1912
Subjects: Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C
...He then began a regular investment of Numantia, throwing up earthworks and diverting...witnesses of his promise. Investment of Numantia, 143 . Popilius referred both parties...But Popilius accomplished nothing, and Numantia was still untouched when he was relieved...
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journal articles on: Numantia  - 4 results

 
 
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Guy Davenport
Journal article by David Cozy; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 25, 2005
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Davenport, Guy--Works, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works
...as in the time of Pliny and Columella the hyacinth disports in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins in Numantia and while around them the cities have changed masters and names, while some have ceased to exist, while the civilizations...
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Humanism and Scholasticism in Sixteenth- Century Academe. Five Student Orations from the University of Salamanca [*
Journal article by Katherine Elliot Van Liere; Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: College students--Addresses, essays, lectures, Orations--16th century, Renaissance--Social aspects, Salamanca, Spain--16th century
...utilitati locus supersit. (1.) Aulus Gellius XVI, 1.1. Marcus Cato (the Elder) put down a revolt in the Iberian city of Numantia while serving as consul in 193 B.C. (2.) Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, I, 77. (3.) Jerome, Praefatio Sancti...
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The Battle of Vercellae and the Alteration of the Heavy Javelin (Pilum) by Gaius Marius - 101 BC
Journal article by Christopher Matthew; Antichthon, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Construction, Military history, Reforms
...the shaft and was then held in place by two rivets which passed through both the block and the tang. Heads excavated from Numantia and Telamon indicate that during the late republic the heads of some heavy pila, although not necessarily all, were constructed...
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Uprooting Nebuchadnezzar's Tree: Francis Bacon's Criticism of Machiavellian Imperialism
Journal article by Michelle Tolman Clarke; Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Charities, Christianity, Men, Military exercises
...and Thebes by creating oligarchies there; yet they lost them again. The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Carthage, and Numantia, destroyed them and did not lose them. They wanted to hold Greece as much as the Spartans had held it, by making it free...


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magazine articles on: Numantia  - 2 results

 
 
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Letters
Magazine article; New African, April 2003
...signify Tunisia and Western Libya during the Roman time. Algeria and the western part of Tunisia were collectively known as Numantia, while Morocco and parts ofAlgena were referred to as Mauretania. The landmass south of the Sahara or Musalamii (as the...
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The Tresnjak Touch: Drawing on Myth and Fable, a Much-in-Demand Director Sets His Imprint on Neglected Treasures
Magazine article by Edward Karam; American Theatre, Vol. 21, March 2004
Subjects: Theatrical directors--Biography, Theatrical directors--Interviews, Theatrical producers and directors--Biography, Theatrical producers and directors--Interviews, Tresnjak, Darko--Biography, Tresnjak, Darko--Interviews
...its absurd." And in the back of his mind is one more bruised beauty that may defy even a regional production: The Siege of Numantia by Cervantes. "It reminds me of some of the things that happened in Srebrenica in Bosnia," says Tresnjak, "when the town...


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encyclopedia articles on: Numantia  - 5 results

 
 
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Numantia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NUMANTIA nooman sh , ancient settlement, Spain, near the Durius (now Douro) River and north of modern Soria. Numantia played a central role in the Celt-Iberian resistance to Roman conquest. Its inhabitants withstood repeated Roman attacks...
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Marius, Caius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...tribune (119 b.c.) and praetor (115 b.c.) and was seven times consul. He served under Scipio Africanus Minor at Numantia and under Quintus Metellus against Jugurtha. Later, when he was commander of Roman forces against Jugurtha, he hastened...
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Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The Romans conquered E and S Spain, but met strong resistance elsewhere, notably in the north. The fall (133 b.c.) of Numantia marked the end of organized resistance, and by the 1st cent. a.d. Roman control was virtually complete. Except for the...
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Soria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...raising region. The Church of San Pedro and the palace of the counts of Gomara are the chief landmarks. Nearby are the ruins of Numantia . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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Scipio Africanus Minor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...In 142 he was censor. He was consul again (134) and went to Spain, where he ended the rebellion with the destruction of Numantia. On his return to Rome he openly rejoiced at the murder of his adoptive cousin and own brother-in-law, Tiberius Gracchus...


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