ROMAN TOWNS AND TOWN PLANNING ALEXANDR TOSS CZECH

ROMAN TOWNS AND TOWN PLANNING ALEXANDR ŠTOSS, CZECH REPUBLIC

HOW WAS ROMAN EMPIRE DIVIDED TERRITORIALLY? • ROMAN EMPIRE WAS DIVIDED IN TWO PARTS HOW WERE THE PARTS CALLED? • THE FIRST PART WAS CALLED WEST ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE SECOND PART WAS CALLED BYZANTINE EMPIRE • WHICH WERE THE PARTS? • THEY WERE PROVINCIES IN NOWADAYS GREECE, TURKEY, ITALY, FRANCE, SPAIN, CROATIA AND BRITAIN

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WHAT WERE THE MOST FAMOUS ROMAN TOWNS? • THE MOST FAMOUS TOWNS WERE: ROME IN ITALY, ATHENS IN GREECE, VINDOBONA IN AUSTRIA, CONSTANTINOPOLIS IN TURKEY AND ALEXANDRIA IN EGYPT IN WHICH TODAYS COUNTRIES ARE THEY SITUATED? • THE MOST FAMOUS TOWNS ARE IN TODAYS FOR EXAMPLE: ITALY, GREECE, TURKEY, BRITAIN AND FRANCE WHAT WERE THEIR ROMAN NAMES AND WHAT ARE THE NAMES NOW? • MOST TOWNS ARE CALLED THE SAME AS BEFORE • SOME PLACES HAVE ANOTHER NAME THEN BEFORE FOR EXAPLE: VINDOBONA-WIEN AND CONSTANTINOPOLIS-ISTANBUL

ROME, ATHENS, VINDOBONA, CONSTANTINOPOLIS

HOW WERE THE TOWNS PLANNED? HOW WERE THEY PLANNED? • THE TOWN WAS MOSTLY BUILT IN THE CONQUERED TERRITORY. THE CITY WAS PLANNED TO STAND BY THE WATER. WHAT WERE THE MOST IMPORTANT BUILDINGS AND THEIR FUNCTION? • IN ROMAN TOWNS WERE IMPORTANT BUILDINGS, FOR EXAMPLE: TEMPLES, CHURCHES, FOUNTAINS, MARKETS AND THEATRE FOR GLADIATORIAL - A COLOSSEUM • BUILDINGS SERVED FOR WORSHIP, PURCHASE AND ENTERTAINMENT • IN THE CENTRE WAS FORUM. THE MOST FAMOUS FORUM IS FORUM ROMANUM IN ROME. HOW WERE THE TOWNS PROTECTED? • TOWNS WERE PROTECTED BY WALLS, TOWERS, GATES AND SOLDIERS. THE MOST IMPORTANT WAS INFANTRY

IMPORTANT STRUCTURES AND BUILDINGS Roman aquaduct Roman walls, Roman temple, Roman bath

ROMAN INHABITANTS AND GOVERNMENT HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVED THERE? • ROME WAS THE LARGEST OF THE CITIES. THE POPULATION OF ROME MAY HAVE BE UP TO 1 MILLION PEOPLE AT ITS PEAK. OTHER MAJOR CITIES SUCH AS ALEXANDRIA, EPHESUS, CARTHAGE, AND ANTIOCH HAD POPULATIONS OF 200, 000 OR MORE. WHAT WAS THE GOVERNMENT? • THE FORM OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ROME HAS TRANSFORMED OVER THE CENTURIES FROM THE KINGDOM TO THE REPUBLIC AND FINALLY INTO THE EMPIRE.

ROMAN EMPERORS

WHERE IN THE AREA OF TODAYS CZECH REPUBLIC WERE ANY ROMAN MILITARY CAMPS? ON THE TERRITORY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC WAS A MILITARY CAMP WHICH WAS NAMED MILITARY CAMP AT MUŠOV. . NOWADAYS, IT IS A PART OF THE VILLAGE OF PASOHLÁVKY. THE FIRST EXCAVATIONS WERE IN THE 20 TH AND 21 ST CENTURY.