Ostia (disambiguation)
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Ostia is a name shared between two cities:
- Ostia Antica (archaeological site), the Roman town
- Ostia Lido or Lido di Ostia, a town of 90,000 inhabitants on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Usually, when modern Roman people say «Ostia» they refer to the modern town, not the ancient one.
It can also refer to 2 modern districts of Rome:
- ostia is also the plural of ostium