Roman
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Roman or Romans may refer to:
A thing or person of or from the city of Rome.
History
- Ancient Rome (9th century BC – 5th century AD)
- Roman Kingdom (753 BC to 509 BC)
- Roman Republic (509 BC to 44 BC)
- Roman Empire (44 BC to AD 476)
- Roman citizen
- Eastern Roman, or Byzantine Empire (330/476/629 to 1453), the later Roman Empire during the Middle Ages
- Romaioi (Ρωμαίοι) or Romioi (Ρωμιοί), a self-identification of the Greek-speaking people during and after the Byzantine period (the terms literally meaning "Roman")
- Holy Roman Empire (c. 900 to 1806), a medieval German state in Central Europe
- Roman families Family life etc.
- Roman Millet, or Millet of Rûm, the millet of the Eastern Orthodox community in the Ottoman Empire
Geography
- Rome, the capital city of the modern state of Italy
- Roman, Bulgaria, a municipality near Pravets
- Romans-sur-Isère, in the Drôme département of France
- Roman, Romania, a city in Neamţ county
- Saint Roman in Monaco
- Romans, Ain, a town in France
- Roman, Eure, France
- Romans, Deux-Sèvres, France
- Roman, Essex, UK
- Rûm ("Rome" in Turkish) and Rumelia (from Rumeli, "Land of the Romans"), regions of Ottoman Empire strongly identified with the Roman/Byzantine Empire
Christianity
- Roman Catholic Church, a Christian church that professes the Catholic faith
- Roman Missal, a book containing prayers and readings for a Roman Catholic Mass
- Epistle to the Romans, a letter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible
Typography
- Roman type, a family of fonts
- Times New Roman, a font
Literature
- a genre of Medieval French literature, see Romance (genre)
- Nouveau roman
- Roman or some cognate means "novel" in many European languages; in such languages, the cognates of novel mean English "novella"
Music
- Roman (Music), European singer-songwriter and musician
Mythology
Other
- Roman (film)
- Roman alphabet (Latin alphabet), the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans
- Roman architecture
- Roman army
- Roman calendar
- Roman law, the legal system of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
- Roman mythology
- Roman nose
- Roman numerals, numeral system where certain letters are given a numeral value
- Roman pot, a device used in accelerator physics
- Roman surface, self-intersecting immersion of the real projective plane into three-dimensional geometrical space
- Valter Roman and Petre Roman, Romanian politicians
- ROMANS (jpop), Hello! Project J-pop music group
- The Romans (Doctor Who), television show
- Bernard Romans, 18th Century navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter and writer
- Roman (vehicle manufacturer), a Romanian truck manufacturer
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Note: the following entries are arranged in an etymological tree.