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Roman or Romans may refer to:

• A thing or person of or from the city of Rome.

Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Christianity 4 Typography 5 Literature 6 Music 7 Mythology 8 People 9 Science 10 Other uses 11 See also

[edit] 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 (27 BC to 476/1453 AD)
  • Roman citizenship
  • Roman alphabet or 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 numerals, numeral system where certain letters are given a numeral value
  • Imperial cult (ancient Rome), Roman religion
• Byzantine Empire (330/476/629 to 1453), a Late Antiquity and medieval continuation of the Greek-speaking portion of the Roman Empire
  • Romaioi (Ρωμαίοι) or Romioi (Ρωμιοί), Greek-speaking population of the Eastern Empire dating to Late Antiquity (the term translates literally to "Roman")
  • Romanae or the Greco-Romans from Aetolia Acarnania that speak Romanesci
• Holy Roman Empire (c. 900 to 1806), a medieval state in Central Europe

[edit] Geography

• Roman, Bulgaria, a municipality near Pravets
• Romans-sur-Isère, in the Drôme département of France
• Roman, Romania, a city in Neamţ county
• Romans, Ain, a town in France
• Roman, Eure, France
• Romans, Deux-Sèvres, France
• Romans d'Isonzo, a town in Italy
• Roman roads
• Roman Valley, Nova Scotia
• Saint Roman, Monaco

[edit] 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

[edit] Typography

• Roman type, an upright typeface style, contrasted to italic
• Times Roman, a font
• Roman (typeface), a raster font packaged with Windows XP

[edit] Literature

• Romance (genre), a genre of Medieval French literature
• Nouveau roman, a type of French novel
• Ar-Rum, the 30th book in the Qu'ran, is sometimes translated as The Romans

[edit] Music

• Roman, Music artist and producer
• Roman, an album by the Japanese musical group Sound Horizon

[edit] Mythology

• Roman mythology

[edit] People

• Roman (name), a male given name derived from Latin Romanus
  • See the above article for persons with the given name "Roman"
• Bernard Romans, Dutch-born navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter and writer
• Valter Roman and Petre Roman, Romanian politicians
• Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer

[edit] Science

• Roman pot, a device used in accelerator physics
• Roman surface, self-intersecting immersion of the real projective plane into three-dimensional geometrical space
• Roman chamomile, a plant

[edit] Other uses

• Roman (film)
• Roman candle (firework)
• Roman chair, the exercise equipment
• Romans, a race in the Heroscape Universe
• The Romans (Doctor Who), An episode of the BBC production, Doctor Who
• Roman (vehicle manufacturer), a Romanian truck manufacturer

[edit] See also

Note: the following entries are arranged in an etymological tree.

• Roma
  • Romaic
  • Romanus
    • Aromanians
    • Romagna
      • Romagnol language
    • Romain
    • Romaine
    • Roman
      • Romanesco
      • Romanesque (disambiguation)
    • Romana (disambiguation)
    • Romand
      • Romandy
    • Romania (disambiguation)
      • Romanian
    • Romanicus
      • Romance
      • Romanic
    • Romanization (disambiguation)
    • Romano
    • Romanos
    • Romansh language
  • Rûm
    • Rumelia

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