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Roman Empire

(Encyclopedia) Roman Empire: see Rome; Byzantine Empire; Holy Roman Empire.

Romanesque architecture and art

(Encyclopedia) Romanesque architecture and art, the artistic style that prevailed throughout Europe from the 10th to the mid-12th cent., although it persisted until considerably later in certain…

Romani

(Encyclopedia) Romani or RomanyRomaniboth: rŏmˈənē, rōˈ– [key], people known historically in English as Gypsies and their language. 1 A traditionally nomadic people with particular folkways and a…

Romania

(Encyclopedia) CE5 RomaniaRomaniarōmānˈēə, –yə [key] or RumaniaRomaniar&oomacr;– [key], republic (2015 est. pop. 19,877,000), 91,699 sq mi (237,500 sq km), SE Europe. It borders on Hungary in…

Romanian language

(Encyclopedia) CEE Romanian language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). It is spoken by about 22 million people…

Romanian literature

(Encyclopedia) Romanian literature, the literature of Romania. Until the 16th cent. most writing by Romanians was in Slavonic. In 1541 a catechism in Romanian was issued at Sibiu, and from 1560…

Romanic

(Encyclopedia) Romanic: see Romance languages.

Roman law

(Encyclopedia) Roman law, the legal system of Rome from the supposed founding of the city in 753 b.c. to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in a.d. 1453; it was later adopted as the basis of modern…