The War of Actium (32–30 BC) was the last civil war of the Roman Republic, fought between Mark Antony (assisted by Cleopatra and by extension Ptolemaic Egypt) and Octavian.In 32 BC, Octavian convinced the Roman Senate to declare war on the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Her lover and ally Mark Antony, who was Octavian's rival, gave his support for her cause.

Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava KP GCB GCSI GCMG GCIE PC (21 June 1826 – 12 February 1902) was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society. In his youth he was a popular figure in the court of Queen Victoria, and became well known to the public after publishing a best-selling account of his …

A prince du sang (French pronunciation: [pʁɛ̃s dy sɑ̃], Prince of the Blood) is a person legitimately descended in male line from a sovereign. The female equivalent was princess of the blood, being applied to the daughter of a prince of the blood.The most prominent examples include members of the French royal line, but the term prince of the blood has been used in …

Grass crown – (Latin: corona obsidionalis or corona graminea), was the highest and rarest of all military decorations.It was presented only to a general, commander, or officer whose actions saved the legion or the entire army. Civic crown – (Latin: corona civica), was a chaplet of common oak leaves woven to form a crown.During the Roman Republic, and the subsequent Principate, …

Augusta (honorific), a title used for the Empresses of the Roman and Byzantine Empires; Augusta (name), a given name and surname; Roman roads. Via Augusta; Via Claudia Augusta; Science. 254 Augusta, an asteroid Augusta family, an asteroid family; Augusta, a monotypic spider genus in the family Araneidae with the only species Augusta glyphica

Marcus Tullius Cicero (/ ˈ s ɪ s ə r oʊ / SISS-ə-roh; Latin: [ˈmaːr.kʊs ˈtʊl.lʲi.jʊs ˈkɪ.kɛ.roː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on ...

King of Kings was a ruling title employed primarily by monarchs based in the Middle East.Though most commonly associated with Iran (historically known as Persia in the West), especially the Achaemenid and Sasanian Empires, the title was originally introduced during the Middle Assyrian Empire by king Tukulti-Ninurta I (reigned 1233–1197 BC) and was …

Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style. The two styles are often considered one body of classical architecture.Roman architecture flourished in the Roman Republic and to even a greater extent under the Empire, …

Pergamon or Pergamum (/ ˈ p ɜːr ɡ ə m ə n / or / ˈ p ɜːr ɡ ə m ɒ n /; Greek: Πέργαμον), also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos (Πέργαμος), was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Mysia.It is located 26 kilometres (16 mi) from the modern coastline of the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus (modern-day Bakırçay) and ...

The Eastern Roman army refers to the army of the eastern section of the Roman Empire, from the empire's definitive split in 395 AD to the army's reorganization by themes after the permanent loss of Syria, Palestine and Egypt to the Arabs in the 7th century during the Byzantine-Arab Wars.The East Roman army is the continuation of the Late Roman army of the 4th century until the …

Hadrian (/ ˈ h eɪ d r i ən /; Latin: Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus [ˈkae̯sar trajˈjaːnʊs (h)adriˈjaːnʊs]; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman municipium founded by Italic settlers in Hispania Baetica and he came from a branch of the gens Aelia that originated in the Picenean town of ...

August Schmidhuber was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, the son of a minor government official.After finishing basic military training in the Reichswehr in Ulm in 1919, he signed up for 12 years' military service on 5 May. He was initially assigned to the Schützen Regiment (rifle regiment) Number 42. From 16 June 1919 until the beginning of October, Schmidhuber served …

His Grace or Her Grace is an English style used for various high-ranking personages. It was the style used to address English monarchs until Henry VIII and the Scottish monarchs up to the Act of Union of 1707, which united the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England.Today, the style is used when referring to archbishops and non-royal dukes and duchesses in the United …