Historical place profile
Roma
Rome was the capital of the Roman Republic and Empire and became the enduring centre of the Roman Church. Political capital, apostolic martyrdom, episcopal succession, pilgrimage and papal government belong to different historical layers that must be kept distinct.
Historical layers
- Republican and imperial capital
- Apostolic martyrdom tradition of Peter and Paul
- Late-antique Christian basilicas and Roman episcopate
- Medieval and early-modern papal city
Church-history significance
Romans, 1 Clement, Irenaeus and Eusebius connect the city to the early Christian community and the martyrdom memory of Peter and Paul. Later papal Rome developed through basilicas, councils, curial institutions and temporal rule.
Primary and geographic sources
- Pleiades place 423025
- Romans; 1 Clement; Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.3
- Liber Pontificalis and Roman archaeological records
Map semantics
The coordinate at 41.8900311416, 12.4913630482 is a representative_point_not_boundary. It anchors the place for research and does not assert one unchanging urban, political or ecclesiastical boundary across all periods.
Catalogue record
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:423025
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:423025
- Place type
- urban area, settlement
- Precision
- precise
- Provenance
- Pleiades 423025; Barrington Atlas and urban topography records