Roman facts for kids

Roman or Romans may refer to:

• A thing or person of or from the city of Rome, Italy

History

• Ancient Rome (8th century BC – 5th century AD)
  • Roman Kingdom (753 BC to 509 BC)
  • Roman Republic (509 BC to 27 BC)
  • Roman Empire (27 BC to 476/1453 AD)
  • Roman Britain, part of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and about 410
  • Roman alphabet, the standard alphabet of most of the languages of Western and Central Europe
    • Romanization
  • 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
  • Roman mythology
• Byzantine Empire (330/476/629 to 1453), the Eastern Roman Empire
  • Romaioi (Ρωμαίοι), Greek-speaking, Orthodox population of the Eastern Roman Empire dating to Late Antiquity
  • Romaioi (Ρωμιοί), Greek-speaking, Orthodox population of the Rum-milet in the Ottoman Empire, or Greek-speaking Orthodox people today
  • Romanae or the Greco-Romans from Aetolia Acarnania that speak Romanesci
• Holy Roman Empire (c. 900 to 1806), a medieval state in Central Europe
• Roman, Bulgaria, a town and a municipality in Vratsa Province
• 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

Christianity

• Epistle to the Romans, a letter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible
• The Roman Catholic Church

Literature

• The word for Novel in many European languages.
  • Nouveau roman (lit. "new novel"), a type of French novel of the 1950s
  • Bildungsroman (lit. "formation novel"), German for a coming-of-age story
  • Künstlerroman (lit. "artist's novel"), German for a story of an artist's growth to maturity
• Romance (heroic literature), a genre of Medieval French literature
• Ar-Rum, the 30th book in the Qu'ran, is sometimes translated as The Romans
• Roman à clef, a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction

See also

In Spanish: Roman para niños