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ROMA
Roma or ROMA may refer to: People, characters, figures, names * Roma or Romani people, an ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas. * Roma called Roy, ancient Egyptian High Priest of Amun * Roma (footballer, born 1979), born ''Paulo Marcel Pereira Merabet'', Brazilian football forward * Roma (footballer, born 1985), born ''Juliano Laurentino dos Santos'', Brazilian football winger * Sister Roma or Michael Williams (born 1962), American drag performer and director * Roma (personification), goddess in ancient Rome Names * Roma (given name), a female given name * Roma (surname), a surname (and list of people with the name) * Roman (given name), or Roma, a male given name * Roman (surname), a surname (and list of people with the name) Places * 472 Roma, the asteroid "Roma", the 472nd asteroid registered, a main belt asteroid Australia * Roma, Queensland, a town ** Roma Airport ** Roma Courthouse ** Electoral district of Roma, defunct ** Town of Roma, defu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonia Roma
Colonia Roma, also called La Roma or simply, Roma, is a district located in the Cuauhtémoc, D.F., Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City just west of the Historic center of Mexico City, city's historic center. The area comprises two ''colonia (Mexico), colonias'': Roma Norte and Roma Sur, divided by Coahuila street. The colonia was originally planned as an upper-class Porfirio Díaz, Porfirian neighborhood in the early twentieth century. By the 1940s, it had become a middle-class neighborhood in slow decline, with the downswing being worsened by the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. Since the 2000s, the area has seen increasing gentrification. Roma and neighbouring Condesa are known for being the epicenter of trendy/hipster (contemporary subculture), hipster subculture in the city, and Roma has consequently been called the "Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Williamsburg of Mexico City". Additionally, the area rivals Polanco as the center of the city's culinary scene. Besides residential building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romani People
{{Infobox ethnic group , group = Romani people , image = , image_caption = , flag = Roma flag.svg , flag_caption = Romani flag created in 1933 and accepted at the 1971 World Romani Congress , pop = 2–12 million , region2 = United States , pop2 = 1 million estimated with Romani ancestry{{efn, 5,400 per 2000 United States census, 2000 census. , ref2 = {{cite news , first=Kayla , last=Webley , url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2025316,00.html , title=Hounded in Europe, Roma in the U.S. Keep a Low Profile , agency=Time , date=13 October 2010 , access-date=3 October 2015 , quote=Today, estimates put the number of Roma in the U.S. at about one million. , region3 = Brazil , pop3 = 800,000 (0.4%) , ref3 = , region4 = Spain , pop4 = 750,000–1.5 million (1.5–3.7%) , ref4 = {{cite web , url ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2,746,984 residents in , Rome is the list of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, with a population of 4,223,885 residents, is the most populous metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy. Rome metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber Valley. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) is an independent country inside the city boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma Airport
Roma Airport is an airport located northwest of Roma, Queensland, Australia. The airport underwent a major redevelopment completed in April 2012, replacing the original A.T. Berry Terminal with a larger, modern facility. Much of the $14 million project funded by energy and resources companies to support their operations in the area. The Royal Flying Doctor Service has one of its nine Queensland bases at Roma Airport. History The airport opened in 1949, replacing an earlier facility which had been operating since the 1920s located across town, south of the Western railway line. The town was one of the first served by Qantas, who inaugurated weekly services between Brisbane, Roma and Charleville in April 1929. With the move to the new site, the services increased to every weekday. As there was no terminal facilities on the site, from the 1960s ground handling, check-in and bookings were conducted out of the back of a Ford Falcon utility by local man Alan Berry. On 27 April 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma Tre University
Roma Tre University () is an Italian public research university in Rome, Italy. All its offices and departments are located in the Ostiense district area. Founded in 1992 by the Ministry of Public Education, under the request of several professors of the Sapienza University of Rome, it was the third public university to be established in the metropolitan area of Rome. It is the second-largest university of Rome by enrollment and one of the largest research-based institutions in the country. History The idea of founding a third university in Rome was flagged in the middle 1980s when the Ministry of Public Education formed a committee of inquiry into higher education to deal with a perceived emergency in university enrollments in Rome. After much debate, a future campus location was selected in what was a semi-industrial part of the city and it was decided that the future university be named with a number in chronological order. Roma Tre University, was formally established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town Of Roma
The Town of Roma was a local government area in the western Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The Town of Roma covered the urban area of Roma and was surrounded by the neighbouring Shire of Bungil. Today it is part of the Maranoa Region. At the 2011 census the Town had a population of 6,906 History The Borough of Roma was established in 1867. On 31 March 1903, under the ''Local Authorities Act (1902)'', the Borough of Roma became the Town of Roma. In July 2007, the Local Government Reform Commission released a report recommending a number of amalgamations of local government areas in Queensland. As a result, under the ''Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007'', on 15 March 2008, the new local government area of Roma Region was created, as an amalgamation of five previous local government areas: * the Town of Roma; * the Shire of Bendemere; * the Shire of Booringa; * the Shire of Bungil; * and the Shire of Warroo. On 26 July 2009, Roma Region was rename ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma Courthouse
Roma Courthouse is a heritage-listed courthouse at 141 McDowall Street, Roma, Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. Constructed in 1901, the courthouse is a rendered masonry building, which is still in use today. Predominately influenced by the Federation free style, it is considered a stunning example of Federation colonial architecture at its best. It is also known as Roma Court House and Roma Police Buildings. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 August 1998. History The Roma Courthouse is a rendered masonry building located on a triangular block facing McDowall Street. It was constructed between 1900 and 1901 and was designed by architect John Smith Murdoch, the Second Assistant Architect of the Queensland Works Department. The Police Buildings were completed in 1919 as the Roma police station, barracks, offices and cell block, servicing the Roma district. The Roma Police Buildings are simple single-storeyed timber buildings adjacent to the Roma Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma, Queensland
Roma is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Maranoa Region. The town was incorporated in 1867 and is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen (née di Roma), the wife of Sir George Bowen, the Governor of Queensland at the time. In the , the locality of Roma had a population of 6,838 people. Geography Roma is in the Maranoa, Queensland, Maranoa district of South West Queensland. It is situated at the junction of the Warrego Highway, Warrego and Carnarvon Highway, Carnarvon highways. It is also a major town on the Western railway line, Queensland, Western Railway Line from Toowoomba and Brisbane. It is the centre of a rich pastoral and wheat-growing district. History Mandandanji Prior to British colonisation, the Aboriginal peoples of the Mandandanji Nation occupied this region. Mandandanji language, Mandandanji (also known as Mandandanyi, Mandandanjdji, Kogai) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mata Roma
Mata Roma is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. In 2020 it was estimated to have 16,977 inhabitants. The municipality lies in the Munim River basin. See also *List of municipalities in Maranhão This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Maranhão (MA), located in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Maranhão is divided into 217 municipalities, which are grouped into 21 microregions, which are grouped into 5 mesoregions. S ... References Municipalities in Maranhão {{Maranhão-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma, Lesotho
Roma is a settlement under the Manonyane Community Council in the Maseru District of Lesotho, some 34 kilometres southeast of Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. The Roma valley is broad and fertile, and is surrounded by sandstone cliffs topped to the East by basalt mountains which provide magnificent scenery. History Founded in 1862 by Roman Catholic missionaries in the valley known as Tloutle, Roma now has three seminaries and various novitiates, and they began the institution that became the National University of Lesotho The National University of Lesotho, the main and oldest university in Lesotho, is located in Roma, Lesotho, Roma, southeast of Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. The Roma valley is broad and is surrounded by a barrier of rugged mountains which pro .... The surrounding area has become quite densely populated and is a significant residential area, recently gaining street lights on the main road. There are many dinosaur footprints in the area, some within the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma (personification)
In Religion in ancient Rome, ancient Roman religion, Roma was a female deity who National personification, personified the city of Rome and, more broadly, the Roman state. She was created and promoted to represent and propagate certain of Rome's ideas about itself, and to justify its rule. She was portrayed on coins, sculptures, architectural designs, and at official games and festivals. Images of Roma had elements in common with other goddesses, such as Rome's Minerva, her Greek equivalent Athena and various manifestations of Greek Tyche, who protected Greek city-states; among these, Roma stands dominant, over piled weapons that represent her conquests, and promising protection to the obedient. Her Amazons, "Amazonian" iconography shows her "manly virtue" (virtus) as fierce mother of a warrior race, augmenting rather than replacing local goddesses. On some coinage of the Roman Imperial era, she is shown as a serene advisor, partner and protector of ruling emperors. In Rome, the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma Street Railway Station
Roma Street railway station is a commuter and long-distance passenger train station located in the Brisbane central business district, central business district of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is the junction station for the North Coast railway line, Queensland, North Coast, Main Line railway, Queensland, Main, Gold Coast railway line, Gold Coast and North Coast railway line, New South Wales, NSW North Coast lines. The station is one of four inner city stations that form a core corridor through the centre of Brisbane. Although not easily visible to the public, the original 1873 Roma Street railway station building still exists within the modern complex and is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register. History 1800s to 1940s The construction of a railway station on Roma Street, Brisbane, Roma Street was part of a plan to extend the Main Line railway, Queensland, Main Line to Brisbane. An iron station building designed by Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer)#Freeman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
