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Ulpia Oescus (Gigen)

Oescus, Palatiolon or Palatiolum was an important ancient city on the Danube river in Roman Moesia.

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Ectabana (Hamadan)

Ecbatana was an ancient city, which was first the capital of Media in western Iran, and later was an important city in Persian, Seleucid, and Parthian empires.

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Castrum Zerzevan (Diyarbakır's Çınar)

Zerzevan Castle, also known as Samachi Castle, is a ruined Eastern Roman castle, a former important military base, in Diyarbakır Province, southeastern Turkey.

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Mogontiacum (Mainz)

The Roman castrum Mogontiacum, the forerunner of Mainz, was founded by the Roman general Drusus around 10 BC. It was an important military town throughout the Roman period. The town of Mogontiacum grew up between the fort and the Rhine.

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Mediolanum (Milan)

Mediolanum, the ancient city where Milan now stands, was originally an Insubrian city, but afterwards became an important Roman city in northern Italy.

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Iluro (Cabrera de Mar)

Ituro, now Cabrera de Mar, was an important trading town and the capital of the Laietani, an Iberian people, until Roman times.

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Icosium (Algiers)

Icosium was a Berber city that was part of Numidia which became an important Roman colony and an early medieval bishopric in the casbah area of actual Algiers.

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Hermopolis (El Ashmunein)

Hermopolis, the city of Hermes, was an important city located between Lower and Upper Egypt. A provincial capital since the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Hermopolis developed into a major city of Roman Egypt.

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Emerita Augusta (Mérida)

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

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Arelate (Arles)

The Romans took Arelate from the Ligurians in 123 BC and made it an important city by building a canal towards the Mediterranean. Present-day Arles has preserved many Roman buildings.

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Lusitania

Lusitania preserves one of the most important bodies of Mithraic evidence in Roman Hispania, centred above all on Augusta Emerita and its urban religious landscape.

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Germania superior

Along the upper Rhine frontier, Germania superior became one of the principal centres of Mithraic activity in northwestern Europe.

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Persia

Persia occupied a central place in ancient and modern interpretations concerning the origins and eastern background of Mithraic traditions.

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Britannia inferior

Along the northern frontier of Roman Britain, Britannia inferior preserves important evidence linked to military and frontier communities.

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Aegyptus

Aegyptus occupied a unique position within the Roman world where Mediterranean trade, Nile networks and ancient religious traditions intersected.

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Latium

Latium formed the political and religious centre of the Roman world where some of the most important Mithraic communities developed.

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Corsica et Sardinia

Corsica et Sardinia occupied an important insular position within the maritime networks of the western Mediterranean.

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Syria-Coele

Syria-Coele formed one of the principal urban and cultural centres of the Roman Near East where diverse religious traditions coexisted.

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Cappadocia

Cappadocia formed a major frontier and military region linking central Anatolia to the eastern limits of the Roman empire.

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Asia

Asia formed one of the most urbanised and interconnected provinces of the eastern Roman world where Mithraic cults circulated widely.

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