Rome with Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City in the foreground

Rome Italy
ROMA Italy

Phone international country code 39, International City Code 6.

Vatican City Italy
Vatican City State
Stato della Città del Vaticano

Phone international Country Calling code +379
Located about two miles or 3000 meters west of Rome's center, and totally within the city of Rome, Vatican City is the Roman Catholic church city/state/country. Vatican City is a country because it issues passports, has its own Bank and has an elected Monarch leader, the Bishop of Rome, who is also the Pope. The Pope Popes is elected by full vote of the Sacred College of Cardinals by ballot. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with about 826 people and 0.44 square km or 0.17 square miles.

Vatican City's economy is supported by the sale of postage stamps and tourist mementos, fees for admission to museums, and the sale of publications, printing, the production of mosaics and the manufacture of staff uniforms. The Vatican also conducts worldwide financial activities with its own bank, Istituto per le Opere di Religione (also known as the Vatican Bank, IOR). This bank has an ATM with instructions in Latin, possibly the only such ATM in the world. Vatican City has an area of approximately 44 hectares (110 acres).

Italy Government
Governo dell'Italia

Italy from US Sources
L'Italia dalle fonti degli Stati Uniti

Rome Italy History
Storia di Roma Italia

In the first century AD, most of southern Europe and northern Africa was ruled by Roman emperors, most people in those areas lived under the emperors and Roman law.

Emperors were always men, some were good and some even were great, however many abused their position and power as emperors. Emperors had a job for life, but assassination shortened several of their lifes.

Ancient Roman society was hierarchical. Emperors sat at the top of Rome's social order. Free-born Roman citizens were divided into several classes, both by ancestry and by property. Non-citizens had different classes and legal rights, while slaves had no legal rights. Women were non-citizens, free-born women belonged to their father's social class until they married, then they joined the class of their husbands. Freed women were able to marry but were barred from marriage with senators or knights and did not join their husband's class. Female slaves were allowed to marry if their masters allowed them to. All Romans enjoyed the baths and an evening meal, however, clothes, food, homes and hobbies were products of their respective class.

By the end of the Third century the Roman Empire was split into a Western par which included Rome, and an Eastern part, each with their own augustis and/or caesares. In the West, the succession of emperors had ended in the year 476 when the last Western emperor, Romulus Augustus, was deposed by the Germanic King Odoacer, although many maintain that Julius Nepos was the last emperor and that the Eastern emperor Zeno decided not to appoint a new emperor in the West. Most accept this be the end of Antiquity and the beginning the Early Middle Ages or the Dark Ages.

Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last reigning Roman Emperor. A member of the Palaiologos dynasty, he ruled the Roman Empire from 1449 until his death in 1453 defending the capital of the Roman Empire, Constantinople.

Colosseum, Coliseum or Amphitheatre Flavio
Colosseum, Colosseo o Anfiteatro Flavio

The Colosseum in a in 1757 engraving by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (croped).

The Colosseum arena, showing the hypogeum. The wooden walkway is a new, more recent structure.

Circus Maximus
Circo Maximus

Circus Maximus Scale model in Ancient Rome

The Great Fire of Rome
Il grande fuoco di Roma

Thank you for visiting Rome Italy Information and Rome Business Information.
Grazie per la visita delle informazioni de Roma Italia.

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