Aemilia
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Aemilia can indicate several people and places in Classical history:
Aemilia can also mean:
- Aemilia (gens), a patrician family of Ancient RomeAncient RomeAncient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
, and the female members of this gens - Tertia Aemilia PaullaAemilia TertiaAemilia Tertia, better known as Aemilia Paulla , was the wife of Scipio Africanus , Roman general and statesman...
, third daughter of Lucius Aemilius Paullus, and wife of Scipio Africanus - Aemilia LepidaAemilia LepidaAemilia Lepida is a Roman woman belonging to the gens Aemilia. All but the first Aemilia Lepida lived in the imperial era. The name was given to daughters of men belonging to the Lepidus branch of the gens Aemilia. The first Aemilia Lepida to be mentioned by Roman historians was the former fiancee...
, any of several female members of the gensGensIn ancient Rome, a gens , plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps . The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the...
Aemilia. - Aemilia (Roman province), a late Roman provinceRoman provinceIn Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and, until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of Italy...
- Via AemiliaVia AemiliaThe Via Aemilia was a trunk Roman road in the north Italian plain, running from Ariminum , on the Adriatic coast, to Placentia on the river Padus . It was completed in 187 BC...
, a Roman road
Aemilia can also mean:
- Aemilia (moth)Aemilia (moth)Aemilia is a genus of moth in the family Arctiidae.-References:*...
, a moth genus - 159 Aemilia159 Aemilia159 Aemilia is a large main-belt asteroid. This slowly rotating, dark asteroid has a primitive carbonaceous composition.It orbits within the Hygiea family, although it may be an unrelated interloping asteroid, as it is too big to have arisen from the cratering process that most probably produced...
, an asteroid - Aemilia (1632), a Dutch warship
See also
- Amelia (disambiguation)
- Emilia (disambiguation)