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Wonderful map of the length of stay in the Roman world, in years (ballpark take).
When depicting military saints from centuries ago medieval Roman artists used armor, weapons and equipment from the contemporary era, giving us priceless snapshots of Roman military at the time frescos were painted.
Roman Republic in 44 BCE, at the time of the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar whom many modern historians chronologically mark as the Emperor zero.
Kaliakra is a long and narrow headland in the southern Dobruja region of the northern Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The fortress at cape Kaliakra, in continuous use since the 4th century BCE, was the last Bulgarian fortress to fall under the onslaught of the Ottoman invaders in 1396