The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Portus

Also known as Porto, Portus Romae

  • port
  • Roman imperial

The imperial harbor of Portus, built to serve Rome beside the older town of Ostia. It is the engineered port of Rome, not the city of Ostia itself.

Type
port
Style
Roman imperial
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 181
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The imperial harbor of Portus, built to serve Rome beside the older town of Ostia. It is the engineered port of Rome, not the city of Ostia itself.

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