HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Ganges River
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Tiber River
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Nile River
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High Rock Lake
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Tiber was once called the Albula, on account of the milky (albus) color of its water. It got the name Tiber from Tiberinus Silvius, an Alban king who perished in the river.
Detailed explanation-2: -The river rises at Mount Fumaiolo in central Italy and flows in a generally southerly direction past Perugia and Rome to meet the sea at Ostia.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Tiber flows from the Apennine Mountains through Rome and into the Tyrrhenian Sea-part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. Before the days of early Rome, the river was known as Albula, which means “white” in Latin. This name came from the milky white color of the water in the river.
Detailed explanation-4: -The National Museum of Sant’Angelo Castle. Museums. The Tiber Island. Monuments. Ponte Cestio. Monuments. Pons Fabricius. Monuments. Sant’Angelo bridge. Monuments. The Music Bridge-Armando Trovajoli. Monuments.