Aquileia

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Aquileia was an important ancient Roman city and trading hub in northeastern Italy, near the Adriatic Sea, known for its strategic military and commercial significance.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Aquileia canonical 17
Aquileia region 1
city of Aquileia 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf UNESCO World Heritage Site
ancient Roman city
archaeological site
archaeologicalFeatures amphitheatre
city walls
forum remains
river port
attackedBy Attila the Hun
connectedBy Roman road network
connectedTo Via Annia
Via Postumia
country Italy
declineCause barbarian invasions
shift of trade routes
economicRole commercial center
major trading hub
foundedAs Latin colony
foundedBy Roman Republic
foundedInYear 181 BC
heritageDesignation UNESCO World Heritage Site
knownFor archaeological remains
early Christian basilica
mosaic floors
languageHistorical Latin
locatedIn Friuli Venezia Giulia
surface form: Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Northeastern Italy
surface form: northeastern Italy
locatedNear Adriatic Sea
locatedOn Natissa River NERFINISHED
modernMunicipalityName Aquileia self-link
modernProvince Province of Udine
notableBuilding Basilica of Aquileia
originalFunction frontier fortress
military outpost
partOf Roman Empire
Roman Republic
patriarchateEstablishedInCentury 4th century
peakImportanceInCentury 4th century
populationAtPeakApprox 100000
provinceCapitalOf Roman province of Venetia et Histria
Roman province of Venetia et Histria
surface form: Roman province of X Regio Venetia et Histria
regionHistoricallyAssociatedWith Friuli
Veneto
surface form: Venetia
religiousSignificance important early Christian center
seat of the Patriarchate of Aquileia
sackedInYear 452
strategicRole base for Roman expansion into Central Europe
base for Roman expansion into the Balkans
defense against Celtic tribes
UNESCOInscriptionYear 1998
UNESCOSiteType cultural

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Aquileia
Description of subject: Aquileia was an important ancient Roman city and trading hub in northeastern Italy, near the Adriatic Sea, known for its strategic military and commercial significance.

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ballomar besieged Aquileia
Ballomar threatened Aquileia
this entity surface form: city of Aquileia
Constantine II placeOfDeath Aquileia
this entity surface form: Aquileia region
Rufinus of Aquileia residence Aquileia
Patavium connectedTo Aquileia
Cisalpine Gaul majorCity Aquileia
Aquileia modernMunicipalityName Aquileia self-link
Battle near Aquileia location Aquileia
Province of Udine contains Aquileia
Friuli containsCity Aquileia
Friuli historicalCenter Aquileia